The View at the Beach: Our Favorite Summer Reads

Now's your chance to catch up on some great ones, from an 1889 classic to Grisham's latest.

All inclusive.

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It doesn't matter how much you read -- there is always a special place, just on the horizon, where you'd like to spend more time reading. Most people call this "summer." And the kinds of things you read there are often very different from the digest on your phone or laptop. Books, yes, but ones that can pull you away from reality, or change the way you look at it, or both. Here are the books that the writers of Bloomberg View are reading this summer.

The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest
By Cixin Liu