If you’re like me, you started your summer with an overly ambitious reading list that’s been (mostly) neglected. Now that the time for beach reading is nearly done, you may find yourself staring woefully at a pile of almost-finished novels. Just be grateful that you didn’t try to start the season off with some Dostoyevsky. Trust me. Vowing to finish The Idiot in June is a great way to guarantee that you won’t finish anything by August.

So here’s your quest, should you choose to accept it: Knuckle down and finish something meaty before it’s fall. We’re talking a hardcore literature binge. No more teen vampire romances for us. If you need ideas, take a look at these:

• Let’s start with a list of underrated authors compiled by Publishers Weekly. I’m   pretty sure I haven’t read the work of anyone on here, so I’ll definitely be looking them up! Don’t you love being the one to introduce an awesome book to your friends and coworkers?
• I’m really, really far behind if I want to read all the books suggested by JPS author Josh Lambert’s weekly column, On The Bookshelf, featured by Tablet Magazine. I do, though. Each of the books he highlights sound like they should be at the top of my list.
• Super Sad True Love Story has been all over the internet this summer. I can’t believe that I haven’t read it yet…dystopian literature has been my favorite since I stole The Giver from my sister in fourth grade! Clearly I’m a terrible, lazy person. I swear I just bought a copy.  Shteyngart’s new novel, according to some, indicates that books by Russian-Jewish immigrants are now quite the thing. Here he is in a podcast with Joshua Cohen, author of Witz, discussing their individual takes on dystopian America as a book setting.
• Rachel Shukert is just a never ending source of hilarity. Her first memoir, in case you missed it, was Have You No Shame?, a witty and genuine look into her childhood as a Jewish girl in Nebraska and her attempts to break into acting in New York. She also wrote Everything’s Coming Up Moses: A Gypsy Seder, and juxtapositions of campy musicals and biblical tales are a genre I will support to the bitter end. Her second memoir, Everything Is Going To Be Great, chronicles her tour through Europe as a recent college graduate. To get an idea of what she’s all about, take a listen to this excerpt from Everything Is Going To Be Great.

What are you waiting for? Get off the internet and read! Well, first you should use the internet to procure reading material, and I suppose you might as well keep surfing while you wait for said book to arrive, but then you should hole up and read for as long as possible.