Summer Reading List

Because there might be a beach or a cottage in your near future. Don’t worry, there won’t be a test come September. The Force by Don Winslow Winslow’s latest is full of morally dubious cops, precarious race relations, and hard-earned authenticity. It will earn comparisons to The Wire. And you know how we feel about The Wire. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie Not every novelist can write a good memoir. But since Alexie’s writing has always been so personal anyway, this story of family, addiction and forgiveness feels like the book we’ve been waiting for, without knowing it. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken The former SNL writer and current Senator from Minnesota proves that not all books by politicians are ghost-written, hardcover campaign tell-alls. If only all pols spent their ample free time writing memoirs as funny as this instead of golfing in Florida.