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⛱️ Summer Reads 2025 🍧
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items A quick roundup of some of the books 📚 that made the top Best Summer Reads lists 📋 as I get my personal TBR pile together for the last weeks of the season!!
From Service95's June Reads this thriller is set in NYC where a translator working with a trauma therapist makes a series of decisions that put her marriage, career and eventually life in danger
Misinterpretation | Ledia Xhoga
Another Service95 reccommendation - Elena Fischer's debut novel translated from the original German about a coming of age Summer for a teen to runs off to find the father she's never met.
Paradise Garden | Elena Fischer
🍧🍧 A read that is pure Summer vibes and has a J-Pop twist - Kakigori Summer follows three sisters – Rei, Kiki and Ai – who couldn’t be more different. When J-pop star Ai is papped kissing an older married man – the head of her record label – the th...
Kakigori Summer: A Novel | Emily Itami
If you're looking for short stories this collection is on several lists - “Forget cursed internet memes – this is cursed storytelling at its finest. Bora Chung’s genre-defying short story collection provides a wild trip through the twisted corners of...
Cursed Bunny | Bora Chung
All Fours isn’t a traditional road trip story, but it definitely takes you on a wild ride 🚗, - A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneous...
All Fours: A Novel | Miranda July
If your looking for a read on the steamier side ☕ - Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer. Shane Hall is a reclusive, award-winning novelist. When the two meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of other literati. What no one kno...
Seven Days in June | Tia Williams
Wedding season is here, and this book is the perfect on theme read. When Phoebe Stone arrives at the Cornwall Inn, she’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest who isn’t here for...
The Wedding People | Alison Espach
If you’re tackling a solo trip ✈️🧳 this year, this book might be the one. When Katy’s mom dies, she is left reeling, and she is faced with embarking on their planned mother-daughter trip to Positano alone. But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi...
One Italian Summer | Rebecca Serle
Happy Place will make you want to hug all your friends tighter, so it’s a great read when you’re already on a girl’s trip ✈️💅🏼🍹.
Harriet and Wyn broke up five months ago and still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. But the cottage is for...
Harriet and Wyn broke up five months ago and still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. But the cottage is for...
Happy Place | Emily Henry
If you’re looking for a read with a 🪷White Lotus-esque 🪷 vibe, this book is a must-read.
After he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances, Ro Krishna decides it’s time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite. The colorful cast of ch...
After he is dramatically forced to leave a high-profile job under mysterious circumstances, Ro Krishna decides it’s time to check in for some much-needed R&R at Samsara, a world-class spa for the global cosmopolitan elite. The colorful cast of ch...
Death in the Air | Ram Murali
There’s nothing like reading about someone else’s family drama to make you feel better about your own if you're on a family vacation 🧳 .
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return t...
The three Blue sisters are exceptional—and exceptionally different. They also had a fourth sister, Nicky, whose unexpected death left the family reeling. A year later, as they each navigate grief, addiction, and ambition, they find they must return t...
Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors
If you’re looking for a start to finish thriller hard pair this read with a backpacking 🎒🥾 trip themed read is the one.
Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. But as they stride farther from ...
Burned-out by both her marriage and work, Liz is desperate for an escape. So, when she plans a vacation with her three best friends, she persuades them to spend four nights camping in the stunning mountains of Norway. But as they stride farther from ...
The Hike | Lucy Clarke
🌶️🚨🌶️ Spicy Read 🌶️🚨🌶️ : In this reverse harem tale, Braxton Fawn, self-proclaimed “luckiest girl alive,” becomes the lead guitarist in a hot new band full of hot young guys.
When bandmates Houston, Loren, and Jericho let her know they’ve been watching her and liking what they see (professionally and in, ahem, other ways), the musicians take their rock star lives to the next level, whether in their van or even in the wood...
When bandmates Houston, Loren, and Jericho let her know they’ve been watching her and liking what they see (professionally and in, ahem, other ways), the musicians take their rock star lives to the next level, whether in their van or even in the wood...
Lilac | B.B. Reid
🌶️🚨🌶️ Spicy Read 🌶️🚨🌶️ : When Tyler Bell breaks his vow of celibacy—on the altar of his own church—he embarks on a very, very spicy journey.
There’s just something about Poppy Danforth that makes him want to break all the rules, no matter the cost. Even just 100 pages in, you’re sure to be satisfied with the spicy scenes Sierra Simone has blessed us with. While the book does have a plot, ...
There’s just something about Poppy Danforth that makes him want to break all the rules, no matter the cost. Even just 100 pages in, you’re sure to be satisfied with the spicy scenes Sierra Simone has blessed us with. While the book does have a plot, ...
Priest | Sierra Simone
🌶️🚨🌶️ Spicy Read 🌶️🚨🌶️ : Despite being named World’s Hottest Billionaire, all Ford Grant cares about is escaping the press and opening a recording studio in small town Rose Hill.
He spends his days balancing business with parenting and trying desperately to keep his hands off his best friend’s sister, Rosie Belmont. But when Rosie begs for a job, Ford can’t help but hire her. He shouldn’t cross this line, but he can’t resist ...
He spends his days balancing business with parenting and trying desperately to keep his hands off his best friend’s sister, Rosie Belmont. But when Rosie begs for a job, Ford can’t help but hire her. He shouldn’t cross this line, but he can’t resist ...
Wild Love | Elsie Silver
🌶️🚨🌶️ Spicy Read 🌶️🚨🌶️ : The first book in the Salacious Players’ Club series, Praise, is not for the faint of heart. Charlie Underwood is a notorious good girl, broken down by her neglectful ex.
When Charlie stumbles into a job at the Salacious Players’ Club, she is entranced by the club’s owner, Emerson Grant. Emerson knows what he wants, and he isn’t afraid to ask for it… But when he realizes that Charlie is his son’s ex-girlfriend, he off...
When Charlie stumbles into a job at the Salacious Players’ Club, she is entranced by the club’s owner, Emerson Grant. Emerson knows what he wants, and he isn’t afraid to ask for it… But when he realizes that Charlie is his son’s ex-girlfriend, he off...
Praise | Sara Cate
🌶️🚨🌶️ Spicy Read 🌶️🚨🌶️ : What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas… Sometimes, it follows you right back home. Kennedy is the athletic trainer for the Windy City Warriors, desperate to land her dream job with a new team next year.
But a Las Vegas run-in with the team’s shortstop, Isaiah, threatens it all when she wakes up with a fuzzy memory and a ring on her left hand. Thanks to Isaiah’s scheme to save her job, they must pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not...
But a Las Vegas run-in with the team’s shortstop, Isaiah, threatens it all when she wakes up with a fuzzy memory and a ring on her left hand. Thanks to Isaiah’s scheme to save her job, they must pretend the whole thing was a planned elopement and not...
Play Along | Liz Tomforde
Murder mystery meets small-town secrets with that emotional Wally Lamb depth—and it’s an Oprah’s Book Club summer pick. Set in 1950s Minnesota, this one’s full of quiet drama, buried pain, and just the right amount of mess. Perfect if you're craving ...
The River Is Waiting | Wally Lamb
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid 🚀💙 Set in 1980s NASA with a space shuttle crisis unfolding in real time, this one’s full of tension, emotion, and that classic TJR character drama. If you’re in your BookTok era and want something that feels big bu...
Atmosphere | Taylor Jenkins Reid
I’ll Follow You by Charlene Wang 🚗✨ Two best friends stuck in a dead-end town, a viral alter ego, and everything spiraling from there. It’s emotional, a little messy, and super bingeable. A Summer pick from Mindy Kaling’s book club, and perfect if y...
I'll Follow You | Charlene Wang