Best reads for your summer vacation
(CBS News) On the beach, at a mountain cabin, or just relaxing in the back yard, summer vacation offers the time to enjoy a good book.
But don't what to pick? Check out some of the season's best page-turners, as recommended on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" by Sara Nelson, editorial director of Books and Kindle for Amazon.com.
Nelson's Summer Reading List:
- "The English Girl," Daniel Silva (Harper)
- "Coming Clean," Kimberly Rae Miller (Amazon Publishing)
- "The Silent Wife," A.S.A Harrison (Penguin)
- "The Shining Girls," Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books)
- "The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells," Andrew Sean Greer (Ecco)
- "I Wear the Black Hat," Chuck Klosterman (Scribner)
Honorable Mentions:
- "The Lost Girls," Jennifer Baggett (Harper Perennial)
- "Visitation Street," Ivy Pochoda (Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco)
- "The Husbands Secret," Liane Moriartys (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
- "My Education," Susan Choi (Viking Adult)
- "Night Film," Marisha Pessl (Random House)
- "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," Neal Gaiman (William Morrow)
- "The Son," Philipp Meyer (Ecco)
Watch what Nelson had to say about some of these books in the video above.