A Little Light Summer Reading 2006

Discover the best light summer reads of 2006 with our curated book list—perfect for beach days, vacations, or relaxing in the sun. Find your next favorite book now!

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Requiem for a Dream

by Hubert Selby Jr.

The acclaimed novel that inspired the Darren Aronofsky film--the story of three friends whose pursuit of wealth ends in addiction and tragedy. "To understand Selby's …
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Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby

The decadence and violence of the urban streets is graphically portrayed in this novel set in a post-WWII Brooklyn slum.
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Child of God

by Cormac McCarthy

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man …
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In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and …
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The big clock

 

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Her

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

"A surreal semi-autobiographical blackbook record of a semi-mad period of my life, in that mindless, timeless state most romantics pass through, confusing flesh madonnas with …
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The Ginger Man

by James Patrick Donleavy

First published in 1955 and originally banned in America, this reprint is part of a series of reissues of works by this incomparable author, whom …
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A fan's notes

 

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Eichmann in Jerusalem

by Hannah Arendt

"A profound and documented analysis....Bound to stir our minds and trouble our consciences."-Chicago Tribune.
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Martin Dressler

by Steven Millhauser

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The author of Voices in the Night reveals the mesmerizing journey of an American dreamer as …
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Edwin Mullhouse

by Steven Millhauser

A parody of a literary biography starring a 10-year-old novelist who is mysteriously dead at 11—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Martin Dressler. As a …
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American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence …
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

by Sam Harris

Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify …
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Don Quixote

 

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The Day of Creation

by J. G. Ballard

At Port-la-Nouvelle, on the parched terrain of central Africa, Dr. Mallory watches as his clinic fails and dreams of discovering a third Nile that will …
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