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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 ...
- 24 Books to Read This Summer - The New York Times
We can tell you about the buzziest new books arriving this...
- Summer Reading 2023: The Best New Books - The New York Times
These novels go well with sand, sunscreen and hot...
- 24 Books to Read This Summer - The New York Times
May 26, 2023 · We asked some of our regular book critics what soon-to-be-published titles they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what they said.
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...
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1. The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer
via merchant Release date: May 9, 2023 For fans of: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fineby Gail Honeyman Though main character Clover Brooks is a death doula—someone who grants last wishes—The Collected Regrets of Clover is a life-affirming, feel-good story. “I went into this book expecting something sad,” says Reader’s Digest books editor Tracey Neithercott. “And it isa story about death. But it’s also a wonderfully hopeful story about living your life.”...
2. The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
via merchant Release date:May 23, 2023 For fans of: The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela Summer reading doesn’t have to be light and fluffy. Pick up a copy of Brandon Taylor’s latest if you want something to sink your teeth into by the pool. The Late Americans is about a group of friends fighting to survive and stick together in the brutal waters of modern America. Rife with themes of sex (it’s an LGBTQ+ read, by the way), abuse and chosen family, this one will stick with you for a while....
3. The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
via merchant Release date:May 30, 2023 For fans of: Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley and The Half Moonby Mary Beth Keane Could we even call this a list of must-read summer books without including Steven Rowley’s latest book about friendship? There’s a good reason The Celebrants has already appeared on our list of favorite beach reads and Buzzfeed‘s “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2023.” Our books editor says it’s one of the best books she’s read all month. “Rowley has created such livi...
10. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell
via merchant Release date:Aug. 8, 2023 For fans of: The Couple Next Doorby Shari Lapena True crime podcast listeners, unite! After all, some of the best books for summer are gripping psychological thrillers. In None of This Is True, podcaster Alix Summer takes a chance when a perfect stranger, who happens to be her birthday twin, offers an intriguing topic for the series. As Alix gets to know her new muse, things get darker and darker. When the woman suddenly disappears, Alix has to wonder: I...
11. Gone Tonight by Sarah Pekkanen
via merchant Release date:Aug. 1, 2023 For fans of: The Golden Coupleby Greer Hendricks If you love twisty psychological thrillers and unreliable narrators, this is bound to become one of your top summer books. When I picked up Gone Tonight, I thought it would be a heartwarming mother-daughter story. But soon, the plot picked up pace, and I started doubting the characters’ viewpoints and motivations. Sarah Pekkanen has spun a nail-biting tale of lies and love that might have you asking how fa...
14.The Beach at Summerly by Beatriz Williams
via merchant Release date:June 27, 2023 For fans of: The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff or The Alice Network by Kate Quinn What do you get when you smash together a sumptuous New England setting, Cold War espionage and blossoming romance? The Beach at Summerly, the latest page-turner from historical fiction author Beatriz Williams. In the 1950s, Emilia Winthrop is years past the drama of her young adult days spent on glittering, resplendent Winthrop Island. But the past comes knocking when...
15.Loot by Tania James
via merchant Release date:June 13, 2023 For fans of: Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones and The Pillars of the Earthby Ken Follett Called “a beautifully realized historical novel about art and hope and science” by Goodreads reviewer Candace, Loot is one of the richest, most complex summer books of the year. In the late 1700s, a young woodworker named Abbas is tasked with creating a massive wooden tiger for an Indian sultan. When the sultan’s kingdom falls, he boards a ship for France....
16.The Housekeepers by Alex Hay
via merchant Release date: July 4, 2023 For fans of: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo and Harlem Shuffleby Colson Whitehead The Housekeepers, Alex Hay’s fun, fast-paced debut, is shot through with themes of power and class. When Mrs. King is sacked from her position as a high-society housekeeper, she gathers a group of spurned women to help her pull off the heist of the century. The plan? Infiltrate a much-anticipated costume ball and filch as many valuables as possible before the party ends. Bu...
17.Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
via merchant Release date: May 2, 2023 For fans of: November 9by Colleen Hoover Colleen Hoover fans looking for another author whose work brings the drama and swoons should check out Carley Fortune’s latest, Meet Me at the Lake. Ten years ago, Fern and Will spent a magical day together. Their connection was intense—instant and undeniable. They promised to meet in the same place one year later. When Fern showed up, Will was nowhere to be found. Now, he’s appeared at her door (nine years too la...
18. Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
via merchant Release date: June 6, 2023 For fans of: Happy Placeby Emily Henry When I got my hands on an advance copy of Annabel Monaghan’s ultimate summer read earlier this year, I knew she’d created something special. Same Time Next Summer perfectly bottles the aching pain and passion of teenage love and asks readers to imagine: What if you got a second chance at your first love? What if, as an adult, you got to try it all with that special someone again? Samantha Holloway is engaged to a g...
20. What Looks Like Bravery by Laurel Braitman
via merchant Release date:March 14, 2023 For fans of: Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano and The Glass Castleby Jeannette Walls Laurel Braitman’s memoir gripped me from the start. In What Looks Like Bravery, she writes about grief—anticipatory and after-the-fact heartache—with refreshing candor. Braitman’s father was a larger-than-life figure who taught her to be the kind of woman who would never need a man. After his terminal cancer diagnosis, he taught her to be a survivor. Now, she revisits...
21.Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen
via merchant Release date:July 4, 2023 For fans of: Crying in H Martby Michelle Zauner Beth Nguyen has spent fewer than 24 hours of adulthood with her mother. When she was still a baby, her father fled Vietnam and took her with him. Her memoir, Owner of a Lonely Heart, chronicles her American upbringing, snatched moments with her Vietnamese mother over the years and her own experience of becoming a mother. It’s a moving book about family, identity and where and how we find belonging. Shop Now...
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Jul 9, 2021 · Remember that summer reading list your English teacher would give you before you left for break every year? Think of this as the adult version of that list. Here are your 2021 must-read books (both fiction and nonfiction) to keep the brain wheels turning this summer.
