Every newspaper publishes a summer reading list as if we had more time in the summer than the rest of the year. I suppose that you do if you are a student or a teacher but for the rest of us it is the same old same old. Fortunately these reading lists can be used all year:
UK Telegraph’s 50 best ever summer holiday books.
Some of these I have actually read! Here’s another academic one from the University of Michigan’s school of urban and regional planning. Urban Planning Summer Reading List which includes Guns, Germs and Steel and urban sprawl selections.
National Geographic’s Travel Library breaks up books about regions by regions.