Summer reading still has a special sort of feeling. Summer reading promises discovery, adventure, and pleasure—though whether it actually delivers all of that depends on what you choose (and how much time by the pool you have). In case you need a little help curating your stack, here are a few of the novels you should read this summer :
1.Again, Rachel- Marian Keyes
Rachel Walsh is a survivor: she survived rehab and the loss of her greatest love.
These days everything in her life is good - good job, good dog, very good boyfriend. Then Luke - her ex of six years - shows up.
Suddenly she's fragile and falling.
They ended badly and neither can speak of the secret hurt which drove them apart.
2. If I Tell - Gill Perdue
A girl covered in blood. Her missing stepfather. Two detectives racing against time.
Laura is her team's top interviewer, an expert at finding the 'in' with victims that helps crack the case.
Niamh is her straight-talking partner who is noticing cracks in her mentor's careful facade.
Jenny is the 14-year-old assault victim found bloody and confused on a suburban street. They need answers, and fast. But Jenny seems terrified to tell them the truth.
And as the pair try to reach her, Laura begins to lose herself in memories of her own shattering trauma, leading to a mistake that could have fatal consequences . . .
Always Only You is an opposites-attract, forbidden love sports romance about a nerdy, late-blooming hockey star, and his tough cookie coworker who keeps both her soft side and her autism diagnosis to herself. Complete with a meddling secretary, tantric yoga torture, and a scorching slow burn, this standalone is the second in a series of novels about a Swedish-American family of five brothers, two sisters, and their wild adventures as they each find happily ever after.
4. The Good Left Undone - Adriana Trigiani
The Good Left Undone is a beautifully rendered love letter to several generations of Italian women as they navigate war, tragedy, love, and missed opportunities through interwoven stories that lay bare the soul of a single working-class family.
5. Just Got Real- Jane Fallon
When happily divorced Joni finds Ant via a dating app, neither is entirely honest about who they are.
But when they meet in real life, they fall for each other. Soon they are a happy, steady item. Until Joni discovers Ant is still on the app, still dating other women . . .
Having secret rivals devastates Joni. So she decides to take revenge. But not on them.
6- Black Cake – Charmaine Wilkerson
Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. When her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral, they discover a puzzling inheritance. First, a voice recording in which everything they ever knew about their family is upended. Their mother tells a tumultuous story about a headstrong young woman who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. Second, a traditional Caribbean black cake made from a longstanding family recipe, that Eleanor hopes will heal the wounds of the past. Can Byron and Benny fulfil their mother's final request, to share the black cake at the right time? Or will Eleanor's revelations leave them feeling more lost than ever?
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, the rock ’n’ roll is what she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
8. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
Uneducated and unskilled Harry Morgan, who does not think of any business other than supporting the poor and his family, somehow gets involved in illegal business while trying to hold on to life and somehow earn money and is eventually shot to death.
9. Exes and O's - Amy Lea
Boston firefighter Trevor Metcalfe will be the first to rush into a burning building but the last to rush into a relationship. Love just isn't his thing. When his new roommate Tara enlists him to help her reconnect with her exes, he reluctantly agrees. But Tara's journey is leading him to discover his own new chapter.
10. With a Mind to Kill-Anthony Horowitz
One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder – James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former SMERSH agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion’s den – but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?
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