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Here’s a summer reading list you’re going to love! The Top 10 Beach Reads Countdown: by RIFers, for RIFers.
We asked you to help us create a summer reading list, and you shared hundreds of recommendations – from what you’re reading now, to what’s on your TBR list this summer, to your classic favorites that you read again and again.
Here are five of the 10 books you recommended the most. Stay tuned for the top five!
“The main character in the story reminds you quite a bit of Lisbeth Salander,” says RIFer Jill. “Incredibly smart, focused, a little awkward around people, but amazingly dangerous in self-preservation skills. I’m in awe!”
If you’re a fan of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, you need to read Taylor Stevens’ three novels and meet Vanessa Michael Munroe, the “feral, take-no-prisoners heroine” who makes this series so popular.
I love my eBook reader. But I have to admit, sometimes I hate it a little too. I can take dozens of books on vacation (love), but I can’t read in the bathtub (hate).
The good thing is, there will always be physical books: keep-them-forever hardcovers, gorgeous trade paperbacks, chunky mass market paperbacks, leave-them-out-where-everyone-can-see-them coffee table books.
As conflicted as I am about my eBook reader, I will continue reading on it. Of course I will. And I will continue bringing books home from the book shop and lining my shelves.
We asked you to tell us what you’re reading these days and you certainly didn’t disappoint!
Find out which books topped your list of recommendations from last week’s Mother’s Day sweepstakes.
“Odd, dark, comical, confusing,” says RIFer Sharon. “It brought to mind Steve Erickson and David Foster Wallace.
The city of San Francisco is a character in the melee, and the most vivid one at that. I need to read it again and make a flow chart!”
Now in paperback wherever books are sold, The Dead Do Not Improve is the anticipated debut from Grantland editor Jay Caspian Kang. Named a #1 Critics Pick by Time Out New York.
Kira Walton shares her favorite literary Moms – from the classic Mrs. Dalloway to recent bestseller Room to debut novel Mother, Mother.
Maybe it’s because I like my novels on the dark side, maybe it’s because these women haunted me long after I turned the last page.
Whatever the reason, these five Moms top my list, and they’re all tragic mothers in literature.
