Authors Reveal Favorite Summer Reads
What’s the one question that everyone wants to ask every author?
Okay, so I’m generalizing just a tad here, but interviewers seem to ask writers “What’s you’re favorite book” an awful lot. And I know that I want to know, too.
CNN just posted a Real Simple article that asks ten bestselling novelists this very question. Each author responded with three books: the best one-day read, best for a long weekend, ones to savor all summer long, and those that you can pick up and put down repeatedly.
The players include Augusten Burroughs, Jackie Collins, Nelson DeMille, Janet Evanovich, Elizabeth Gilbert, Philippa Gregory, Sophie Kinsella, James Patterson, Jodi Picoult (shown here), and Danielle Steel.
Here are a few highlights:
For quick reads, Sophie Kinsella mentioned one of my favorites, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) by Mark Haddon. Danielle Steel’s pick, listed just below Jodi Picoult’s, was
Change of Heart (2008) by Jodi Picoult. Or less specifically, “Anything by Jodi Picoult.”
More than one author went back to her childhood with her pick for collections to savor all summer. 
Janet Evanovich loves all 65 Years of Little Golden Books, and Elizabeth Gilbert favors
The Treasury of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Jodi Picoult has a great recommendations when she picked The Best American Short Stories anthologies for good dabbling books.
For a full rundown of all authors picks for all four categories, check out the CNN/Real Simple article titled Top authors pick best summer books
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