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Men's Health has a list of 11 Summer Reads for Men
http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/best-beach-books?fullpage=true
I picked 1 from each category that I thought sounded interesting.
Novels
The Son by Phillip Meyer (Ecco)
A multigenerational Western spanning the 1800s Comanche raids in Texas to the 20th century oil boom, The Son is due out on May 28 and has already earned praise as possibly one of the great American novels. “When you’ve finished the last page, you’ll take a breath and wonder how the hell Meyer could possibly surpass this monument of a book,” says Chris Schluep, senior editor of books at Amazon.com.
Short Story Collections
The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lipsyte's 2010 novel The Ask was a darkly funny examination of millennial white collar self-loathing. In this collection of a dozen short stories, the author covers everything from a monster preying on a boy's fantasy realm to a male childbirthing coach.“Lipsyte specializes in people in over their heads, trying to talk their way out of absurd situations of their own design,” says Ellen Wernecke, a book reviewer for The Onion's A.V. Club.
Non-Fiction
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Anderson's carefully researched account of British Army officer T.E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt in World War I overturns everything you think you knew about the Middle East. Anderson makes the case that the groundwork for many of our modern problems was laid by not just the famed Lawrence, but also the men working for him—who were maybe not so different from yourself. “These relatively low level officers had their own adventurous hand in the affairs of the region,” says Schluep.
http://www.menshealth.com/best-life/best-beach-books?fullpage=true
I picked 1 from each category that I thought sounded interesting.
Novels
The Son by Phillip Meyer (Ecco)
A multigenerational Western spanning the 1800s Comanche raids in Texas to the 20th century oil boom, The Son is due out on May 28 and has already earned praise as possibly one of the great American novels. “When you’ve finished the last page, you’ll take a breath and wonder how the hell Meyer could possibly surpass this monument of a book,” says Chris Schluep, senior editor of books at Amazon.com.
Short Story Collections
The Fun Parts: Stories by Sam Lipsyte (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lipsyte's 2010 novel The Ask was a darkly funny examination of millennial white collar self-loathing. In this collection of a dozen short stories, the author covers everything from a monster preying on a boy's fantasy realm to a male childbirthing coach.“Lipsyte specializes in people in over their heads, trying to talk their way out of absurd situations of their own design,” says Ellen Wernecke, a book reviewer for The Onion's A.V. Club.
Non-Fiction
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Anderson's carefully researched account of British Army officer T.E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt in World War I overturns everything you think you knew about the Middle East. Anderson makes the case that the groundwork for many of our modern problems was laid by not just the famed Lawrence, but also the men working for him—who were maybe not so different from yourself. “These relatively low level officers had their own adventurous hand in the affairs of the region,” says Schluep.
