Summer reading 2011.

These are the books I read this past summer, presented in chronological order and with minimal commentary because I'm currently occupied with much less recreational reading. Critical thinking on writing composition theory, anyone?

Italics indicate books I had read previously; bold type marks my recommendations. [If I re-read it, that's a recommendation in itself.]

The Truth About Forever -- Sarah Dessen
Prague -- Arthur Phillips
How Did You Get This Number -- Sloane Crosley
What Now? -- Ann Patchett
Nine Stories -- J. D. Salinger
Mrs. Dalloway -- Virginia Woolf
Special Topics in Calamity Physics -- Marisha Pessl
On Chesil Beach -- Ian McEwan
The Russian Debutante's Handbook -- Gary Shteyngart
The Phantom Tollbooth -- Justin Norton
A Widow For One Year -- John Irving
Someone I Loved -- Anna Gavalda
I Am Charlotte Simmons -- Tom Wolfe
Indecision -- Benjamin Kunkel
The Luneberg Variation -- Paolo Maurensig
Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel García Márquez
Selected Stories -- E. M. Forster
The Forgotten Garden -- Kate Morton
The School of Essential Ingredients -- Erica Bauermeister
Old School -- Tobias Wolff
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation -- Elizabeth Berg
Still Alice -- Lisa Genova
Picnic, Lightning -- Billy Collins
The Elegance of the Hedgehog -- Muriel Barbery
Interpreter of Maladies -- Jhumpa Lahiri
The Music Lesson -- Katharine Weber
One Day -- David Nicholls
Little Bee -- Chris Cleave
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food -- Jennifer 8 Lee
The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos, and the End of an Era -- Geoffrey Douglas
A Moveable Feast -- Ernest Hemingway
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation -- Lynne Truss
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris -- John Baxter
The Hunger Games -- Suzanne Collins
Never Let Me Go -- Kazuo Ishiguro