42 More Great Books for Your Summer Reading List
Need book recommendations? We got em. Last year we gave you our first annual list of 42 Great Books for your Summer Reading List.
It’s summertime again, so here’s 42 more. Now you have no excuse not to read something this summer. Write in your own favorites in the comments.
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100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Corrections: A Novel
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Deliverance by James Dickey
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Jurassic Park by Michael Crighton
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kids by Bill Bryson
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Misery by Stephen King
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
Porno by Irvine Welsh
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Ulysses by James Joyce
The World According to Garp by John Irving
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman