Adult Summer Reading Program -- 2015: Book Lists

Every once in a while, NPR's go-to books guru Nancy Pearl sends Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep a tall stack of books. They're generally "under-the-radar" reads — titles she thinks deserve more attention than they've been getting. Here are some of her fiction picks, to kick off your summer reading list.

Janet Maslin offers up her reading picks for the summer of 2015.

To keep you reading all summer, not all of the books on this week’s list are out yet (the books appear in chronological order of publishing date as you scroll through the list) but all are worth your time this summer!

Don’t blame us if you spend this summer reading instead of getting done the things that need to be done!

Everyone loves an antihero, or at least everyone loves the antiheroes that they don’t have to deal with in their real lives. Here are some of our favorite characters that we love to hate. Or, sometimes, just love to love.

The antihero is complex and unknowable, and because of that, he/she is fascinating in ways a pure hero or villain could never be.

An exhaustive guide to NPR's top picks of 2014.

The must-read novels, memoirs and history books released in 2015 so far.

Heroes, antiheroes, and villains galore!

The annual Sunday Book Review's Summer Reading issue.

Seventy-Eight books chosen by the Gay Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table of the American Library Association.

In our third annual list of “75 Notable Translations,” we again offer an admittedly incomplete collection of the year’s English translations. We hope you’ll both find some new to-reads and comment on those we’ve missed.