Summer Reading

I'm a little disappointed by the number of books I've read and posted about this year, but I'm not too worried--summer is on the way! In exactly five weeks, I will have some serious free time on my hands, which is bound to be filled with lovely, lovely books. Here are some of the ones on my list of possibilities:

• The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien: I've always been intrigued by this book, but I've never made the time to read it. That ends now. Besides, the AP students at my school are assigned this book every year. Am I going to allow myself to be outread by high schoolers?
• The Help, by Kathryn Stockett: This got a great review in Entertainment Weekly. Sometimes that's all it takes.
• Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory, by Roy Blount, Jr.: How do you not love that subtitle? I'm a big fan of RBJ on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me (remember, I'm an NPR geek), and I imagine his take on English will be delicious.
• When I Grow Up: A Memoir, by Juliana Hatfield: Sometimes I get a case of '90s nostalgia, and this looks like the tonic.
• How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time, by Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer: See above. Sassy kind of defined me in the early to mid '90s. Back then, you were either a girl who read Sassy or a girl who read Teen. The girls who read Sassy were fewer in number and felt far superior.
• Tender is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald: As much as I love The Great Gatsby, it's high time I read something else by Fitzgerald.

Any suggestions?