It's summer, and it's Sunday, and this is Opera Chic's reading list for the season: 12 books, 12 weeks.
Nonfiction:
Larry Tye, Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
Mary Beard, The Roman Triumph
Timothy Snyder, The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
Maurice Peress, Dvorak to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America's Music and Its African American Roots
Rick Bass, Why I Came West: A Memoir
John Rosselli, Music and Musicians in Nineteenth Century Italy
Fiction
Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs
Jessica Duchen, Songs Of Triumphant Love
The Lulz
David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
The Heavy Stuff
Franz Kafka, Dearest Father
Tori Spelling, Mommywood
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition (NYT story here)