Summer may be over, but this collection of summer short stories from The Guardian is still worth checking out.

Here is a summer reading list, courtesy of the readers of The Nation.

Bill Marx of PRI’s The World has posted a summer reading list of fiction and non-fiction in translation.

This book list was compiled by Donald Barthelme for his students and later reproduced in The Believer.

Here are some more books to add to your reading list, courtesy of the New York Times Book Review.

Kazuo Ishiguro, Malcolm Gladwell, and Colm Toibin, among others, share their favorite books of 2009 in a recent feature in The Observer.

In the December issue of the Atlantic, literary editor Benjamin Schwarz picks his top 25 books of 2009, among them The Children’s Book by A.S. Byatt, The Third Reich Trilogy by Richard Evans, and It’s Beginning to Hurt by James Lasdun.

Cynthia Crossen of the Wall Street Journal discusses the “canon wars”–the debate over whether, and which, modern texts should be added to the works of literature being taught and studied within academia.  She also suggests several sources of classic book lists: Clifton Fadiman’s Lifetime Reading Plan, the St. John’s College Reading List, the appendices to Harold Bloom’s The Western Canon, and Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at a Novel.

This suggested reading list from the American Library Association includes authors like Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Allison, and Peter Cameron.

If you’re still trying to find the perfect books for summer reading, perhaps these lists from Bank Street will help.  They are divided into books suitable for students in lower, middle, and upper grades.