I've dipped into Das Kapital again. Most of it is dreadfully dull, but some good stuff. Loathe seedy old Marx, but it's one of the most influential books written.

Strange and Norrell is terrific. I guess I'm one of the few people that actualy liked the ending.

Not a new book or a summer one, but stay away from Howard's Bonaparte's Warriors. Applingly bad novel with a lame plot and the most one-dimensional cardboard cutouts imaginable.