Whether lounging on the beach, sipping icy beverages poolside, or retreating into the blissfully air-conditioned depths of the indoors, there’s something truly excellent about reading in the summertime. You have to do something with the extended daylight, anyway, right? I asked the rest of the LT staff to help me compile a list of our favorite summer reads for 2014. Check them out!
» List: Summer Reads 2014—Add your own here!
Tim
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Chocky by John Wyndham
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
- My wife’s novel (drafts)
- Terrible science fiction. Why is so much of it so bad?
Abby
- The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
- The Quick by Lauren Owen
- The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
Kate
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
- Texts from Jane Eyre by Mallory Ortberg
Mike
- Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
- Dangerous Women by George R. R. Martin
- Wild Mammals of New England by Alfred J. Godin
Chris C.
- A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
- Machine Learning with R by Brett Lantz
- Head First Statistics by Dawn Griffiths
KJ
- Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown
- The United States vs Pvt. Chelsea Manning by Clark Stoeckly
- The Odyssey by Homer
Loranne
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
- Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
- Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson
Jon
- Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
- The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 by Mark Twain
- Transit by Anna Seghers
Kirsten
- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Matt
- The Lion by Nelson Demille
- Transfer of Power by Vince Flynn
- 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Eddy
- Scorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
More?
What are your favorite summer reads? Add yours to our list, and join us on Talk!
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I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Matchmaker by Elin Hilderbrand
The Guernsey Lieterary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
“The Poison Pen” by Marjorie Owen
“The Kill Box” by Chris Stewart
“The Last Promise” by Richard Paul Evans.
1. Shield of Winter by Nalini Singh
2. Rashi’s Daughters: Joheved by Maggie Anton
3. Halfstrike by Jean Johnson
4. Pillar of Fire by Judith Tarr
Thanks to Kate and Kirsten who produced helpful lists of summer books. I think some of the other contributors didn’t understand the assignment.
Summer Books:
Love Story with Murders
A Colder War
In the Blood
I resist the notion that there are some books that are better in summer, because they’re “vacations” somehow. Blech! I don’t need a vacation from “hard” books. Any book worth reading is a summer book.
For Tim: I don’t think that’s what you are really saying. What I hear is that you believe there is no such thing as summer books period. So why respond to the topic at all?
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