Qasim Rashid

Author, 'The Wrong Kind of Muslim'

The Wrong Kind of Muslim fights back and says enough is enough. This book is a call to unite those of all faiths and of no faith to conquer the common enemy that is oppression of conscience -- to conquer terrorism.

Anne Margaret Daniel

Professor

A new memoir has begun in the Believer magazine, with the first installment just published. It's by Robert Atwan, writing as "Thomas Buchanan." Yes, that Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, Nick's Yale frenemy, Gatsby's nemesis.

K.J. Wetherholt

Executive Editor, International Journal of Media and Information Policy (MIPJ)

With the recent prevalence of Kindle, Nook, and other digital reading devices, short fiction has started to return as an acceptable, and salable form, in fact bringing back the form with a power and a popular respectability it has not had for some time.

Howard G. Buffett

President, Howard G. Buffett Foundation

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons. But I had an "aha moment" when I realized that this applies not just to farmers like me but to all of us.

Chris Kelly

Writer, 'Real Time with Bill Maher'

The bad guys inThe Eye of Moloch seem to be behind a huge domestic spy program to learn everything about everyone and take away their freedom. If Glenn Beck's against it, it can't be all bad.

Food Riot

Come for the story, stay for the food.

Jesse Kornbluth

Editor of HeadButler.com

I devoured this book. Inhaled it greedily, as if I'd found a diary on Central Park South. At first, my pleasure was mean-spirited: with every passing day, I have less sympathy for mega-lawyers and bankers and their wives.

Stacey Alcorn

Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Attorney, Marathoner and Mom

As I wish you bon voyage to your unknown and exciting future, I have compiled fourteen of the greatest assets I accumulated over the eighteen years since I sat amongst the throngs of college graduates contemplating my own future; books.

Geri Spieler

Investigative journalist, research director and Internet research teacher

humanitarian worker Jessica Buchanan endured this reality of imminent death during her three-month kidnapping by Somali pirates. Her book describes in amazing detail, day by day, minute by minute, her horrific ordeal.

Scott Porch

Culture Writer

Film producer Lynda Obst's career has had more twists and turns than a big-budget action movie -- which is not the sort of movie she makes.

Leah Singer

Author, LeahsThoughts.com

Most people living in the United States in 2009 would agree that was not the time to start a new company.

Katie DiBenedetto

AOL Account Manager, writer, book lover

I no longer have my school newspaper or club basketball team to meet new people and enjoy my hobbies. So, I decided to take a writing class in NYC.

Meg Waite Clayton

Bestselling Novelist, 'The Wednesday Sisters' and 'The Wednesday Daughters'

If you don't know where the English Lakes are, pull out your trusty map of England and look as far north and west as you can. (Go too far, and you'll end up in Scotland.) To give you an idea of just how beautiful the Lakes are, read this section of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Catherine McKenzie

Author of 'Spin,' 'Arranged,' 'Forgotten'

Ah, summer. I believe it is finally here, and so I thought I'd put together a list of books I'd be reading this summer if I hadn't already read them. Trust me, each of these books is a pure, page-turning pleasure and beautifully written to boot. Not to be missed.

Steven Raichlen

Grilling Authority, www.barbecuebible.com

Salt. It may be the only food we eat that starts as a rock. Reason enough to check out this book and to try this recipe.

Michael Giltz

Freelance writer

An unattractive cover is the only flaw in this otherwise thoroughly gripping, melodramatic true story of one of the most famous circus performers of all time.

Kyle Weiss

20-year-old founder of FUNDaFIELD

Strictness in school literature requirements and lack of breadth and in permitted genres to choose from for said requirement is one of the biggest problems with education in America.