In this week's podcast the Guardian books team choose their pick of the summer reading lists, and we listen in to some of the recommendations that came in from our readers, in response to our Summer reads roundup in the Guardian Review.
We also meet the authors of two of the most entertaining books competing for space in your suitcase. For fiction lovers, we meet the American short-story writer George Saunders about his unseasonally titled latest collection, Tenth of December. He explains why he always tries to offset his satirical yarns with tenderness, how he likes writing children, and why he has devoted his career to the short story.
For those who prefer non-fiction, the antiquarian book dealer and former academic Rick Gekoski tells us about the forger who became a murderer and some of the other bibio-scroundrels who feature in his new book about missing works of art: Lost, Stolen and Shredded.
Reading list
Tenth of December by George Saunders (Bloomsbury)
Lost, Stolen and Shredded by Rick Gekoski (Profile)
The Infatuations by Javier Marías (Hamish Hamilton)
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell (Virago)
The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel (Bloomsbury)
Come To the Edge by Joanna Kavenna(Quercus)
Audiobooks
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World by Jay Rayner
All available from audible.co.uk
