Summer School, Part Two

Our list of this summer's best books continues here. See you at the beach! And save some room under the umbrella for us.

Assisted Loving: True Tales of Double Dating with My Dad, Bob Morris Those familiar with Morris’s Sunday Styles column in the New York Times may be surprised by his touching new memoir. If the title isn’t self-explanatory, here’s the pitch: Morris is a middle-aged, gay, dateless, urban connoisseur. His dad’s a hetero, recently widowed, former civil servant who’s ready to swing. Hilarity ensues.

Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline, Tiny Kline Step right up for this reissued, first-hand account of life with the original Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey crew, and the early days at Disneyland, from the circus starlet who all but patented the hang-from-a-trapeze-by-your-teeth act.

Dear American Airlines: A Novel, Jonathan Miles Those hoping for a collection of rants from ticked-off flyers are in for something even better: a fictional tale about how delayed flights and missed connections allow one man to reevaluate himself and his life. Essential content for carry-on.

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), Tom Vanderbilt For a culture that spends as much time as we do behind the wheel, Vanderbilt’s collection of enlightened, often witty insights seems long overdue. Get the audiobook for your next road trip.

The Pixar Touch, David A. Price Pixar today is what Disney was in the 1940s: an all-ages, all-nations dream machine. Here’s the story of how the company came to be – a saga as involving as lil’ Nemo’s trip back home.