Summer Reading Lists.

• Horn Book -- A broad range of YA picks, from the quick & easy (and fantastic!) Dairy Queen and An Abundance of Katherines to the terrifyingly long This is All*.  I'm putting Julius Lester's Cupid and Jordan Sonnenblick's Notes From the Midnight Driver on my To Read list**. 
  
  On the intermediate list, I want to read the third book in Catherine Fisher's Oracle trilogy (I'm in the middle of Book Two at the moment) and the Klages book, which I've been meaning to get to for ages.  Glad to see A Drowned Maiden's Hair and Larklight on the list.

• NPR -- I've been meaning to take a look at Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life for a while, Josh mooned over a copy of Mouse Guard the last time we were at the comic shop, and I'm happy to see that The Plain Janes made the list.  Anyone have a subscription to Tin House?  Thoughts?  Longer list here.

• Salon -- This is the first installment of a four part series.  Not much to say, other than that I've been meaning to try Val McDermid for a while.

Other lists I should look at?

[Later:  Another list roundup.]

*Which I still haven't read.  I accidentally found out how it ends, and now I don't know if I want to put forth the effort.

**Again.  I feel like I've written it down sixteen times. 

Comments

[Colleen]

If you like short literary fiction then Tinhouse is a winner. I did have a sub, but needed to reduce the magazine influx and went with VA Quarterly Review as I tend more to like essays and I get so many anthologies of short fic to review. But I usually pick up at least one issue of Tinhouse a year (it's a quarterly) for the interviews alone. They also have a great section called "Lost and Found" where writers discuss books they have rediscovered or missed from years ago.

It's a beautifully done lit mag - well worth checking out. (Paul Collins contributes a couple of times a year and he is one of my fav writers.)

[Leila]

I figured if anyone knew it, you would. I might have to subscribe. It looks kind of awesome, and I've been digging the short fiction lately.

[Paige]

I finished Catherine Fisher's trilogy this spring, after having owned the books for entirely too long. Wonderful story - the third one is a nice, solid conclusion.

[Rebecca]

My fav (summer) reading list is TeenReads' Ultimate Teen Reading List which is a great mix of new and not-so-new books. I don't know if they'll be coming out with a newer version of the list, but last summer/autumn this very list was called "Ultimate Summer Reading List" so who knows.

[Anna]

I HATED 'This is all', immensely. It was so sad, because I started off really excited (back when I'd only just got over the novelty of being able to borrow ANY BOOK AT ALL from the book shop I work at) and WOW. I thought I would love it. I was sure of it! And the ending sucked but it wasn't even what ruined it. It romanticised all these other issues in it and seemed so SERIOUS and self-absorbed and then my head exploded.

I have no lists. I could write one for you though!