The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
Cold Vengeance by Preston & Child
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Dominance by Will Lavender
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
Donna Tart by The secret history
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter
Elantris by Branden Sanderson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
The Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sirokin
Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore
It's Not That I'm Bitter by Gina Barreca
If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
King of Torts by John Grisham
Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins
Like a Tree by Aly Otinga
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell
Metro 2033 by Dmitry A. Glukhovsky
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Nothing New Under the Sun by Tonya D. Floyd
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Parrot & Olivier by Peter Carey
Patrick Gale by Notes from an Exhibition
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Possession by A.S. Byatt
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Rabbit Run by John Updike
Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Shadows Beyond the Flames and Other Stories by J.M. Tresaugue
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon
Strip by Thomas Perry
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Anniversary Man by R. J. Ellory
The Appeal by John Grisham
The Balloonist by Macdonald Harris
The Black Minutes by Martin Solares
The Borrower by Rebeca Makkai
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
The Businessman by Thomas M. Disch
The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
The Crowing Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Keep by Jennifer Eagan
The Last American Man by Eliza Gilbert
The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
The List of Seven by Mark Frost
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Earlier this week, we put out a call for nominations for what to read as our August 1book140 selection. The theme is beach reads—again. Below is a list of the 130 (!!) books readers have suggested so far. Nominations are open until 5 pm Eastern today. This weekend we'll pick the shortlist and then begin voting on Monday.
