What are you going to read over the summer?

I just finished Seveneves by Neal Stephenson.

There are nine books currently on the bedside table that need to be finished, so that is the summer goal. I wouldn’t recommend any of them to a fellow reader unless they expressed desire on the topic.

Would you provide us with some genres and specific books that you enjoy? It might help.

Worthless by Aaron Clarey and the math book by Clifford A. Pickover.

Well, I’m working my way through The Crusades. Fascinating insight into the Middle Ages. Fascinating insights into the Christian religion as it evolved.
Also, it was written in 1965 when people had much longer attention spans and a better vocabulary. Thick book, small print.

@talljasperman… I have Pickover’s Mazes for the Mind from ‘92. All of the computer shit is dated but the mental exercises are still outstanding.

Maps, lots of maps. I plan on taking a sabbatical from my life of decadence.
Basically, i’m going to walk the earth #pulpfiction #kungfu

I am re-reading a book I read about 18 years ago, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson. I loved it then and I am looking forward to reading it again.

It’s interesting to read a book from one age perspective to another. Laura Ingalls Wilder is a good example. Read her books over and over as a kid, and so totally identified with her adventures.

Read them again as an adult, who’d come through a divorce and had 3 kids of my own…and I felt SO SORRY for HER MOTHER! OK, I know Dad was Michael Landon, and he’s all nice and hot, but did he REALLY have to put them through all of that??

@Dutchess_III Ha. I thought the same thing when I read the Little House books as an adult (minus the Michael Landon part).

I’ve got about 25–30’ of stacks of mostly modern books I want to read. No rhyme or reason. Fiction, nonfiction. Biography, autobiography. I just like to read.

I’m going to cram as much of the Star Wars expanded universe into my brain as possible. The original goal was to finish ALL of it before the new movie comes out. But then I started to realize how huge and sprawling it is- over 100 books, plus comics, video games, you name it.

Also reading Phillip K. Dick novels, starting with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I’ve seen a lot of the movies based on his novels, never actually read them.

And if there’s time, re-reading the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. He’s probably become my favorite author of all time. It’s full of dazzling moments like setting foot on the north pole of Mars for the first time, and seeing the distant sun spinning around in a tiny circle- and crazy shit like a space elevator falling or what would happen to earth if the ice caps melted. All of that is tied together with wonderfully optimistic humanist philosophy.

Sci-fi summer!

I’m having a renewed interest in the modern classics, too. I just re-read To Kill a Mockingbird.
I’m now reading a book about a guy’s religious explorations and I’m soon to give it up – he’s spending lots of money and meeting some incredible people and not taking it seriously. “Man Seeks God” is the title. I’m going to read the last chapter next, as it looks to me like he lapses into his Judaism.
The Grapes of Wrath is around here somewhere. I might pick it up next.
I’d never heard of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, but it was on this list and looks like a ‘must read’.
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey is a better book that some on the list, IMO, and I’m about due for my tri-annual read.
I’m getting older. As much as I like modern fiction, every few books I need to read something tried and true.
If you’ve not read I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb, they know that it’s probably my favorite book of all time. I’ve read it at least 8 but probably no more than 14 times. So many layers.
The Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the only book that was translated to English that I remember loving. I lie, there was a Nabokov. I have read it enough times that I leave it on my nightstand. If I’m sleepless I can pick it up and rejoin the story at one of the dozy bookmarks I’ve put in it.