Summer Reading

Even though I've got a summer course to teach and a book to write, the thing that I'm really excited about is the possibility of summer reading. I don't get much reading done for pleasure during the term - maybe a book or two a month plus lighter fare like magazines and comics and such.

And since there was just a book sale here, plus a trip to the bookstore yesterday, I'm pretty well stocked up. The current list looks like this:

• The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
  
• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• American Dreams: Lost & Found by Studs Terkel
• Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• The Law of White Spaces by Giorgio Pressburger
  

But that isn't really how I read. This is why book clubs are lost on me - because I can't read things for enjoyment on a deadline. I like to be able to pick up what I want and what suits me, and book clubs rarely pick things that match my mood. So we'll see whether I actually get through any of these or not.

But I'm curious, as always, about what other folks are reading, and what they'd recommend and why. And I do wonder who's read any of those and what your thoughts are. Should I juggle the order?