Summer readings
Guardian writers on favourite summer books
Summer voyages: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Robert McCrum: It was meant as a travel guide for boating fans – but then the author's voice took over and turned it into a comic masterpiece
Summer readings: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Chris Michael: Reading this dark tale of suburban psychosis under the Aegean sun was like smuggling trouble into paradise
Summer readings: Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Sarah Crown: A holiday that becomes a desperate contest with the agents of the Dark, this is the most thrilling summer imaginable
Summer readings: The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Megan Clarke: A bewitching love story, this novel also gave me a notable victory over my sister
Summer readings: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Joanna Clarke-Jones: The novel's exotic Caribbean island was a perfect counterpoint to my gap-year European inter-railing
Summer readings: In the Steps of St Paul by HV Morton
Martin Belam: Reading about the early church's great proselytiser visiting a region he knew centuries earlier brought home his achievements
Summer readings: A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Hannah Booth: My enjoyment of this brilliant, thronging novel was enriched by reading it in India, and it in turn deepened my appreciation of the country
Summer readings: The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
Robert White: This history of 1911's long hot summer is a fascinating portrait of Britain on the brink of seismic change
Summer readings: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Mary Hamilton: Peculiarly well-suited to the Kindle, this novel is also perfect for those summers when you want to get away from your holiday
Summer readings: Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Penny Woods: Far from being unputdownable, this novel demands you cast it aside and emulate its great Greek hero in living life to the full
Summer readings: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Adam Vaughan: Summer may seem an odd time to read McCarthy's devastating apocalypse novel, but it certainly brings holiday joys into focus
Summer readings: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Antonia Windsor: The story of Sophia's relationship and her grandmother is a meditation on love and nature. Perfect to read beside the sea
Summer readings: Captain Alatriste by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Richard Lea: The adventures of this 17th-century swordsman serve up a glorious slice of Madrid in the golden age
Summer readings: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Alison Flood: A family holiday on the Greek island of Paxos was the perfect setting for my first encounter with hermit crabs and a classic tale
Summer readings: One Day by David Nicholls
Sarah Phillips: I read this on a rooftop overlooking Athens – but thanks to its superb evocation of Britain in the 90s, I was right back home
Summer readings: Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier
Harry Cockburn: Thanks to a cycling holiday, my memories of rural France and of Alain-Fournier's first and only novel are gloriously entwined
Summer readings: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Saptarshi Ray: The parallels between Orwell's masterpiece and my ancestral home of Kolkata were myriad for me one hot summer holiday
Summer readings: The Writing on the Wall by Miklós Bánffy
Julian Glover: A trilogy of significant and addictive works describing the decline of Hungary in the years before the first world war
Summer readings: It by Stephen King
Xan Brooks: King's sleek, scary and rambunctiously entertaining novel was required reading among my group of friends in 1987
Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Veronica Horwell: Though Daudet wrote most of the pieces on the train from Paris, his quiet Provençal tales provide a vivid evocation of place
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