Picks and Pans Review: Great Reads: Celebs' Summer Picks

UPDATED 07/31/2006 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 07/31/2006 at 01:00 AM EDT

GEENA DAVIS: "I just bought Born to Rule [by Julia P. Gelardi], about five granddaughters of Queen Victoria who each became a queen ... of Russia, of Spain, of Greece ... I wanted to read about what it would have been like to be a woman in power more than a century ago."

LAURA BUSH: "I mainly read fiction. The Night Journal [by Elizabeth Crook] is historical fiction about the West, and that's where I hike every year. The President just read Challenger Park [by Stephen Harrigan] and highly recommends it."

BROOKE SHIELDS: Beach reading? "If I can even get to the beach—I don't even know if I am going to have time. But I have just started Jay McInerney's The Good Life."

HILARY DUFF: "I am reading The Alchemist [by Paulo Coelho] right now. I really like it."

SUPERMAN BRANDON ROUTH: "I don't know if most people will want to read something this heavy, but I really recommend Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It will take you all summer to read but you just might learn something, be inspired and have your opinions changed."

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