Have you been searching madly for a good book to keep you up nights, curl up with on the hammock or enjoy during a leisurely day of sailing? Look no further. Airfoil’s eBay Trading Assistant team – comprised solely of self-declared bibliomaniacs (loosely defined as those with an “excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books”) – have searched high and low through dusty stacks and electronic libraries to bring you this Summer Reading List of the Biblio-Obsessed. Happy page turning!
From the Library of Caitlin Cassady
The book you’re too embarrassed to read in public, but it’s so good you do it anyway
20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-life Woman’s Guide to Balance and Direction, Christine Hassler
The book you give to the family literati as a gift
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The book you should re-read once a year
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
The book that makes you become a bit of a conspiracy theorist (and chess master)
The Eight, Katherine Neville
The book your man-friend makes you read and you secretly love
Sahara, Clive Cussler
From the Library of Lisa Turner
(aka The Literary Elitist’s Guide to Summer Reading)
For the Jay Gatsby in you
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
For the Sookie Stackhouse in you
The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
For the Ophelia, Regan or Lady Macbeth in you
The Weird Sisters, Eleanor Brown
For the Lady Brett Ashley or Jake Barnes in you
The Paris Wife, Paula McLain
For the Hermione Granger in you
Discovery Witches, Deborah E. Harkness
From the Library of Jamie Favazza
For American lit lovers
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
For history buffs
Maus, Art Spiegelman
For thinkers
Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
For French speakers
Kiffe kiffe demain, Faïza Guène
For poets
The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, edited by Mary Ann Caws
From the Library of Kate Eidam
For the writers and journalists among us
Going to See the Elephant, Rodes Fishburne
For the closet Vulcans
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
For (wild) animal lovers
The Daily Coyote, Shreve Stockton
For short story fiends
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
For the poets who didn’t know it
The Trouble with Poetry, Billy Collins
Agree? Disagree? Have your own summer reading recommendations? Please let us know here, on Facebook or at @airfoilpr.
When Caitlin, Lisa, Jamie and Kate don’t have their noses buried in books or flipping pages on an e-reader, they hang out at their day jobs (which helps fund the cost of the book obsession) at Airfoil, a high-tech PR and marketing communications firm with offices in Silicon Valley and Detroit.
