Twenty top authors' summer reading

The Guardian asked twenty authors (including Anne Enright, Rutger Bregman, David Nicholls, Zadie Smith, and Colm Tóibín) about their summer reading.

Curtis Sittenfeld's contribution to the survey:

Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn is a delicious, sexy, insightful, big-hearted joy (that, believe it or not, features both the pandemic and divorce). After her marriage ends, middle-aged Brooklyn mom-of-three Rachel Bloomstein goes on many dates with men and women, has wild yet as-responsible-as-possible sex, and works on creating an AI chatbot that will combine the best parts of all her romantic prospects. Rachel is so open, generous-hearted and funny that reading about her makes you feel like one of the friends who comes over for drinks on her balcony.

Read about more books in the survey.

The Page 69 Test: Animal Instinct.

My Book, The Movie: Animal Instinct.

--Marshal Zeringue