Journalist Nicholas D. Kristof offers his summer reading list with “great novels relating to social justice.”  He asks, why read fluff when you can read “mindful page-turners” on the beach?

Have you read any of these?  since high school?

• Germinal by Emile Zola
• Pale Fire by Vladimr Nabokov (author of Lolita)
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
• Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Would you rather stick with nonfiction? NPR’s Rachel Smythe has these suggestions:

• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal (Read my review here)
• Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden
• Turn Right At Machu Picchu by Mark Adams