With all due respect to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the spring is the best time to plan your summer reading (besides, this magazine isn't the place to explore the racier topics in his poem "Locksley Hall"). If you go to the beach in August without a couple of good, fat, books already researched and acquired, you risk spending your precious time in expensive resort bookstores, browsing among stacks of trashy titles, embarrassing yourself with plaintive requests to friends or relatives for books, or, even worse, reducing yourself to working your way through a stack of moldering Archie comics. Your reading time is too precious to waste—don't become a poster geek for the Wasted Summer Reading Foundation!