Summer reading :. What is on your list?

[Too Tall]

Just starting Gardner of Versilles.

[SlowPokePete]

Winter Skin.

SPP

[prcrstn8]

Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck.
Barbarian Days (A Surfing Life), William Finnegan.

[clunk]

White Trash, Nancy Isenberg

[Scott G.]

"Wings on my Sleeve" Captain Eric Brown
"It Can't Happen Here", Sinclair Lewis
"Grand Hotel" Vicki Baum

[robin3mj]

Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck.
Barbarian Days (A Surfing Life), William Finnegan.

I'm working through Barbarian Days too, but not finding it overly compelling.


I’m in the middle if “Skippy Dies”, the first novel of the author of “The mark and The Void” which was recently recommended to me. It’s typical funny Irish lit.

If you like spy novels, Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason are fairly fun. The actual author was in the CIA for his career so there are some nice details.

Nonfiction:
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (just started)
And to read before the end of summer:
Tribes by Sebastian Junger
The Immortal Irishman
The Road Taken (about US infrastructure)
Valiant Ambition by Philbrick about GW and Benedict Arnold
The Nordic Theory of Everything

[taz]

Naseem Taleb - Antifragile

David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

[Shoogs]

Crazyhorse Custer by Stephen E Ambrose

Started it before vacationing in the Black Hills...which was awesome.

[zetroc]

"Hope in the Dark" by Rebecca Solnit
"Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic” by Sam Quinones
"Do What You Love, And Other Lies" by Miya Tokumitsu
"Enter Helen" by Brooke Hauser
"The Internet of Garbage" by Sarah Jeong
"Dad is Fat" by Jim Gaffigan

and many, many, many others.

[nrs5000]

The Two-Ocean War, Samuel Eliot Morrison

[Dylan H]

The New Jim Crow

[xjoex]

Seveneves by Neil Stephenson

[liv2bike]

Doing a rotation up in Alaska. Location: back of beyond. I have several books with me. A sample:

Finding Abbey by Sean Prentiss
Braving It by James Campbell
An Icelandic guide book for my trip to Iceland in August
The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner

An environmental non-fiction theme.

[steve garro]

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (just started)

I really liked it - it's a good window into both Lafayette, the history of division in the USA, and also of our history with the French and how our revolution caused theirs.

"Assassination Vacation" and "Strange Fishes" are both super excellent too - I love SV



Currently reading "Lawrence in Arabia"

So far, super good.




- Garro.

[edoz]

The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski.

[ides1056]

Just finished Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Potemkin, which I can't recommend enough, and moving on to his biography of the Romanov's after I finish Andrew Bacevich's latest book on US military policy in the Middle East.

[Corso]

Ernest Hemingway book that contains 4 of his novels: The Sun also Rises, For whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man in the Sea.

I wanted to see what I missed back in high school when I HAD to read them.

Yeah, I missed A LOT!

[Scott G.]

Just finished Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography of Potemkin, which I can't recommend enough, and moving on to his biography of the Romanov's after I finish Andrew Bacevich's latest book on US military policy in the Middle East.

If you move on to Montefiore's Stalin, try Emma Goldman "My Disillusionment in Russia" and Victor Serge "Memoirs of a Revolutionary" first,
good setup for Stalin.

[Matthew Strongin]

Ernest Hemingway book that contains 4 of his novels: The Sun also Rises, For whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man in the Sea.

I wanted to see what I missed back in high school when I HAD to read them.

Yeah, I missed A LOT!

Nice. I always enjoy going back to reread classics or the books from my literary studies in school. I haven't been reading nearly as much as I used to these last few years so I may hit some of my favorites from Russian lit to get the ball rolling again.

[Mshue]

"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari. It starts kind of slow, but now that I'm halfway through I'm really enjoying it.