Although the weather here in New England has been cool and rainy for days, the calendar says it’s summer, and various colleagues are heading points north, south and west for some R&R over the next several weeks. In case you’re looking for an alternative to reading about IT monitoring, here’s a look at some non-IT titles people are packing - feel free to add a comment with your picks for summer reading!

Fiction:

WWW:Wake by Robert J. Sawyer

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar

Star Trek (the novelization of the new movie)

Non-Fiction:

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines by Richard A. Muller

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Lipstick Jihad: A memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni

Gang Leader for A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

The Agony and the Agony: Raising Your Teenager Without Losing Your Mind by Betty Londergan

Tuesday With Morrie & other titles by Mitch Albom

Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck

Here are some classics available for Stanza on the iPhone, a free book reader rated “totally awesome” by one of our engineers:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells

The Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Captains Daughter by Aleksandr Pushkin

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

These and lots of other titles are available for free or cheap!