10 Summer Reads
Happy June 1st! I bet you also feel like the past 6 months have flown by in just a blink of an eye. I seriously can't believe we are halfway through the year and I'm sitting here discussing my summer reading plans. But I do have some ambitious plans for this summer. I'm keeping an optimistic outlook and I hope I can accomplish it all.
One of my goals this summer is to squeeze in a few more hours of reading. Between trips to the pool and the beach, I'm counting on it. So I put together my top 10 books to read {or finish reading} this summer.
Happy summer season!
Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler
A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, seductive world of a famous New York City restaurant.
Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
Two decades fly by in this breezy story of four friends who go very separate ways when they graduate from college. After a decade of coping with toxic men and more, they slowly circle back to one another. Debut novelist Adams movingly depicts the tough steps we take into adulthood.
Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
Best friends since their NYC private school days, Sarah and Lauren are now adults trying to figure out how to maintain their relationship when each is judging the others' choices, from work to marriage. Imagine the characters on Gossip Girl being brought way back down to Earth.
First Comes Love by Emily Giffin
Something Borrowed author Emily Giffin has been entertaining the masses with her breezy, touching books since 2004. Her latest novel shares the story of two sisters separated by tragedy and their road back to each other.
The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close
New York City magazine writer Beth moves to Washington, D.C., to support her husband's political ambitions, but hates it. Intrigue builds as they get to know a more politically successful couple — with disastrous results. All are among "the hopefuls" who flocked optimistically to the capital in 2008, only to find their hope looking more like naiveté.
After You by Jojo Moyes
The sequel to Me Before You. For Louisa Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. A novel that will make you laugh, cry, and rejoice at being back in the world she creates. Here she does what few novelists can do -- revisits beloved characters and takes them to places neither they nor we ever expected.
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
A bunch of college friends (and ex-bandmates) maintain their relationship into middle age...until their own kids start sleeping with each other. Emma Straub, who released the summer hit The Vacationers in 2014, delights in this multi-generational tale.
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy
Meet Lily Wilder: New Yorker, lawyer extraordinaire, fond of a good drink {or five}, and totally incapable of being faithful to one man. Her fiancé, Will, is a brilliant, handsome archeologist. Lily likes Will, but does she love him? Will loves Lily, but does he know her? As the wedding approaches, Lily's nights -- and mornings, and afternoons -- of booze, laughter, and questionable decisions become a growing reminder that the happiest day of her life might turn out to be her worst mistake yet. Unapologetically sexy and funny, this joyous debut introduces a self-assured protagonist you won't soon forget.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
The Assistants by Camille Perri
A hilarious ode to every underpaid, overqualified thirty-something stuck in a starter job. Tina is the broke assistant to a billionaire CEO. When an innocent mistake drops a chunk of corporate cash into her personal account, she morphs into a Robin Hood for her fellow flunkies. Sharp and funny.
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