Summer Reading List
By Tom Teicholz at 23 July, 2008, 4:29 pm
I’m always getting asked what I’m going to read this summer, or more to the point what others should be reading:
Here’s a list of some books I hope to tackle this summer in hardback and paper and others I am recommending as part of the mix.All are novels unless noted otherwise
Unaccustomed Earth by Jumpha Lahiri (Knopf)
Lahiri writes so beautifully — hard to imagine this won’t be satisfying — but it’s something I want to savor rather than rush through.
Shining City by Seth Greenland
Can’t a brother plug his friends’ work? particularly when it’s this good, this funny and well-written (at least that’s what I hear — now I have to read it myself.
Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O’Neil (Pantheon)
This book has received so much buzz, I just want to check it out to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be… that being said I’m looking forward to it — every so often a book comes out of nowhere (and when I say nowhere I mean someone dutifully toiling on his/her writing for years but finally breaking through) and you want to support them.
The Spies of Warsaw: A Novel by Alan Furst (Random House)
Furst does the atmospherics so well, it’s always a pleasure to revisit his mittleleuropa denizens
The Tender Bar: A memoir by J. R. Moehringer (Hyperion) (thought I’d read this last summer; never got around to it).
City of Thieves: A Novel by David Benioff (Viking) He wrote the 25th Hour; he’s married to Amanda Peet, should I begrudge him his success — no, instead I’ll just read his new novel.
Atmospheric Disturbances: A Novel by Rivka Galchen (FSG) This has also been receiving rave reviews. I’m actually taking it away with me this weekend.
Here are some more recommendations (without direct links):
bangkok haunts John Burdett (Vintage). The third and some critics say the best in Burdett’s Bangkok based detective series.
Away by Amy Bloom (Random House). Missed this first time around, Want to read in now in paper.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (didn’t read it last year) now it’s in paper
The Post Office Girl by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Classics) (and for those who’ve never read it I recommend his memoir “The world of Yesterday”
Things Fall Apart China Ahuebe (never read it but turns up on every list of best 100 novels every written).
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