Five Summer Reads

Books fall into different categories. Some are more suitable for reading over the summer than others; it is hard to define exactly what makes a book a "summer read," but I think it involves a combination of storytelling, world-building, originality, and insights on something that you wouldn't normally think about. On that basis, here are five suggestions for the next month or two.Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History. It might seem strange to describe a blow-by-blow account of a financial crash as gripping, especially when it happened a hundred years ago, but 1929 genuinely is. Sorkin’s blend of character study, geopolitical history and economic clarity, which will be familiar to readers of his book on the 2008 crash, work magnificently on its illustrious predecessor. Rebecca Kuang, Katabasis. A weird, funny, provocative, fascinating and theologically thought-provoking novel about hell, rivalry and academia, which you can read more about in my…