In the meantime, I have my schoolwork ready for tomorrow, and am looking forward to the next installment of "Downton Abbey" which comes on at nine.
I came across this interesting list compiled by NPR of readers' recommendations of the best "beach books" of all time.
It's nice to think of the beach on a night like this.
Anyway, here they are:
I put an * next to the ones I've read.
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
Affinity by Sarah Waters*
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Beginner's Greek by James Collins
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett *
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler*
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
The Brothers Karamazov by Feodor Dostyevsky*
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller*
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger*
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut*
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier*
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns*
Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole*
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosely
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler*
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells*
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Dracula by Bram Stoker*
The Drifters by James Michener
Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Dune by Frank Herbert*
East of Eden by John Steinbeck*
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card*
The Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins*
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett*
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand*
Frangipani by Celestine Vaite
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg*
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson*
The Godfather by Mario Puzo*
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell*
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Barrows*
The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling*
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers*
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad*
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien*
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins*
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy*
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb*
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury*
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice*
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Jaws by Peter Benchley*
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan*
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Lamb by Christopher Moore
The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn
The Last Girls by Lee Smith
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel*
Light Years by James Salter
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel*
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly*
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery*
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott*
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov*
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding*
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien*
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Lush Life by Richard Price
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy by Robert Leleux
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Money by Martin Amis
Moonstone by Wilkie Collins*
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie*
The Neon Rain: A Dave Robicheaux Novel by James Lee Burke
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger*
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith*
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway*
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout*
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Peace, Love and Baby Ducks by Lauren Myracle
Pet Semetary by Stephen King*
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov*
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver*
Possession by A.S. Byatt*
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow*
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy*
The Princess Bride by William Goldman*
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver*
The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier*
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris*
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant*
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
Salty by Mark haskell Smith
The Secret History by Donna Tartt*
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher*
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Shining by Stephen King*
Shogun by James Clavell
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson*
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
The Stand by Stephen King*
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields*
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever*
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Summer of '42 by Herman Raucher
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway*
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith*
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield*
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough*
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre*
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith*
Triple Zeck: A Nero Wolfe Omnibus by Rex Stout
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann*
Vanity Fair by William Thackeray
A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The White Lioness by Henning Mankell*
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte*
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
I read some of these so long ago that I barely remember them, and only a few of them at the beach!
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