Summer is already a few weeks in, so I am a little behind, but here is a list of summer reading suggestions collected from my Facebook friends and people who follow the EDIWTB Facebook page. There’s a mix of fiction and non-fiction, new and not-as-new, and even some YA and poetry thrown in. Wherever I’ve read the book that was recommended, I’ve linked to my review too.
Enjoy, and happy summer reading!
Fiction
All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Big Little Lies and The Hypnotist’s Love Story, Liane Moriarty (see my reviews of other Moriarty books What Alice Forgot and The Husband’s Secret)
The Circle, Dave Eggars
Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
A God In Ruins, Kate Atkinson
Elena Ferrante’s Naples series, starting with My Brilliant Friend
The Sound Of Glass, Karen White
The House of Hawthorne, Erika Robuck
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Collected Stories, Breece D’J Pancake
The Sunlit Night, Rebecca Dinerstein
Movie Star By Lizzie Pepper, Hilary Liftin (on sale 7/21)
Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
The Storied Life Of A.J. Fikry, Gabrielle Zevin
Some Luck and Early Warning, Jane Smiley (reviewed here and here)
The Girl On The Train, Paula Hawkins (reviewed here)
The Children Act, Ian McEwan (reviewed here)
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
The Narrow Road To The Deep North, Richard Flanagan
The Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel (reviewed here)
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Redeployment, Phil Klay (reviewed here)
Fourth Of July Creek, Smith Henderson
Beach Town, Mary Kay Andrews
Summer Secrets, Jane Green
The Daddy Diaries, Joshua Braff
The Cake Therapist, Judith Fertig
Girl Of My Dreams, Peter Davis
The Secret Of Magic, Deborah Johnson
A Court Of Thorns And Roses, Sarah Maas
Star Craving Mad, Elise Miller (out 8/4)
Nonfiction
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania, Erik Larson
The Skies Belong To Us: Love And Terror In The Golden Age Of Hijacking, Brendan Koerner
All The Truth Is Out, Matt Bai
The Real Thing: Lessons On Love And Life From A Wedding Reporter’s Notebook, Ellen McCarthy
Paper Love: Searching For The Girl My Grandfather Left Behind: Sarah Wildman – non-fiction
An Invisible Thread: The True Story Of An 11-Year-Old Panhandler, A Busy Sales Executive, And An Unlikely Meeting with Destiny, Laura Schroff
The Wright Brothers, David McCullough
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo (reviewed here)
Devil In The Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys, And The Dawn Of A New America, Gilbert King
Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, Peter Hessler
The Three-Day Promise, Donald Chung
Young Adult
The Stellow Project – Shari Becker
One Thing Stolen, Beth Kephart
Poetry
The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, Jeannine Hall Gailey
Ohio Violence, Alison Stine
Banned For Life, Arlene Ang
Vessel, Parneshia Jones
Classics
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
The Age Of Innocence, Edith Wharton