O's Summer Reading List
Find your next great book—or your next ten—in our jam-packed annual rundown of terrific titles. (Or catch up with our 2011 list.)

Illustration: Silja Goetz
It's summertime and the living is...a little bit easier. We all look forward to the warm, lazy afternoons, the lure of the beach towel, or chaise longue, or even the airplane seat. (Who doesn't want to lose herself in a good book then?)
Those are precisely the moments when you need a roundup of the season's most delectable reads. And here, after sifting through hundreds of new titles, is exactly that. The O Summer Reading List: satisfaction guaranteed.
Those are precisely the moments when you need a roundup of the season's most delectable reads. And here, after sifting through hundreds of new titles, is exactly that. The O Summer Reading List: satisfaction guaranteed.
Choose your next book: See O's 2012 summer reading list
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