Millennial Summer Reading FavoritesIt's summertime, the living is easy, and the sun will be up for hours and hours. What better time to catch up on some great reading? From Jackie Collins to Michael Palin to Norman Podhoretz, our Summer Reading Store features writers to suit every taste.
Whether you're on a long, hot
drive or under a cool umbrella, it's summertime and
your ears deserve a treat. Laugh yourself silly with
the madcap American in Paris
David
Sedaris, encounter scary characters in
Beowulf and Mario
Puzo's Mafia epic
Omerta, join Janet
Evanovich's bounty-hunter heroine in
Hot
Six, and fall under the spell of
Harry
Potter. See more suggestions in our
Audiobooks summer
listening list.
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Biographies
This summer, get a
life! You've got quite a lot to choose from: the bad-yet-great Mayor Daley of
American
Pharaoh, Judith Krantz's days of
Sex and
Shopping, the Tahitian seafaring memoir
The Water In
Between, tales of
madness, and the Marx
Brothers'
Monkey
Business. See more suggestions in our
Biographies summer reading
list.
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Children's Books
When you're seeking books for
kids, it's wise to buy a book worth reading more than
once. Check out the buried treasure in the Newbery
Medal-winning summer-camp tale
Holes,
or Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's haunted-house yarn
Jade
Green: A Ghost Story. Discover a
14-year-old counterpart to Bridget Jones in
Angus,
Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, or
pick up the 35th-anniversary edition of
The
Phantom Tollbooth, with Maurice
Sendak's tribute. See more suggestions in our
Children's Books
summer reading list.
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Cooking, Food & Wine
Next to eating, there's probably
nothing more satisfying than reading about food. While
most hard core foodies will happily while away their
summer by leafing through cookbooks, sometimes a
little variety is called for--say, a good yarn like
Kitchen
Confidential or a classic by
M.F.K.
Fisher or
Laurie
Colwin--to spice things up. See more
suggestions in our
Cooking, Food
& Wine summer reading list.
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Entertainment
Here's what's fun to
read in the sun, from the latest blockbuster books starring
Mel Gibson,
X-Men, and
Bullwinkle to deeply
personal tomes by or about
Groucho Marx,
David Sedaris, and
Roger Ebert. See more
suggestions in our
Entertainment summer reading
list.
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History
Even if you can't get away this
summer, these great history books will take you around
the world--from
Lexington
Green to the
Chosin
Reservoir, from a
tiny
boat in the Pacific Ocean to a
big
top in Hartford, Connecticut, and from the
cramped quarters of the
USS
Monitor to the
skies over
Great Britain. See the rest of our
History summer
reading list.
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Take a cool,
refreshing plunge into another world this summer--the colliding-culture milieu
of Zadie Smith's brilliantly funny
White Teeth,
Maeve Binchy's family-secret-filled
Tara Road,
or Jeffrey Lent's runaway bestseller
In the Fall.
Hit the high seas with
Patrick O'Brian or share
high times with
Tom Robbins and
Christopher Buckley. See
more suggestions in our
Literature & Fiction summer reading
list and our list of hot
Literature & Fiction
paperbacks.
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Mystery & Thrillers
Better turn on a fan--thrillers
like
Hot
Six and
Hot
Springs may not give you much chance to
cool off. Cavort with the bad and the beautiful in
Lethal
Seduction, get a fast Ludlum fix with
The
Hades Factor, or solve a crossword
puzzle to find the murderer in
Two
Down. See more of our Mystery &
Thrillers summer reading in
hardcover
and
paperback.
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Nonfiction
The ultimate fantasy
is a summer free to read the best books about real events, from
libertine-turned-conservative Harry Stein's witty
How I Accidentally Joined
the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to Jesse Ventura's two-fisted
I Ain't Got Time to
Bleed. Live high on the hog by reading
Hell's
Angel, go ho-ho over
Bobos in
Paradise, and discover how one visionary changed the face of
America in
A Clearing in the
Distance. See more suggestions in our
Nonfiction summer reading
list.
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Romance
If you can't get
enough of sunny days and steamy nights, you'll find plenty between the pages of
romance blockbusters like
Heartbreaker,
Midnight in Ruby
Bayou, and
The Heir.
Jemima J
takes its heroine on a funny cyber-romp, while
If Only It Were
True explores a romance between a guy and a ghost--sort of. See
more of our
Romance summer
reading.
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Science Fiction & Fantasy
Like to read SF short
stories at the beach? You can't go wrong with
The Year's Best Science
Fiction. If you're a Star Wars fan, you
need to read
Star Wars: Rogue
Planet. If you prefer fantasy, try Charles de Lint's
Forests of the
Heart, which pits the old gods of Ireland against the North
American manitous. Or spend a sunny afternoon chuckling with Terry Pratchett's
The Fifth
Elephant. See more suggestions in our
Science Fiction & Fantasy summer
reading list.
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Travel
Summer's here, and it's time for a
change of scene--even if it's only in your
imagination. Get a feel for life
under the
Spanish sun, globetrot with
Paul
Theroux, go Down Under in
Australia, take a ride (along with
the PBS show) on
Great
American Rail Journeys, and read the
inside scoop on Mickey's place in
The
Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World.
See more suggestions in our
Travel summer
reading list.
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