My Summer Reading List
If you’re like me, as soon as the temperatures start rising, you’re plotting out your summer reading list. I have a bad habit of buying all the books even though my ‘to be read’ stack is only getting bigger. I’ll be spending my weekends outside by the pool or at the lake though, and I’m finally going to tackle that to be read pile – and probably add to it while we’re at it.
Here is my summer reading list.
Happy Place
Emily Henry has become a staple on my summer reading list. I’ve loved her previous books – especially Beach Read – so of course I added her just-released novel, Happy Place, to my stack. The story follows Harriet and Wyn who have been the perfect couple since college except now they have broken up, aren’t telling their friends, and find themselves sharing a bedroom during their friend group’s yearly getaway. Surely they can fake happiness for a week, right? What could go wrong? I can’t wait to read this one!
A Court of Silver Flames
I’ve been putting off the final book in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series since I dove headfirst into the world at the beginning of the year. I didn’t want it to end! It’s time, though, and A Court of Silver Flames is my first read of the summer. I’m sure finishing this one is only going to inspire me to keep going down the Sarah J. Maas rabbit hole. I hear the Throne of Glass series is quite good…
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
So many of my friends have raved about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and it is high on my summer reading list as a title to tackle. The novel follows friends Sam Masur and Sadie Green as they go from nobodies to somebodies, and explores all the peaks and valleys of friendship, fame, success, failure, and, above all, love, over the course of thirty years.
The Measure
The Measure is another book a friend of mine has insisted that I read, so much so she asks about once a week “Have you read this yet?” And so, on my summer reading list goes The Measure and I’m pretty excited about this one. The world wakes up one day to find a wooden box on their collective doorsteps and inside of it is the answer to the exact number of years they will live. Society falls into a frenzy as they debate: Do they want to know? What will they do with that information? I have a feeling this one is going to be thought-provoking.
The Only Survivors
It’s not a summer reading list without a thriller! I picked The Only Survivors as my Book of the Month Club pick a couple of months ago and it has been hanging out in that to be read stack ever since. I didn’t realize until later that the book is by Megan Miranda who wrote another all-time favorite thriller of mine, All The Missing Girls. In The Only Survivors, a group of former classmates survive a horrific crash that kills multiple friends and teachers. One year later, a survivor dies by suicide, and the remaining survivors make a pact to help one another through. They gather every year to keep their promise, but one of them wants to distance herself from the group – until she learns another survivor has died. She finds herself pulled back in just as one of their group goes missing. Sounds like the perfect poolside book, doesn’t it?
The Reunion
Know what else a summer reading list needs? A rom-com. The Reunion was another Book of the Month Club find and I purposefully saved it for the summer months. Two former teen stars, Liv Latimer and Ransom Joel, reconnect at a reunion of their show, Girl on the Verge, and Liv finds that Ransom, her former on-screen love interest and off-screen best friend, has only gotten better with age. They quickly reconnect, but there are new cast rivalries and the prospect of a reboot overshadowing their reunion which leads Liv to question, well, everything.
There you have it – my summer reading list. Tell me – what are you reading this summer?
