Summer reading?

Any suggestions for books to read this summer?

The SCM office will be closed for a couple of weeks during August and I'm hoping to catch up on some reading. Please give me some ideas!

Here are two books I've read recently that I would encourage you to read if you get a chance:

1. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
   Thanks to a recommendation from another SCMer, I finally got around to reading this. It's a fictional memoir of the elderly Rev John Ames, a minister in Iowa - recording stories from his life, and the lives of his father and grandfather, for his young son. Gives you an intimate encounter with his inner world, his vocation, his struggle with God and theology, his prayer life, his love for his wife, and a really vivid picture of a community rooted in the stories of the generations who have gone before.
2. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
   Completely crazy but terrifying and believable picture of a dystopian world. God's Gardeners - followers of a religion inspired by Christianity, eco-activism, foraging and saving the species of the world - have long predicted the Flood. In the chaos that follows, terrible things happen to the central characters - but somehow it still manages to be a warm and human tale.

So.... what else should I be reading? Please share your recommendations here :)