Summer reading

So, my recent reading list has been rather varied.
I've just started Chaucer's 'the Canterbury Tales' out of my Grandmother's 'Great Books of the Western World' collection. Also, I've been on a kick of rather interesting, but depressing memoirs recently too.
However, there have been a couple of very enjoyable filler books which I keep thinking would make for great reads at the beach.
The latest is Carl Hiassen's 'Sick Puppy'. Fabulous, totally implausible, but so much fun. This is the first I've read by him, but I already have another waiting.
The other is called 'the Raw Shark Texts' by Steven Hall. It's one of those deals where you have to just go with it. Otherwise, you're likely to discount the main character as a nut & the author as a bit overly-dramatic (sort of like punk-rock). There is a good review by the author Audrey Niffenegger on it's Amazon page.
I also read a collection of short thrillers called 'Thriller: Stories to Keep You Up All Night' put together by James Patterson and David Liss. Some of the authors are pretty creative, but many of the stories were kind of graphic without being all that interesting.