Here’s a handy list of all the summer reads mentioned by all the notable readers in this series. Cut it out and slip it into your wallet, bring it to your next book club, or just stick it on your fridge. The next time you’re looking for something new to read, you’ll have a good starting point.
- 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports, by Kostya Kennedy
- An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
- Being of Power, by Baron Baptiste
- Brooklyn Dreams, by J.M. DeMatteis
- Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy, by Martin Lindstrom
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky
- Daniel O’Thunder, by Ian Weir
- Dear Life, by Alice Munro
- Eat to Live, by Dr. Joel Fuhrman
- Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemmingway
- Islandia, by Austin Tappen Wright
- La plaisanterie, by Milan Kundera
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien
- MadAddam, by Margaret Atwood
- Martin Luther King, JR. on Leadership, by Donald T. Phillips
- Martini Regrets, by Phyllis Smallman
- Memories of the Old Plantation Home, by Laura Locoul Gore.
- Men at War, compiled by Ernest Hemingway
- Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit
- Mortimer, by Robert Munsch
- Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
- One Summer: America 1927, by Bill Bryson
- Punishment in Disguise, by Kelly Hannah-Moffat
- Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, by Michael Moss
- Superman: Red Son, by Mark Millar
- The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron
- The Bullpen Gospels, by Dirk Hayhurst
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
- The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng
- The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
- The Kind Mama, by Alicia Silverstone
- The Massey Murder, by Charlotte Gray
- The Orenda, by Joseph Boyden
- The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain
- The Royal Ballet: 75 Years, by Zoë Anderson
- The War that Ended Peace, by Margaret MacMillan
- This Is How, by Augusten Burroughs
- Three Day Road, by Joseph Boyden
- What To Expect When You’re Expecting, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
- What to Listen for in Mozart, by Robert Harris
- Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel