July 1book140 Beach Read Nominations: A Running List
A look at what readers have suggested for our next book
Earlier this week, we put out a call for nominations for our July 1book140 selection—the theme is beach reads. Readers responded with more than 60 suggestions. Here's a list of the titles that have been nominated so far, which range from ancient epic poetry (The Odyssey AND The Aeneid) to present-day literary fiction (Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan). If there's a book you'd like to read that's not there, nominate it! We close the nominations round today at 5 pm Eastern. We'll publish the short list and start voting tomorrow.2030 by Albert Brooks
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw
Breath by Tim Winton
Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty
Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
E.F. Benson- Any 'Lucia' book
Fake Perfection by Linda Ginac
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Great House by Nicole Krauss
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larsen
Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves and the Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl
Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse
Life by Keith Richards
Life With Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar
Lucia in London by E.F. Benson
Maine by Courtney J. Sullivan
Make Way for Lucia by E.F. Benson
Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
Naked by Nick Hornby
Not George Washington by P.G. Wodehouse
Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
P.G. Wodehouse- Anything work
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls
Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
Swimming Pool by Holly LeCraw
That Paris Year by Joanna Biggar
The Aeneid by Vergil
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood
The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell
The Newest American by Denny Sheehan
The Odyssey by Homer
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
The Sea by John Banville
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
The Shark Net by Robert Drewes
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Thought Gang by Tibor Fischer
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
World War Z by Max Brook