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Hot Girl Summer Reading List
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items Books to have by your side whether your roadtripping, camping, hanging by the beach, laying out by the pool, or going on epic vacations. These are the books that are the perfect summer companion.
Frances is a coolheaded and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-kn...
Conversations with Friends a book by Sally Rooney
Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she ente...
Down the Drain a book by Julia Fox
A collection of nine short stories, "Black Swans" spans the 1960s to the 1990s, offering a retrospective look at Babitz's experiences and the cultural shifts she witnessed. The stories cover a range of themes, from love and loss to the changing socia...
Black Swans: Stories a book by Eve Babitz and Stephanie Danler
In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles' 1960s Catholic ...
Chelsea Girls a book by Eileen Myles
"There is a girl, and her name is Sam." So begins Allegra Goodman's moving and wise new novel. Sam is seven years old and living in Beverly, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn't around much. Her mother struggles to make ends meet, an...
Sam a book by Allegra Goodman
From Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an "intoxicating" (Entertainment Weekly), "fearless" (Los Angeles Times), and "explosive" (People) novel about "what happens when women are pushed b...
Animal a book by Lisa Taddeo
Incredibly funny, a little odd, and very erotic story about food, sex, and God. It's a tender telling of our human appetities for food, sexual desire, and longing.
Milk Fed a book by Melissa Broder
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut--a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it ...
Brutes a book by Dizz Tate
It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsom...
Sunburn a book by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties--successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating hi...
Intermezzo a book by Sally Rooney
Having recently moved both herself and her formidable perfume bottle collection into a tiny bungalow in Los Angeles, mid-list author Astrid Dahl finds herself back in the Zoom writer's group she cofounded, Sapphic Scribes, after an incident that leav...
Perfume and Pain a book by Anna Dorn
In "Naked," David Sedaris's message--alternately rendered in "Fakespeare, " Italian, Spanish, and pidgin Greek--is the same: pay attention to me.
Naked a book by David Sedaris
This novel tells the story of two women, Sophie and Lou, as they navigate their lives in Los Angeles. It delves into themes of friendship, identity, and the pursuit of happiness amidst the city's eclectic and often superficial culture.
L.A. Woman a book by Eve Babitz
A semi-autobiographical novel, this book follows the life of a young woman named Jacaranda who navigates the bohemian and artistic circles of Los Angeles and New York. The story explores themes of self-discovery, ambition, and the pursuit of pleasure...
Sex and Rage a book by Eve Babitz
A collection of nine short stories, "Black Swans" spans the 1960s to the 1990s, offering a retrospective look at Babitz's experiences and the cultural shifts she witnessed. The stories cover a range of themes, from love and loss to the changing socia...
Black Swans: Stories a book by Eve Babitz and Stephanie Danler