Potential Book for 2010

Of course, just when I think I've settled on the 10 books for next year another one comes to mind! I've had this book in the 'reading basket' next to my bed for several months. It's A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. The author is Christopher Benfey. By next year, it will probably be available in paperback. I'm thinking of pairing it with Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture by Michael Kammen. So I'm going to add it to the list and make these two books the September books, so we can try to read both of them over the summer!