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.
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
A Drop of the Hard Stuff by Lawrence Block
A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Quiet Belief in Angels by R.J. Ellory
A Telling Time by Glynnis Hayward
A Thousand Autumns by Jacob de Zoet
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Klueger
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Anything by Donald E. Westlake
Anything by Elmore Leonard
Anything by Graham Green
Anything by John Grisham
Anything by Lisa See
Anything by P.G. Wodehouse
Anything by Terry Pratchet
Anything by Tom Robbins
Anything by Tony Hillerman
Anything by Wilkie Collins
Armadale by Wilkie Collins
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan
Cape Cod Noir edited by David Ulin
Car Camping by Mark Sundeen
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
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
The Quincunx by Charles Pallister
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay
The Town by William Faulkner
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
The Tres Navarre Series by Rick Riordan
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Unnamed by Joshua Ferris
Wake by Robert Sawyer
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
