Claudia’s Five Summertime Books

It's hot out there. Perfect books for a sultry, sweltering July.

Love In The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Random House, $14.95)

State of Wonder by Anne Patchett (HarperCollins, $15.99)

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (HarperCollins, $14.99)

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (HarperCollins, $14.99)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Random House, $15.00)

Claudia Vesterby, July 2012