By my count I have read 42 books so far this year not counting the materials I use in preaching and teaching.

I have read some that are great: Letters to a Young Evangelical, The Inescapable Love of God, The Blind Side, Leaving Church
I have read some that are not so great: American Fascists

But what I have not read so far this year is fiction.  So, I attempt now to remedy that.

This summer I commit to reading almost exclusively fiction.  I know that I will probably slip up and read something that’s not.  Non-fiction is like crack to me.

But I want to enjoy a fictitious summer.  Which is where you come in.

Last year, I went on a fiction spree and enjoyed some great works.  Many of those were suggested by you.

You can look at my left side-bar and see that I have already begun the process.  I also intend to read Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.

What suggestions do you have for me?  My preference at the outset is more contemporary than classics.

I don’t want to read anything about a cat solving crimes or a down on his luck detective going sober long enough to figure out who is killing pretty coeds.

I also don’t want to read anything that has sweet potatoes or ya-ya in the title.

So what fiction works do you recommend? Anyone wanna do a book club on a work of fiction?