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Summer Reading List: Booktok & Beyond
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items These are books I've read and loved or have come highly recommended to me! I want more hours in the day to finish all the books on my shelf. Don't you?
A time-travleing adventure through the lens of a coming of age written by a highly acclaimed Japanese writer.
The Tatami Galaxy (Nomad Edition) Collectible
I love this book. It checks all the boxes for me. Philosophy. Sci-Fi. Horror. It's fun to imagine yourself in an insane scenario like this one and ask yourself… What would I do, feel, think?
A Short Stay in Hell
This is one is not just for the kids. Touching poems set to gorgeous scenes. This makes a great coffee table book for when you just need a moment of zen.
The Illustrated Robert Frost: 25 Essential Poems
I love perspectives from people who are so entirely different than me. While spending half a century in India, Bhutan, and Nepal, Ricard visited Tibet more than twenty times and spent years publishing rare Tibetan texts.
Notebooks of a Wandering Monk
This book has been on my list for a few years now. Honestly, I think I keep putting it off because… I know it's gonna be amazing and I want to make the proper space to cherish it for the first time. Does that make me weird? Prob.
The Overstory: A Novel
A little grisly but so fascinating. If you've ever watched NCIS and wondered what actually goes into solving a crime… read this! Sue Black's base of knowledge is astounding.
All That Remains: Forensic Scientist on Death & Crime
The most beautiful, interconnected book of our time. Read it with a smile across your face and wonder in your heart.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom & Science
I mean… of course Piranesi is on here. It's all I've heard about from my Book-Tok friends. I cannot wait to read it and see if it lives up to the hype!
Piranesi
I just read a short story by Madeline Miller called Galatea. After that I added her other two most popular books to my cart. It seems she likes to retell ancient stories… which is great for me because I generally find the originals boring and her wor...
CIRCE
A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad.
The Song of Achilles: A Novel
A coming of age set in 1950's Tehran before political turmoil disrupts the lives of two young girls. Watch out for a twist at the end!
The Lion Women of Tehran
A cult-classic horror that could be called the original “backrooms” of sorts.
House of Leaves
THE book of the summer. An influencer has to practice what she preaches. Will she survive?
Yesteryear
This book also has a bit of a cult following. The writing is so unique and I can almost guarantee you've never read a story quite like this.
I Who Have Never Known Men
Sliding one cookbook in here because it's gorgeous, insightful, and full of delicious recipes! Sorry not sorry.
Tiffin: 500 Authentic Indian Recipes
Zoe Thorogood, writer and artist, records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how.
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Again, I love this book because it gives me a perspective on something that I couldn't otherwise understand: Surfing obsession.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Pulitzer)
The intersection of faith, love, and identity in this book is so, so good. The way she writes India is intimate and engulfing.
Honor
A sci-fi that feels timely and actually very funny. Currently half way through The Hike by Magary and really enjoying it.
Point B (a teleportation love story)
Why do we do what we do? A question that has plagued my entire life. This book tries to answer just that… and does a damn good job.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best
Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim.
The Elements: A Novel
One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
There was a stretch of time in America, during the 1970s, when bombings by domestic underground groups were a daily occurrence. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthro...
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground
Safe but under the constant observation by our robot overlords. Things are good, right?
The Wrong Unit: A Novel
After a devastating global pandemic, Irina Karrigan is left to raise her son in a hollowed-out world. Determined to build a better life, she embarks on a perilous 400-mile journey to Ferndale, California, guided by a flyer promising a new start.
The Town at the End of the World: Founding
The Martian Chronicles is a must-read for any fan of science fiction and a haunting prophesy of humanity’s destiny to bring our old dreams and follies along with us wherever we may venture forth.
The Martian Chronicles
A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each.
All the Colors of the Dark
When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.
The God of the Woods: A Novel
Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas—and progress itself.
The Molecule of More: How Dopamine Drives Life
In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history.
The Lost City of Z: Deadly Obsession
A hefty book of stickers for crafting, collaging, etc.
John Derian Sticker Book