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Summer Reading Recommendations from Favorite Authors
Authors tend to be very well-read people. To help you find some excellent summer reads, we rounded up authors from across the reading spectrum to answer a simple question: Which three books would you recommend to your readers this summer?
Below you'll find some great picks from beloved authors. Be sure to add your favorites to your Want to Read shelf ahead of your next summer getaway or staycation!
Want to dig into a genre? You can also check out recommendations from top sci-fi & fantasy, mystery & thriller, young adult, and romance authors.
Below you'll find some great picks from beloved authors. Be sure to add your favorites to your Want to Read shelf ahead of your next summer getaway or staycation!
Want to dig into a genre? You can also check out recommendations from top sci-fi & fantasy, mystery & thriller, young adult, and romance authors.
Saunders was known for his short stories, including Tenth of December, when he published his first novel in 2017, Lincoln in the Bardo. The novel went on to win the Man Booker Prize and receive a 2017 Goodreads Choice Award nomination for historical fiction.
Here are his summer reading picks:
Here are his summer reading picks:
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Gay is the author of several books, both fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling Bad Feminist and Hunger. She also writes Marvel's World of Wakanda series and is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Hannah has written more than a dozen books, but it was her World War II novel The Nightingale that made her a household name. Her latest novel, The Great Alone, won the 2018 Goodreads Choice Award for historical fiction.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Kaur is the bestselling author of two collections of poetry. Her first book of poems, Milk and Honey, sold more than 2.5 million copies and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a year. Her followup collection, The Sun and Her Flowers, won the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for poetry.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Lee's bestselling Pachinko, a multigenerational tale of a Korean family, has become a book club favorite and earned a 2017 Goodreads Choice Award nomination for historical fiction.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. In 2011, she won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for A Visit from the Goon Squad. Her most recent novel, Manhattan Beach, is a New York Times bestseller.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Gilbert is best known for her wildly popular memoir Eat, Pray, Love. This June she returns to fiction with City of Girls, a sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Cullen received acclaim for Columbine, an investigation into the 1999 high school shooting; it won the 2009 Goodreads Choice Award for nonfiction. This year he published Parkland: Birth of a Movement.
Here are his summer reading picks:
Here are his summer reading picks:
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Jones' An American Marriage made it onto just about every "best of the year" list you can think of in 2018 and was recommended by the likes of Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Of course, it was also nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for fiction.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Bowen is the bestselling author of the Royal Spyness series and Molly Murphy mysteries. She's also known for her historical fiction novels, including her latest book, The Victory Garden.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Westover's 2018 memoir, Educated, was a blockbuster hit, with recommendations from Barack Obama and Bill Gates. It also won the 2018 Goodreads Choice Award for memoir.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Reid is the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Maybe in Another Life, among other books. Her latest novel, Daisy Jones & the Six, is a New York Times bestseller and was a recent pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Pink is the author of multiple nonfiction bestsellers, including Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us and A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, and his latest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.
Here are his summer reading picks:
Here are his summer reading picks:
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Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of five novels, including Prep and Eligible. Her first story collection, You Think It, I’ll Say It, was selected for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Norris is the author of Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen and a copy editor for The New Yorker. Her new book is Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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The food writer and former Gourmet magazine editor has written numerous food books, including Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table and Comfort Me with Apples.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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This thriller writer is best known for the beloved World War II novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky, which earned a 2017 Goodreads Choice Award nomination in historical fiction.
Here are his summer reading picks:
Here are his summer reading picks:
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Andrews is the New York Times–bestselling author of 24 novels, including Summer Rental and The Weekenders. Her latest novel is the vacation-ready Sunset Beach.
Here are her summer reading picks:
Here are her summer reading picks:
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Houston's latest book is the memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. She's also the author of two novels, an essay collection, and two short story collections, including Cowboys Are My Weakness.
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Here are her summer reading picks:
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Which author's suggestions are you adding to your Want to Read shelf? Let's talk books in the comments!
Check out the complete guide to Summer Reading, including:
Summer Reading from Mystery & Thriller Authors
Summer Reading from Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors
Summer Reading from YA Authors
Check out the complete guide to Summer Reading, including:
Summer Reading from Mystery & Thriller Authors
Summer Reading from Sci-Fi & Fantasy Authors
Summer Reading from YA Authors
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Happy that Kristin Hannah recommended News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Hopefully it will lead readers to take a look at a wonderful, wonderful book!
Lieselot wrote: "I know one that I'll def. be reading someday very soon, though it's one from an author that recommended these summer readings to us, lol, and not one from an actual recommendation (which also look ..."It is a fascinating book, with a point of view like none I have ever encountered before. Be patient... it has to grow on you, but it is well worth the effort.
I recently read Pachinko (4 stars) and Save me the Plums (5 stars). Both were wonderful. The Great Believers is one I am anxious to read.
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is my favorite of 2019 and I’ve read a lot.
Barbara wrote: "I read The Overstory by Richard Powers and it was my favorite book of 2018. A must read!"I am really looking forward to it!!!
I love these recommendations, thank you!! I have read some and have added many more to my TBR list. So many books, so little...you know.
Actually i really want to read these books but their language are english.I can read them,but its too hard to undrestand the meaning of them.Can u give me a suggesstion how can i read them,please?