Adult summer reading

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are a bunch of illiterate losers.

Why? Just because we don't consider War and Peace light summer reading?? If you don't have anything to contribute, go away.

Summer reading doesn't have to be light, just interesting. I read Anna Karenina last summer and loved it way more than when I read it in college. I'm listening to it on audiobook right now and it's wonderful. I'm looking forward to W and P but I will probably listen to the audio version instead of actually reading it.

[Anonymous]

To me, summer reading is light and easy and entertaining but not crap. I read a lot of serious literature but that's not usually what I want in the summer, by the pool.

A couple of suggestions:

1. The Hunger Games trilogy. Gets dark by the third book but they fly by and are good, fun reads.
2. Bossypants by Tina Fey. She's hilarious but also insightful about a lot of things from being a woman in the workplace to raising children.
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett - if you haven't read it yet, it's a must read, I think. Wonderful female characters and very easy but also mostly well-written. Not great literature or anything but good.
4. I love anything by Julia Glass, though I haven't read her most recent book. Her books tend to be inter-connected stories of families and friends. Nothing terribly awful happens to anyone but they are thoughtful and well-written characters that I enjoyed reading.
5. One Day by David Nicholls. It's sort of When Harry Met Sally in book form, spans 20 years or so from the late 80s until the present. Light but well-written.

[Anonymous]

Kate Griffin's "Madness of Angels" series is great if you're into modern urban fantasy. She's British and writes about a sorcerer in modern-day London who works with the magic of the sodium light and the Underground rather than the sunrise and the fields. Really good stuff. The first book is A Madness of Angels.

[Anonymous]

I recommend almost all of the books by the author Sandor Marai, but especially 'Embers' 'Portraits of a Marriage' 'Esther's Inheritance' 'Casanova in Bolzano' etc.

Have fun reading!