Looking for some good summer reads? Here is a list, courtesy of National Public Radio, The Guardian, The Times and the Washington Post. Happy reading!
The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, by John Fowles
The Alexandria Quartet, by Lawrence Durrell
Amours de Voyage, by Arthur Hugh Clough
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
The Beach, by Alex Garland
Body Surfing, by Anita Shreve
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan
Chocolat, by Joanne Harris
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García Márquez
Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee
Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Flashman’s Lady, by George MacDonald Fraser
French Leave, by PG Wodehouse
The Go-Between, by LP Hartley
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
The World According to Garp, by John Irving
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
I Like It Here, by Kingsley Amis
Imogen, by Jilly Cooper
The Lady in the Lake, by Raymond Chandler
The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
The Magus, by John Fowles
Mother’s Milk, by Edward St Aubyn
A Murder of Quality, by John le Carré
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, by Evelyn Waugh
Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene
The Reconstructionist, by Josephine Hart
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
Romola, by George Eliot
The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch
The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles