It’s summertime (finally)! Put away the Kafka and the Kierkard, and read something a little bit simpler while you lounge on the beach, by the pool, or on in your yacht. We’ve compiled 6 books that you can breeze through while you relax!
THE HANDMAIDS TALE
By Margret Atwood
A dystopian novel set in the near future in which a totalitarian Christian theocracy overthrows the USA government. The novel follow the story of handmaid Offred, a concubine to the Christian elite, and her life of subjection and rebellion. It’s a page turner as you crave to find out more about the world Offred lives in and how America fell to such powers.
GONE GIRL
By Gillian Flynn
If you haven’t already jumped on the Gone Girl train, get on! Once you pick it up, you won’t be able to put the book down as you follow the case of missing Amy Elliot Dunne.
ANGELS & DEMONS
By Dan Brown
Another page-turn, Angels and Demons is the first in the series of Brown novels centered on Robert Langdon. Follow Langdon on a action pack hunt to stop the destruction of the Vatican by the “Illuminati.”
THE HELP
By Kathryn Stockett
A intriguing tear jerker that accounts the fictional stories of several black maids in 1960’s Mississippi. Told from the perspective of several character, the reader gets a good insight into what that period time was like.
DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM
By David Sedaris
A collection of essays by humorist David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim details Sedaris’s upbringing in North Carolina.
1000 WHITE WOMEN
By Jim Fergus
Another great historical fiction novel written as a collections of journals chronicling the imagined “Brides for Indians Program” spearheaded by the United States government.
