Summer reading list

What are you hoping to
read this summer? We posed this question to the Century staff, a group of people with diverse tastes
and interests. Along with commenting on our choices, feel free to post your own
in the comments. --Ed.

The Chatelet Apprentice, by Jean-François Parot.
I've been re-invigorating my French with the mystery novels of  French diplomat Jean-François Parot.
(Several titles are available in English.) As police commissioner Nicolas Le
Floch works to solves crimes in 18^th-century Paris, author Parot expands the plot
with descriptions of the era's culture, political intrigues and haute cuisine.

The Greater Journey, by David McCullough.
Before I turn away from Paris, I want to read McCullough's book about the city
in the 1800s, and about the many Americans of that era--James Fennimore Cooper,
Mary Cassatt, Oliver Wendell Holmes--who went to France in their youth and then
on to acclaim in art, medicine or politics.