Reading Season Is Upon Us

by Nancy Sackheim

Also known as beach season, high vacation season or simply summer, for those of us with a passion for books, it's reading season.

Some of us are hard and fast fiction fans, with our preferences ranging from literary to mystery to sci-fi to romance and everything in between, which includes well...at least 140 genres and subgenres. 

Nonfiction may be more to others' tastes, breaking down into around 25 categories, including memoir, biography and autobiography, history, philosophy, religion and spirituality, self-help, science, with literally dozens of genres and subgenres.

Most of us stick with our favorite categories, genres and subgenres of fiction or nonfiction.  Why not mix it up a bit this year with some additions and/or changes to your summer reading list.

Have you included books you may have read that deserve a reread?  Check out The Atlantic's "Fifteen Books You Won't Regret Rereading."

For great reads you may have missed, NPR's "100 Favorite Books" or any of NPR’s book lists. For more suggestions, Vox's "19 books from the 2010s we can't stop thinking about."

Here's an idea...ask a friend or friends the title of favorite books.  Read or reread their recommendation(s), and chances are you are going to get to know that friend in ways you might not have.

And don't forget your favorite books when you were a child.  You might be surprised at how well they hold up.

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