Your summer reading list

Dive into summer with these 12 great reads


Words by Bloomsbury | Jul 11 2023

Whether you're reading by the pool or staying out of the sun, these books will help you have a summer (read) to remember!

1. Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

A dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.

2. Women We Buried, Women We Burned

A riveting memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness sure to captivate readers who loved Tara Westover's Educated and Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle.

3. A Court of Thorns and Roses

The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from Sarah J. Maas.

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4. Glassworks

A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.

5. Nothing Special

From the author Sally Rooney called “bold, irreverent, and agonizingly funny,” a wildly original coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl working at Andy Warhol’s Factory in 1960s New York.

7. House of Earth and Blood

Sarah J. Maas's bestselling Crescent City series begins with House of Earth and Blood, which follows the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance.

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8. The Humble Lover

From National Book Award honored–author Edmund White, a wildly hilarious and irreverent novel about a rich older man who falls in love with a young ballerino.

9. I Feel Love

The unlikely story of how the psychedelic drug MDMA emerged from the shadows to the forefront of a medical revolution—and the potential it may hold to help us thrive.

10. Throne of Glass

Lethal. Loyal. Legendary. Enter the world of Throne of Glass with the first book in the #1 bestselling series by Sarah J. Maas.

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11. History's Angel

The story of a middle-aged man in contemporary India discovering that neither his life nor his country are as stable as he thought.

12. Anansi's Gold

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century’s longest-running and most spectacular frauds.

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