Guilty pleasure books for the summer

I came across this list of reading "guilty pleasures" as recommended by a number of well known authors, intended to give you some summer holiday reading.  I haven't heard of all of the "famous" authors, but that's my ignorance no doubt, and probably some are American, as the list is in Time magazine. 

It has some good ideas, though, and I can save you ploughing through 16 pages on the very clunky Time website with the list below.  Mind you, if you do have the time to wade through it, click here.

Or you can be more selective and read just some of the excellent justifications of their choices produced by the writers,  by clicking on the titles in the list.  I was especially pleased to see Alexander McCall Smith's recommendation of Dick Francis.

Jane Smiley	Justine by Marquis de Sade
Tina Brown	The Manny by Holly Peterson
Alexander McCall Smith	Anything by Dick Francis
Joyce Carol Oates	Mad Magazine
Anne Lamott	Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Margaret Drabble	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Nathan Englander	Literary Murder by Batya Gur
Martha Southgate	Carrie by Stephen King
Janet Evanovich	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8 comic books
Susanna Moore	Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
Pete Hamill	Bomba the Jungle Boy at the Giant Cataract by Roy Rockwood
Ann Packer	Love and Work by Gwyneth Cravens
Karen Russell	The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Doug Stumpf	The Best of Russian Cooking by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin
David Baldacci	Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
Tom Hayden	Boomsday by Christopher Buckley