Summer Reading Kits From Lifehacker Staff
Summer: Time to relax by the pool or on the beach with a drink in hand and reading. And between true crime thrillers, sci-fi adventure and timeless classics, there’s a lot to go through.
Here’s what we’re reading this summer – what about you?
Ines Montfajon, summer intern
The last book I read was The Purpose: The Process of Continuous Improvement . This book was recommended to me by a close friend, and I really enjoyed reading it. It discusses the challenges of challenging work, deadlines, the struggle to maintain a happy personal life, and achieving success at work. An excellent lecture on how talking, researching and truly understanding your goal and its limitations will steer you in the right direction to finally achieve it.
Nick Douglas, staff writer
This summer I am reading the Chronicles of Narnia series using the same copies that my father read aloud when I was a child. I also read this out loud because my wife and I love to read to each other while we go to bed. This is a great reading-aloud series, with fast-paced plots, lots of gnomes, talking animals, and English schoolchildren who need to have their voices dubbed. It’s also interesting to reread it just after the three seasons of The Magicians , which is essentially Narnia for adults.
Patrick Allan, staff writer
I recently read and recommend When Breathing Becomes Air by Paul Kalaniti, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, and Six Ravens by Lee Bardugo.
This summer I plan to read Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, Escape from the Wolf: A Safety Guide for Traveling Professionals by Clinton Emerson, Solanin by Inio Asano, and Crooked Kingdom (sequel to Six Crows ) by Lee Bardugo.
Alicia Adamchik, staff writer
This summer, I am expanding my horizons of nonfiction with you at our summer book club. (In June, we read Mary Roach’s Ghost: Science Solves Afterlife . Join Us !) I just finished Bad Blood by John Kerreyrou, which details the rise and fall of Theranos and its charismatic, mistaken founder Elizabeth Holmes. what I can ‘I recommend enough.
I have two detective novels by Tana French on my bedside table, a book about the Manson family and the people who eat darkness , a true crime story by Richard Lloyd Parry that I’ve waited so long to dive into because I like it when I’m not I can fall asleep. … And I can’t wait to get my hands on Kudos , the third book in Rachel Kusk’s Outline Trilogy. If it’s something like the first two, I know I’ll come back to it over and over again.
Claire Lower, food and beverage editor
I read horribly, so my plan is to finally finish Love in a Time of Cholera , which I’ve been reading for nearly 100 years, and Warren Zevon’s biography, I’ll Sleep When I Die , which I vomited. through, but had to stop for a moment because it was becoming a real bummer.
Adam Powers, video producer
I am currently finishing the third book of the Red Rising trilogy. Basically, this is the Hunger Games in Space, but much better. Highly recommend the entire series if you are a smart, fun and addicting beach changer.
Also read about everything to do with music, so How Music Works by David Byrne is great and The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross is must-read.
Also finally got to reading The Sixth Extinction, which everyone knows is great.
And finally, if you enjoy graphic novels, there is no reason not to read The Saga because it is striking: honest, original, vulgar and superbly executed.
Joel Kahn, Senior Video Producer
What I Read Recently: Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker. Bosquer tries a crash course in wine and takes us on a journey with him. She explains the concepts of wine, telling us about this year in the world of sommelier. It serves as an excellent introduction to wine reading.
What I am currently reading: Weapons of Mathematical Destruction by Katie O’Neill. Essentially, O’Neill is explaining to us why algorithms and big data harm everyone. All the time. With many striking examples. Not exactly beach reading, but instructive.
What I plan to read next: Meet in the Bathroom by Lizzie Goodman. 400 pages of recent indie rock history, from the creation of The Strokes to the “final” LCD Soundsystem show? Sign me up. It looks like a good companion for my phase of reading only female punk rockers’ memoirs two years ago.
Virginia K. Smith, Managing Editor
I reread Tina Brown’s greatest book, The Chronicles of Diana . I read and became obsessed with it when it first came out in 2008, but the combination of the royal wedding and reading her latest book, The Vanity Fair Diaries , made me come again. It’s beautifully, professionally laid out and overall perfect, and pretty much the perfect tone and theme for a summer reading. I can’t get enough.