It is time for beach reads again, although I read anything and everything over the summer. I am really looking forward to a chance to read, having spent months packing, sorting, pitching and moving. Well, I have continued to read, but haven't had a chance to write, yet so want to share some wonderful reads. Hopefully that will happen over the next month or two.
I have a list of authors I follow antcipating their next book, that I simply must read. Locate that sun umbrella, the chaise lounge, the iced tea and then lose myself in another world. Sometimes it is a place (Paris, London, Yellowstone), sometimes it is a person (Shakespeare, memoirs, presidents), sometimes it is a time (medieval Scotland, Puritan New England, the 1960s) and sometimes it is a taste (single malts, organic foods, what to eat next). Entertaining, educational and edifying, these authors never fail me.
Nonfiction writers
Heavily weighted towards history and natural history.
A. Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood (Payback), Stephen Ambrose
B. Nick Bunker, Bill Bryson, Geraldine Brooks, Iain Banks, Alan Bennett
C. Rachel Carson, AJ Cronin, Winston Churchill, William Cronon
D. Bernard DeVoto, Michael Dirda, Richard Dawkins, John Gregory Dunne
E. Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Edward
F. William Fiennes, Niall Fergusson, David Hackett Fischer, Shelby Foote
G. AAGill, A Greig, Stephen Jay Gould, Doris Kearns Goodwin
H. Edward Hoagland, Tony Horwitz, William Least Heat-Moon, Bernd Heinrich, Stephen Hawkins
I. Ian Frazer
J. PD James, Clive James
K. Verlyn Klinkenborg, Barbara Kingsolver, Robert Kennedy Jr, Tracy Kidder
L. Louise Leaman, Robert Leckie, Aldo Leopold
M. David McCullouch, John McPhee, John Muir, Farley Mowat, William Manchester
N. Stephen Nelson, Cynthia Ne
O. Edna OBrien
P. Michael Pollan, Nancy Pearl, Annie Proulx
R. Oliver Rackham, Tim Russert, Teddy Roosevelt
S. Marjori Santani Persepolis, Simon Schama, Ernest Thompson Seton, Arthur Schlessinger, Jr., TC Smout
T. Studs Terkel, Thoreau, Alisdair Taylor,
U. Robert Utley
V. Voltaire
W. Patricia Wells, Simon Winchester, Daniel Worster
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