July Is Beach-Book Month at 1book140

We're hurtling toward the end of the first month of our big, collective read-along, and it's time to choose next month's selection.

What to read? What to read? We've been asking ourselves that for the last week. Rather than throw out the call for books in every imaginable genre, we thought we'd narrow the field this time. It being summer and all, we're asking for nominations for beach books. I'm partial to P.G. Wodehouse when I go to take the sea air, but you should interpret this category however you want. Remember to keep it light; we have the rest of the year to read lengthy meditations about famous German novelists.

We'll take nominations starting today until this Thursday, June 23rd. Then we'll post the short list and begin voting on Friday the 24th. We'll close voting and announce the winner on next Wednesday, June 29th.

IMPORTANT: Submit your nominations in the comments below. We want to keep the Twitter feeds clear for the ongoing discussion of The Blind Assassin. (Anyone need to catch up? Check out our reading schedule here.)