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books to read if your favorite Taylor Swift song is August
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items here's the list of my book recommendations if your favorite Taylor Swift song is August. Enjoy!! and please do tell me which one is your favorite <3
Every summer, Lucy returns to Prince Edward Island for salty air, golden sunsets, and long walks with her best friend, Bridget. But there’s one complication: Bridget’s younger brother, Felix. Years ago, Lucy and Felix shared an electrifying night the...
This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
Malibu, August 1983. The Riva siblings are the dazzling heart of Malibu’s golden coast: Nina, the reluctant supermodel; Jay, the championship surfer; Hud, the loyal photographer with a secret; and Kit, the youngest with dreams she hasn’t yet voiced. ...
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
For nearly three decades, Mallory and Jake have lived a secret life. Every Labor Day weekend, they escape their real worlds to meet on Nantucket, rekindling a love affair that began long ago. Both are married, both have families, both know the rules:...
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
Harriet and Wyn were once the couple everyone adored — inseparable, effortless, meant-to-be. But six months ago, they quietly broke up. The only problem? They haven’t told their closest friends.
Now, their annual trip to the beloved Maine cottage is...
Happy Place by Emily Henry
When twelve-year-old Vix Leonard meets the magnetic and unpredictable Caitlin Somers, her world cracks wide open. Summers on Martha’s Vineyard with Caitlin’s wealthy, eccentric family introduce Vix to a life of freedom, intensity, and the thrill of b...
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
For eighteen summers, Violet Mitchell and Will Seaberg’s lives were intertwined at a beach house in Ogunquit, Maine. What began as childhood friendship grew into something deeper — until one life-altering summer tore them, and their families, apart.
...
The Infinity Between Us by N.S Perkins
Every summer, the Sinclair family retreats to their private island — a world of privilege, beauty, and carefully constructed perfection. At the heart of it all is Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her cousins, known as the Liars. Together, they are insepa...
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
On the sun-drenched Italian Riviera in the mid-1980s, seventeen-year-old Elio spends his summer at his family’s villa, where life moves slowly between books, music, and golden afternoons. When Oliver — a confident, magnetic postdoctoral scholar — arr...
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
For six golden summers, Persephone Fraser and Sam Florek were inseparable — sharing lazy days by the lake, nights at his family’s restaurant, and a friendship that slowly blossomed into something deeper. But one mistake shattered it all, sending Perc...
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Frances is a 21-year-old student navigating love, art, and identity alongside her outspoken best friend (and former lover) Bobbi. When the pair meet glamorous writer Melissa and her handsome husband Nick, their lives intertwine in ways neither expect...
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer just trying to keep it together. Shane Hall is a reclusive, award-winning novelist with a complicated past. When the two meet at a New York literary event, the world sees fireworks — but nei...
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
Marianne is brilliant, aloof, and misunderstood. Connell is popular, well-liked, but quietly burdened by class and circumstance. From their school days in small-town Ireland to their university years in Dublin, the two weave in and out of each other’...
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Fifteen years ago, Matt and Grace were inseparable during their NYU days — a love story built on music, photography, late nights in Washington Square Park, and the kind of intimacy that defines who you become. But after graduation, life pulled them i...
Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino
Macy Sorensen has built a safe, structured life — a promising career as a pediatrics resident, an engagement to a dependable man, and carefully walled-off emotions. But everything shifts when she unexpectedly runs into Elliot Petropoulos — her first ...
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
On July 15th, 1988, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. The very next day, they must part ways — but the connection between them lingers.
What follows is a sweeping story told through snapshots of ...
One Day by David Nicholls
Six years ago, Liv and Finn shared one unforgettable summer on the Cornish coast. Their love was fierce but marked by tragedy, leaving them tied together by a bittersweet promise: every year, if both are single, they’ll find each other again.
But th...
Seven Summers by Paige Toon
Baltimore, 1970s. Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane is shy, bookish, and perfectly content with church choir, tidy family dinners, and Broadway showtunes. So when she lands a summer nanny job for a doctor’s daughter, her mother praises it as respectable wo...
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Clementine West has always had a plan: work hard, stay busy, never take risks. After the worst day of her life, it’s the only way she knows to keep her heart safe. But her carefully ordered world shatters the day she finds a stranger in her kitchen—a...
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Meredith Fox hasn’t been the same since losing her sister, Claire, eighteen months ago. But this summer, during her family’s annual trip to Martha’s Vineyard, she’s determined to step back into the world. With a big family wedding ahead and the belov...
The Summer of Broken Rules by K. L. Walther
January Andrews writes happily-ever-afters for a living, but after a personal heartbreak, she’s not so sure they exist anymore. Gus Everett pens dark, brooding literary fiction, convinced love is just an illusion. Both are stuck with writer’s block, ...
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Alice’s grandmother always said good things happen at the lake—and for Alice, that’s always been true. It’s where she snapped the photo that launched her career. But when Nan has a fall, Alice trades her fast-paced life for Barry’s Bay, leaving behin...
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
In the 1970s, Daisy Jones & The Six were the band that defined a generation. Their songs blared from every stereo, they sold out arenas across America, and their chemistry—both on stage and off—was undeniable. But on July 12, 1979, they walked aw...
Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
1950s Brighton. Marion is captivated the moment she meets Tom, the charming young policeman who teaches her to swim beneath the pier. She’s certain her love will be enough for them both.
But when Tom meets Patrick, a museum curator who introduces hi...
My Policeman by Bethan Roberts
If he had been with me, everything would have been different.
Autumn and Finn grew up side by side, their lives intertwined by years of shared memories. But somewhere along the way, they drifted apart. Now, Autumn has her boyfriend Jamie and a tight...
If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin
Greece, in the age of heroes.
Patroclus, a quiet and exiled prince, finds himself at the court of King Peleus—and in the shadow of Peleus’s golden son, Achilles. Beautiful, swift, and seemingly destined for greatness, Achilles is everything Patroclu...
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
“I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls—the night that will lead me to the most terrible morning of my life.”
Set in 1950s Paris, Giovanni’s Room follows David, an American expatriate torn between the life he...
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, Caryl Phillips
When Noelle Shepard loses her beloved grandmother, she stumbles upon decades-old letters and photographs revealing a forbidden romance from Gram’s past. Determined to uncover the truth, she shares her discovery in a viral TikTok—and soon connects wit...
You, With a View by Jessica Joyce
Addie thought she had her summer all figured out: a scenic road trip with her sister to a friend’s wedding in rural Scotland, complete with snacks, playlists, and zero drama. That is, until her ex-boyfriend Dylan crashes—literally—back into her life....
The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary
Daphne thought she had her happily-ever-after all mapped out with Peter—until he left her for his childhood best friend, Petra. Suddenly homeless and heartbroken, Daphne finds herself moving in with the least likely roommate: Miles, Petra’s equally d...
Funny Story by Emily Henry
Rosie and Will should never have fit together—she’s thoughtful and cautious, he’s reckless and magnetic. But from their teenage years, through whispered late-night phone calls and stolen moments, they become inseparable.
Then tragedy tears them apar...
Talking at Night by Claire Daverley
When Cleo, a young British painter in New York, impulsively marries Frank, a charismatic ad executive twenty years her senior, it feels like a solution. For Cleo: a green card, stability, and a chance to create. For Frank: beauty, art, and maybe a re...
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Six summers ago, Liv and Finn shared one unforgettable night that ended in tragedy. Though Finn’s band takes him to LA and Liv stays in Cornwall, they make a pact: every summer, if they’re both single, they’ll find their way back to each other.
But ...
Seven Summers by Paige Toon