What were your top summer reads?
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Anonymous
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Mine were The Five Star Weekend, Carrie Soto is Back, and Fourth Wing.
Seeing it written out, I guess I’m pretty basic but I don’t care haha. I really liked those 3 and I guess I like basic for light summer fun 
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Anonymous
| Not new but I read Catch and Kill for the first time and it was outstanding. |
Anonymous
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Really enjoyed Lessons in Chemistry
Then listened to the interview of the author to find out it is her first book and it is already being made into a show on Apple TV. Talk about instant success. |
Anonymous
| I loved Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. |
Anonymous
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The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Adventures of Amina al-Surafi by Shannon Chakraborty Little Thieves by Margaret Owen Painted Devils by Margaret Owen The Magician's Daughter by HG Parry One Dark Window by Rachel Willig Fourth Wing was crap writing and predictable, but for some reason the characters stayed with me and I do want to see what happens in the next book. |
Anonymous
| I resisted for as long as I could, but I devoured 28 Summers, its sequel (The Sixth Wedding?), Five Star Weekend, and the Paradise Trilogy. Summer of Elin! |
Anonymous
| Wonder drug by Jennifer Vanderbees. It’s about how thalidomide got into the market in various countries and how policy makers worked to stop it from being approved in the US. Great read!! |
Anonymous
I read 28 summers a few years ago. I liked it. I didn't realize there was a sequel, so I will check that out. |
Anonymous
I am a huge Hilderbrand fan, and I really loved Five Star Weekend (though I didn’t care for 28 Summers). If you’re a new fan, I highly recommend Love Season - I think it’s her best! |
Anonymous
This book was so annoying. I read it for a book club. I felt like they could have made the main character normal, but she was instead rude, unwavering, pompous, and I thought she was autistic, but the author didn't go there. I was waiting for the moment it gets better and I forced myself to read to the end. Such a disappointment. And I'm a scientist and really wanted to like this one. Such a waste of my time. |
Anonymous
I came on to say this! I haven’t enjoyed a book this much in awhile. |
Anonymous
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Demon Copperhead by a mile
Also read & enjoyed: Hello Beautiful Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman The Marriage Portrait The Villa by Rachel Hawkins |
Anonymous
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Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid (my first time reading her books - fun summer reads)
Know My Name by Chanel Miller (rape victim's account - must read) Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (reread) The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donaghue (set in a maternity ward during the 1918 flu epidemic) Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (her newest - I loved it - set on a northern Michigan cherry farm during the covid pandemic lockdown) Drive Your Plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczak (nobel-prize winner, odd but engaging mystery of who is killing people in a small Polish village - is it the Animals??) Midnight News by Jo Baker (her newest - WWI during the Blitz, the narrator is wrapped up in a mystery of her friends dying - is she losing her mind or is there a conspiracy lurking?) Homestead by Melinda Moustakis (first novel set in 1950s Alaska about creating a marriage between virtual strangers with the backdrop of Alaska becoming a state) |
Anonymous
| Little Monsters, Hello Beautiful, Tom Lake, You Can't Stay Here Forever, The Lost Wife, The Garnett Girls, The Road to Dalton |
Anonymous
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I really loved yellowface. It took me a while but i'm so glad i stayed with it b/c the way the author brings it around is brilliant.
also, laying on the beach reading helps a lot. |