Crowdsourced: Summer reading list
I’d put out a call for “good, meaty fiction” or “terrible, addictive, brain candy fiction” on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ over the weekend, and received a bunch of responses! I catalogued most of them here for everyone’s enjoyment.
Recent historical fiction
- Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel by Tea Obreht
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
(Read this, loved it) The Help by Kathryn StockettRemoved for questionable racial analysis, see comment below- Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Current fiction
- A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
- Anything by Jill Mansell (British chick lit)
- The wind up bird by Haruki Murakami
- Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
- Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
- Anything by Arnaldur Indriðason (Stieg-Larsson-ish crime novels)
Long-time-ago historical fiction
- The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
- Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Sci-fi/fantasy
- Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins (Young adult fiction that adults will like)
(Loved these) - The Passage by Justin Cronin
- Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card
- The Unidentified by Rae Mariz (Young adult fiction that adults will like)
- Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Classics
- Persuasion by Jane Austen
