Foreign Policy's Beach Books for Wonks

Foreign Policy's June 10th issue includes a nice list of books (fiction and non fiction) suggested by FP "favorite contributors" - this link will go to a one-page listing of the suggestions. Once you have a few titles, look them up in WSU WorldCat then its time to pour the lemonade and start reading! On my list? Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin (the current "one book one Twitter" selection),  Swamplandia, and a re-reading of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (and then I have to finish Drezner's Theories of International Politics and Zombies...and read Physics for Future Presidents (WSU's Common Reading book for next fall, and then...)