In the new novel by Sue Halpern , a young woman named Sunny gets busted for stealing a dictionary and a judge sentences her to work as a volunteer at a library in the small town of Riverton, New Hampshire. This “Riverton” is not the actual “Riverton,” New Hampshire but a fictional one that has fallen on hard times. Summer Hours at the Robber’s Library is Sue Halpern’s seventh book. She spoke with NHPR's Peter Biello. Sue Halpern's Top Five Reading Recommendations: Halpern writes as a preface to her recommendations: "I am an eclectic—which is to say undisciplined—reader. For my work as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books , I am often reading books I might not otherwise choose to spend time with, not because they aren’t good, but because they are academic and dense (but important). So when I’m not doing that, I crave great fiction and non-fiction. In that, my choices are not unlike what happens when I go to the library: they are random and offer the joy of serendipity."