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.

Right now I'm
reading In the Garden of Beasts, by
master storyteller Erik Larson. It is the captivating story of William E. Dodd,
U.S. ambassador to Germany during Hitler's rise to power. Dodd's young adult
daughter Martha, a socialite who had affairs with the head of the Gestapo and a
Russian spy, steals the show. Next I plan to read Stephen Ozment's sweeping
survey A Mighty Fortress: A New History
of the German People.

I am slowly
working my way through Augustine's Confessions,
using Maria Boulding's translation. This may not be the best translation from a
scholar's point of view, but I find it elegant and a pleasure to read. I want
to follow this up with Garry Wills's Augustine's
Confessions, part of Princeton University Press's new series on the "Lives
of Great Religious Books."