Summer Reading Suggestions

Celebrity Book Club

  • Reese’s Book Club
  • Oprah’s Book Club
  • Jenna’s Book Club
  • The House of Eve by Johnson FICT          
  • Counterfeit by Chen FICT
  • Black Candle Women by Brown FICT
  • Hell of a Book by Mott FICT
  • Nightcrawling by Mottley FICT
  • Behold the Dreamers by Mbue FICT
  • Northern Spy by Berry FICT
  • The Turnout by Abbott FICT
  • Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid FIC
  • Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens FICT

Food Memoir

  • Save Me the Plums: My gourmet memoir
  • L’Appart by Lebovitz
  • Eat a Peach by David Change
  • From Scratch by Locke
  • Crying in H Mart by Zauner
  • Julie & Julia by Powell
  • Love, Loss and What we Ate by Lakshmi
  • An Onion in my Pocket by Madison
  • Taste by Stanley Tucci
  • Good Seeds by T.F. Pecore Wesco

Books set in a US State

  • A Book in Each State
  • Into the Wild by Krakauer (Alaska) 900s
  • Gone with the Wind by Mitchell (Georgia) FICT
  • The Unhoneymooners by Lauren (Hawaii) ROMANCE
  • Ordinary Grace by Kent (Minnesota) FICT
  • The Lake, the River & the Other Lake by Amick (Michigan) FICT
  • The Deer Camp by Kuipers (Michigan) BIO
  • Gilead by Robinson (Iowa) FICT
  • Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett(Louisiana)
  • This Tender Land by William Krueger Kent (Minnesota)
  • Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (Oklahoma)
  • Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Tennesse)

Books with a Beach Setting

  • The Beach Trap by Brady FICT
  • The Summer of Broken Rules by Walther YA
  • Malibu Rising by Reid FICT
  • Beach Read by Henry ROMANCE
  • Winter in Paradise by Hilderbrand FICT
  • The Means by Fusselman FICT
  • Good Girl Complex by Kennedy FICT
  •  Every Man a Hero by Ray Lambert NF
  • Last Resort by Sarah Stodola NF
  • Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers FICT

Vacation Destination

  • Burial Rites by Kent (Iceland) FICT
  • The Henna Artist by Joshi (India) FICT
  • Beautiful Ruins by Walter (Italy) FICT
  • Chocolat by Harris (France) FICT
  • The People We Meet on Vacation by Henry (Palm Springs) ROMANCE
  • Circe by Miller (Greece) FICT
  • The unsinkable Greta James by Smith (Alaskan Cruise) FICT
  • Something Wilder by Lauren (Utah)
  • Vacationland by Meg Mitchell Moore FIC (Maine)

Library/Bookstore setting

  • Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Sullivan FICT
  • The Midnight Library by Haig FICT
  • The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Davis FICT
  • The Library at the Edge of the World by Hayes-McCoy FICT 
  • The Personal Librarian by Terrell FICT
  • The little Paris Bookshop by George FICT
  • The Bookshop on the Corner by Colgan
  • The Sentence by Erdrich FICT
    Mr. Prenumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
  • Giver of Stars by Jodi Picoult FICT

Summer Setting

  • Summer on the Bluffs by Hostin FICT
  • The Summer Job by Dent FICT
  • Sumer Reading by McKinlay FICT
  • A Summer to Remember by Montgomery FICT
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty by Hahn YA
  • We Were Liars by Lockhart YA
  • One Italian Summer by Serle FICT
  • Last summer at the golden hotel
  • by Friedland FICT
  • Summer by Ali Smith FICT