What's on your summer reading list?

HIGHLY recommend Drive by Daniel Pink. If you liked A Whole New Mind, you'll like Drive. It'll provide plenty of food for thought!

My wife and I have decided to turn off the television during the summer evenings and read the same book(s) together. (I buy two copies and when we're done, we'll send one to her sister in a long-term care facility who loves to read!) We're going to begin with "The Happiness Project, Or Why I spent a year trying to sing in the morning, clean my closets, fight right, read aristotle, and generally Have More Fun" by Gretchen Rubin. Then, we're going to read together, "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert.

We find the experience to be very thought provoking and we have some wonderful discussions going to and from work as well as while we're fixing dinner together, etc., etc. Thus, I guess we have our own "book discussion club" designed for two young lovers who will celebrate their 44th wedding anniversary on June 11, 2010! :-)

Thanks for adding to my "to read" list! Here are a few that I will be reading.

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabelle Allende

I'll also be catching up on a stack of professional reading!

I'm starting my summer reading with "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy and continue with James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

I'm currently reading FreedomTM, the follow-up to Daniel Suarez's spectacular novel, Daemon. Next on my list is The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman's Newberry winning novel. Then I'm going to try out The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and its sequels. Finally I hope to round out the summer with some Christopher Moore (I haven't decided which ones).

Teaching US History and Government has consumed my summer with a list of books in relation to those subjects. I am currently reading Bobby Kennedy's book, To Seek A Newer World. I am planning on finishing Cicero's On The Good Life after I finish up with the previous title. If you're interested in these topics I would also suggest reading Fareed Zakaria's books, they are easy reading and have great historical insight and application to current events and future debates.

I always select a number of books to generate answers to difficult questions that I received over the last school year. I am a US History and Government teacher so my reading list revolves around these topics. The election of 1968 has been an early topic of my reading over the last two weeks and will return to the classics including Cicero's On The Good Life, which John Adams references a lot in correspondence with John Quincy. If you are interested in topics relating to social studies I would suggest Fareed Zakaria's books. They are insightful, have great historical context, and offer great foresight.

This a Listmania list on Amazon. Books that help explain the problems in the public schools. 34 short blurbs--you can read them in 3 minutes--will help you decide if you want to check out a book further.

http://www.amazon.com/34-Important-Books-About-Education/lm/R1XG8X2T4RZY...

I gobbled up The Help. Such a wonderful book. You can get it cheap at Costco - or maybe you want to buy it at your neighborhood bookstore, if you're lucky enough to have one. Happy reading...

I'm a School Library Media Specialist and I'm hoping to read children's books over the summer so I can do more booktalks and informal readers' advisory. Any suggestions? I am going to start by reading Lightning Thief.