25 Books You Can't Put Down

By Cathleen Medwick

Go on, take what you need. A perfect mystery, a mouthful of poetry…O serves up a smorgasbord of the summer's best reads.

Eye of My Heart edited by Barbara Graham

320 pages; Harper

Among the doting, self-doubting grandmothers in editor Barbara Graham's spry and unsentimental anthology Eye of My Heart (Harper) are Abigail Thomas, who relishes her late-life indolence, and Molly Giles, who watches her spoiled-rotten granddaughter with a mixture of irritation and awe ("Annika at three knows what she likes and doesn't like, and she doesn't like me"). Truth-telling with dollops of love.

Excerpt: Read an exclusive essay from Eye of My Heart

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