Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. Success Great! Check your inbox and click the link. Error Please enter a valid email address. The Chicago Sun-Times newspapers Best of Summer section published over the weekend contains a guide to summer reads that features real authors and fake books that they did not write was partially generated by artificial intelligence, the person who generated it told 404 Media.The article, called Summer Reading list for 2025, suggests reading Tidewater by Isabel Allende, a multigenerational saga set in a coastal town where magical realism meets environmental activism. Allendes first climate fiction novel explores how one family confronts rising sea levels while uncovering long-buried secrets. It also suggests reading The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, another science-driven thriller by the author of The Martian. This time, the story follows a programmer who discovers that an AI system has developed consciousnessand has been secretly influencing global events for years. Neither of these books exist, and many of the books on the list either do not exist or were written by other authors than the ones they are attributed to.