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Browse Barnes & Noble's Summer Reading program for 2024 to find the best beach reads, kids books, and more for your summer reading list.
May 27, 2021 · No matter what you like — thrillers, audiobooks, cookbooks, historical fiction, music books, sci-fi, romance, horror, true crime, sports books, Hollywood tell-alls — we have recommendations ...
Aug 16, 2024 · From thrilling dramas to charming romances to helpful life advice, you'll surely want to have your nose in one of these summer books and beach reads.
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- City of Orange, David Yoon
- Either/Or, Elif Batuman
- You Made A Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi
- Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris
- Yerba Buena, Nina Lacour
- Counterfeit, Kirstin Chen
- Cult Classic, Sloane Crosley
- Nuclear Family, Joseph Han
- The Seaplane on Final Approach, Rebecca Rukeyser
- Tracy Flick Can’T Win, Tom Perrotta
David Yoon’s haunting new novel opens with a man lying supine in a desert, clueless as to what happened to him and where he is. The world has ended. The apocalypse has happened. As pieces of his memory slowly return, it becomes evident that he had a wife and daughter who are now lost forever. As the man figures out how to survive in this new barren...
In Elif Batuman’s second novel, a piquant sequel to her 2017 Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut novel The Idiot, protagonist Selin Karadag, a relentlessly curious Harvard student, ponders the value of love and lust as she mines her life for her burgeoning, semi-autobiographical creative writing. Drawing its title from Kierkegaard’s seminal work, with w...
Akwaeke Emezi delivers a fresh summer romance with their latest novel, You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty. After the devastating loss of her partner, artist Feyi Adekola has nearly rebuilt her life, tentatively easing back into the dating scene. While Feyi begins dating a man who checks off every box, an unexpected spark with someone who’s o...
David Sedaris’ signature wit has always thrived on the macabre, so perhaps it should come as no surprise that his latest collection of essays, Happy-Go-Lucky, written in the wake of the pandemic panic and the social and political unrest of 2020, is some of his darkest—and most astute—writing yet. From the death of his 98-year-old father to mask man...
Nina LaCour is well-known for her YA books, including Watch Over Me and We Are Okay. In Yerba Buena,her first adult novel, she introduces two women—Sara and Emilie—who cross paths while trying to figure out who they really are. Both are flawed, with family trauma to sort through, and they’re instantly drawn to each other. Their pasts, however, migh...
If you appreciate a good caper, you’ll want to pick up Kirstin Chen’s novel about two Asian American women who turn a counterfeit handbag scheme into a big business. The book is written as a confession, which helps readers get to know protagonists Ava and Winnie, and how their lives detoured toward crime. Counterfeitis fast-paced and fun, with smar...
Magical realism meets romance in downtown New York in Sloane Crosley’s witty second novel, Cult Classic. Protagonist Lola is forced to confront her romantic past after she runs into a string of ex-boyfriends, all within the same five-mile radius in Manhattan’s Chinatown. But these occurrences are hardly coincidental, leading Lola on a mysterious an...
Migration, family secrets, and memory collide in Joseph Han’s gorgeous debut novel, Nuclear Family. For the Chos, a Korean American couple living in Hawaii, life has finally settled into comfort—that is, until their son, Jacob, who’s teaching English in Seoul, goes viral for attempting to cross the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea. Little does h...
Mira heads to remote Alaska to spend the summer working at a floundering wilderness lodge. While there, she obsesses over her step-cousin and watches as the lodge owners’ dysfunctional marriage implodes. The Seaplane on Final Approach is a snappy character study and a meditation on sleaziness. Buy Now: The Seaplane on Final Approach on Bookshop | A...
Twenty-four years after he published Election, Tom Perrotta revisits his cult classic antiheroine Tracy Flick in Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Picking up decades after Election left off, the ever-ambitious Tracy returns to navigating the turbulent waters of high school politics—but this time, on the other side of the student-faculty divide. As an assistan...
Jul 17, 2023 · A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great to read by a pool or on a plane, it was fair game...
May 15, 2024 · Here are 20 upcoming books — publishing between late May and August — that we recommend to kick off the summer reading season.
Jun 17, 2024 · We have fans of romance, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and more. We asked our colleagues what they've enjoyed reading most this year — and here are the titles they shared. (And ...
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