QOTW — What to Read This Summer?

QOTW = Question of the Weekend. So it is officially summer and I know some folks will try to catch up on their reading while the world slows down a little. Sometimes the reading is in taking up a challenge (like the Infinite Summer group reading Infinite Jest, or last summer’s OccupyGaddis group) or just moving something long intended to the top of the stack or some new summer blockbuster (there’s a new Dan Brown out) or escaping to some spy or romance world. So do we have any summer readers here?

If so, what are you reading and recommending this summer? I started the summer reading The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk, with the last of the cycle, At Last, up next. If you are a fan of Downton Abbey, this is the anti-Downton. British upper class without much to do, losing their money, their influence and their way of life — vividly (even savagely) written — brilliantly keeping you involved with a bunch of characters you’d probably never have lunch with. St. Aubyn is a brilliant writer.

Tell us in the comments what you are reading this summer!