Summer Reading List

Frightening Books to Help People of Any Age Own the Night

The Los Angeles Public Library | Posted 05.30.2012

The Los Angeles Public Library

When you're a teenaged book lover summer reading is the best reading! The freest reading! It's staying up all night under the covers with a flashlight because you don't have class in the morning reading!

Summer Reading Books for ALL Your Kids

Devon Corneal | Posted 05.24.2012

Devon Corneal

Here's to a summer without whining -- unless your kids are asking for another trip the library or bookstore to stock up.

The 20 Most Anticipated Books Of Summer 2011

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.08.2011

Anis Shivani

Exciting new novels by Mohammed Hanif and Aravind Adiga (two of the hottest stars of South Asian literature), new novels by underrated writers Dana Spiotta and Tom Perrotta, meditations on race and politics by Caryl Phillips and Randall Kennedy,

Why Summer Reading Lists Bum Me Out

Delia Lloyd | Posted 08.17.2011

Delia Lloyd

If you're like me, summer reading lists don't inspire excitement or inspiration. They merely inspire dread and a looming sense of failure.

Cavern of Waiting Treasures: The Library Bookmobile

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 08.16.2011

Nina Sankovitch

I associate bookmobiles with summer, the coolness offered on a blistering hot day, the books offered with all the time in the world to read them. Bookmobiles still ply their trade, from Mobile, Alabama (how perfect!) to Ames Iowa.

A Religion Summer Reading List

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 07.25.2011

Cathleen Falsani

This summer brings a rich collection of new spiritually-themed titles that promise to captivate both the soul and the imagination as they reveal secrets and explore dark corners of the world of faith.

Your Summer Reading List

latimes.com | Posted 07.23.2011

What novels and biographies are coming? What's quirky? What should the kids be reading? Let our special reading guide of new and forthcoming titles he...

Summer Reading: A Midsummer Night's Read

Pam Allyn | Posted 05.25.2011

Pam Allyn

We are all looking for ways to enter new worlds, and the combination of summer and books can make that happen for children of all ages. Here are some summer reading suggestions.

What Obama's Summer Reading List Says About Him

Slate Magazine | John Dickerson | Posted 05.25.2011

All vacations have their rituals: slapping sunscreen on wriggling kids, eating ice cream after dinner, and hiding the holes in the rental house drywal...

Summer Reading List With a Twist

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Kenneth C. Davis

some of my favorite history books --recent and not-so recent--that may help you keep cool by taking you down to the water.