Get Ready for Summer Reading – Part Two

Last month, I listed some suggestions for summer fiction reading. This month, I’ll do the same for nonfiction.

Although these first recommendations have been out for a while, they are still worthy of your consideration, if you haven’t already read them. Eckhart Tolle’s two books – The Power of Now and A New Earth – continue to be popular. And, in light of the recent presidential primary season coming to an end, I expect The Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father, both by Barack Obama, to continue to do well.

But there’s lot’s more to choose from.

Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman by Alice Steinbach, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun and author of Without Reservations, is a funny and tender book that combines learning, traveling and writing.

I Feel Bad About My Neck (and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman) by Nora Ephron, gives the reader a candid and hilarious look at women getting older and having to deal with the trials and tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests and more.

For a little heavier fare, you might want to try John Perkins’ The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals and How to Change the World. Or, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner.

For you history buffs, recent releases include Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg, and Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell.

And if you just want to read one book for the whole summer, the almost 700-page biography Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson has just come out in paperback.

Happy reading for a happy summer!