8 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Although it may be hard to believe, summer is right around the corner. It's time to start compiling a list of your must-reads for the summer, and we've got eight that you'll want to add. As we wrap up another month of MashableReads, we talked with author Molly Antopol about her top eight favorite books of all-time

In addition to giving us a list of her favorites, Antopol gave us a brief summary of why each pick made her list. Check out the books below, and be sure to look out for the next MashableReads selection

1. All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Author: Edward P. Jones
"Every one of these stories blows me away; Jones writes with precision, heart, and such a deep sense of history and politics. I must have read this book a dozen times, trying to figure out how he managed to give every one of these stories the heft and scope of a novel." Read more...