Summer reading recommendations -- What are you reading?

July 13, 2009 | ChocChipCookie

[ChocChipCookie]

I haven't seen a good summer reading thread, so I thought I'd start one. What books have you read so far this summer, what are you currently reading, and what is in your book stack?

I just started reading The Doomsday Key by James Rollins. So far it has an interesting premise, genetically altered foods, but I am only about 1/8 of the way through.

I will probably read Glenn Beck's Common Sense and maybe Dred Scott's Revenge by Judge Napolitano.

I love hearing what everyone else is reading!

[JLS]

I am reading the classical _The Road to Serfdom_ by Hayek.

[ChocChipCookie]

Just realized I began every paragraph of my post with “I”. It’s all about me, I guess. :o)

[r9etb]

Re-reading Churchill's 5-volume series on the Second World War.

Fans of Homer J. Simpson's posts will understand the relevance....

[rovenstinez]

I am reading LESSONS FROM THE POOR.

[Tired of Taxes]

I read “Atlas Shrugged” in January. That’s enough reading for me for the entire year. ;-)

[John W]

Nixonland finished. Now reading-

Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

[zkbeta51]

Besides all the Jim Cramer books, I am currently 100 pages into Power, Ambition, Glory by Steve Forbes and John Prevas. Pretty good book.

[redhead]

In the master bathroom, it's Ann Coulter's "Godless." In the living room, it's "Depression Free, Naturally." There are others here and there in various degrees of "read-ness" but those are the main stops at this point.

[agere_contra]

Just started “Lights Out” by Steyn.

[kevinm13]

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes.

Great read. Lots of parallels with today, unfortunately.

[meadsjn]

Just finished "Foreign Enemies and Traitors" by Matt Bracken, FR's own Travis McGee.

Highly recommended, along with the previous two in the series.

[TightyRighty]

I love to read but have decided to take the summer to do some writing instead. I’ve got a stack of unread books in my bedroom that are looking really lonely right now!

[hampdenkid]

Reading all of John Connolly’s novels. The man understands that we live in a world where good and evil actually exist in manifest forms.

[anniegetyourgun]

If you're a Glenn Beck listener, you've heard everything that is in the book already. I read it, but don't recommend you spend money on it - unless you're buying it to give to some unthinking lib.

Finally getting around to Liberal Fascism - very well written - recommend.

I just finished The Shack - don't go there.

Next up for me will be The Black Swan.

[Batman11]

Just finished Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

READ IT!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Finishing Moby-Dick, and also working on Gulliver's Travels, Don Quixote, Le Morte D'Arthur, and Bruce Catton's one-volume The Civll War.

[gOOsefmalOOsef]

I am reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, have heard the recomendation many times and since I am taking the summer off from school I thought I would give it a go. Of course after I read this it will be time for my yearly reading on the Lord of the Rings trilogy along with The Silmarillion by Tolkein.

Atlas Shrugged however, has turned out to be prophetic and one of the best books I have read.

[Puppage]

The First Tycoon

[SMARTY]

Just finished ‘Wreck of the Medusa’ A. McKee, just beginning ‘A History of Warfare’ J. Keegan