What to Read to Wake Up Your Brain

Summer is the ideal season for fun, frothy reads. On languorous weekends or hard-earned vacations, many people skew their literary diet toward lighter fare—fast-paced thrillers, steamy rom-coms—rather than, say, an in-depth history or an experimental novel. But fall is fast approaching. For some, that means a return to school; for many others, it represents the end of the most leisurely time of the year. Whether or not you’re heading back to the classroom, you may soon be tasked with, or else…