What Books to Read Before Summer Ends

Although Labor Day marks the last hurrah for white pants, barbeques and kids up late on a Sunday night, it is not the end of the season. Until the clock strikes midnight on Sept. 21, it's still summer.

So whether you're getting around to a new book you boght this spring, or borrowing one from the Oak Bend branch of the , there's still time to squeeze in another good book before summer ends.

Not sure what to read for your last hurrah of summer? Fear not, we've cobbled together some best-sellers from The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, along with a few staff favorites from summers past. All you need to make your experience complete is a nice cold glass of iced tea lemonade.

Fiction

• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - A wife mysteriously disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary.
• Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters - A tangled love story spanning 50 years from Hollywood to the Italian coast.
• Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood - An I.R.S. officer and an F.B.I. agent fight corruption and a mutual attraction while investigating a Ponzi scheme.
• The Imperfectionist by Tom Rachman - A series of short stories with interconnected characters woven into the rise and fall of an English-language newspaper in Rome.

Non-fiction

• Wild by Cheryl Strayed - A woman's account of a life-changing 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand - The story of Louis Zamperini, a World War II bombardier, POW and Olympian.
• The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer - The author, the son of a single mom, recounts how the flawed men of a local bar became his fathers, teaching him about love, literature, baseball and the drinking life.
• Crazy For The Storm by Norman Ollestad - Alone in a blizzard at night, the author and sole survivor of a single-engine plane crash hit the side of a steep mountain. He tells how he, as an 11-year-old boy, made it down the mountain.

Be sure to tell us in your comments about your favorite summer read.