Summer reading

What do you recommend? Qué me recomiendas?
I love the long summer afternoons reading on the beach with a good book.. so feel free to recommend anything... thanks!!! Here are my recommends... from what I have read this year:

- "Persepolis" Marjane Satrapi.
A wonderful comic about the life of a 10 year olf in Iran and the contradictions.
- " The namesake" Jhumpa Lahiri.
An Indian family coming to the States leaving behind their families and lives to start new ones.
- "Seda" Alessandro Baricco.
A wonderful short love story about what could have been and wasn't.

- "The razor's edge" W. Somerset Maugham.
A classic of American literature. I really enjoyed reading it.
"After de quake" Haruki Murakami.
The surrealism of Murakami applied to short stories right after the quake of 1995.
"Youth" J.M. Coetzee
Because I had never read anything by this south african Nobel prize winner.
The story of an expatriat young writer struggling to make a living from what he loves to do.
- "Girls guide to hunting and fishing" Melissa Bark
Being single and in NYC. I had to read the more real "we are not all sex in the city types" alternative. Light-hearted and funny.
- "Me talk pretty one day" David Sedaris
My first Sedaris and sure not my last one. Pretty hilarious.
- "Maus" Spiegelman
Another comic. This time an interestign approach to the Holocaust.
- "How to be good" Nick Hornby
The title may be a little misleading. The book is pretty irreverent.
- "How Proust can change your life" Alain de Botton
- "On love" Alain de Botton
- "The romantic movement" Alain de Botton
I went through this "de Botton face" and couldn't stop reading it. Ruth and me would share books, comment.... we even wanted to meet him. One of the most intelligent writers that talk about what we most care about: love, falling in love, falling out of love and starting all over again.
- "The wisdom of insecurity" Alan Watts
Zen. Peace. Wisdom. You feel better after reading it.
- "What I loved" Siri Hustvedt
I was curious because she's Paul Auster's wife. Amazing writer, really intelligent woman, great art references... but I couldn't totally get into the main character.
- "Guia triste de Paris" Bryce Echenique
Porque Echenique me encanta y echaba de menos leer en castellano. Estos son historias cortas de expatriados en Paris.
- "Conversations with students" with Louis Kahn
After watching the movie "my architect" I was pretty fascinated with the figure of Louis Kahn. This short book is a pretty good introduction to his mind.
- "Letters to a young poet" Rainer Maria Rilke
About creativity, loving what you do, doubting about you being any good, feeling like shit and feeling great and the emotional rollercoaster....

I am reading:
- El Quijote.
Porque es de tapas duras y no lo puedo llevar en el metro. Poco a poco.
- "Mrs. Dalloway" Virginia Wolf
It's pretty tough. I need to be on the right mindset.
- "Linked" Albert Lazlo-Barabasi
An interesting compendium of theories to prove how everyone or everything is connected. From the 6 degrees of separation to many other theories. Pretty interesting.
- "Henry and June" Anais Nin
Her diaries from 1931-1932 when she met Henry Miller. Too romantic for my taste right now.
- "Zero" Charles Seife
The story of the number zero from the romans to our time. It's taking me a long time because my mathematical mind is pretty sleep these days (if it ever was awake...)
- "A Heartbreaking work of staggering genius" David Eggers
I really really really wanted to like it.. but it's taking me a long time to read. I am not sure about this one yet.