I like Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" for light fun - I really like non fiction - for anyone who has spent the summer away at camp?? (against your will perhaps?) - serious, interesting, sad, and funny stories - "Sleepaway" Eric Simonoff it is full of great short stories --- and a very, gifted writer, funny but true and sad tales ... David Sedaris - want heavy? "The Day I went Missing" Jennifer Miller very unsettling memoir - If I get desperate, I have been known to read the phone book in a strange city -