Summer Reading Picks

With summer officially upon us, here are my official recommendations for great beach books this season:

Blink by Malcolm Gladwell - you'll never ride an elevator the same way again.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe - Wolfe's novels require time and focus you're unlikely to get any other time but summer. This is my current favorite of his work, three interwoven novellas revealing the secret history of human colonization of twin worlds.

On the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke - I am a Burkean conservative, and this was the book which made me one. It was the French Revolution which unleashed monstrous, authoritarian tyranny on the world, and Burke was the first to take it on.

102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn - a harrowing account of the fight for survival inside the Twin Towers on 9/11.

The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis - because it will open your eyes to why people do what they do.

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - the most influential of the Founding Fathers, whom almost no one today sees as such.

The Black Book of Communism by Courtois et al - because these murderous regimes have not been held to account for their crimes to this day.

V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd - because the movie's coming out, and you'll want to know how it compares to the graphic novel.

Blog by Hugh Hewitt - no explanation necessary.