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📚☀️🌺🌴Books That Feel Like Summer
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Sun-drenched love stories, second chances, childhood crushes, and just enough emotional damage to keep it interesting. These are the books you’ll want to read on a beach towel, on a balcony at golden hour, or under th...
First love. Beach house. Old feelings you thought you buried? Yep.
It’s cozy, romantic, and a little painful in that “what if we met again” kind of way. You’ll smell sunscreen and regret in the best possible combo.
Vibe: nostalgic, healing, soft
Same Time Next Summer by Annabel Monaghan
Childhood friends. A lake house. A secret that ruined everything.
It’s giving slow burn, regret, and second chances. If you loved The Summer I Turned Pretty, this is the older, sadder sister.
Vibe: tender, sad girl summer, full of “what could’ve been...
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Opposites attract. Best friends. Weird, hilarious, real.
Poppy and Alex have that chemistry. It’s funny, emotional, and just makes you want to pack a bag and run off with someone you shouldn’t love.
Vibe: witty, warm, emotionally layered
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
🌺✨an old time classic for me Teen summer chaos, love triangles, beach nostalgia.
It’s dramatic, sweet, and kind of iconic. You’ll be team Conrad or Jeremiah and never emotionally recover.
Vibe: dreamy, messy, super bingeable
The Complete Summer I Turned Pretty Trilogy
🏄♀️🌊🌺🌴Surf, siblings, secrets — and one party that changes everything.
Flashbacks, family trauma, and golden California vibes. You’ll want to live in the aesthetic (but not the drama).
Vibe: glowy, retro, emotional
Malibu Rising: A Read with Jenna Pick - Novel
First love. Second chances. Lots of tears.
If Same Time Next Summer broke your heart in a good way, this one will crush it and then kiss it better.
Love and Other Words: Lauren, Christina - Books
✨🌺Exes fake being together at their friend group’s summer getaway.
SO messy, so romantic, so aesthetically pleasing. Cottagecore + chaos = yes.
Happy Place: Henry, Emily
🌴🦜Enemies forced to go on a romantic vacation together. Hijinks ensue.
Fluffy, hilarious, and gives big beach movie energy.
The Unhoneymooners: Lauren, Christina
🌺🌴A summer wedding, a family tradition game, and a cute boy with secrets.
Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and light romance with depth
The Summer of Broken Rules: Beach Read
🌅A one-day connection, a promise to meet again, years later… they do.
Dreamy, Canadian lake vibes, with a bit more grown-up emotion.
Meet Me at the Lake: Fortune, Carley
What happens when your husband comes back… but you’ve moved on?
Less “beachy”, more “emotional wreck on vacation”, but stunning.
One True Loves: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid
📘📖Writers. Rivals. Romance. And actual writing at the beach.
Witty, smart, emotional, and honestly… hard to top.
Beach Read: Henry, Emily - Books
☀️🌊New hotel, rich guests, old secrets, and summer magic.
You’ll feel like you’re sipping iced coffee in a coastal town with drama.
The Hotel Nantucket: Hilderbrand, Elin
A sarcastic travel writer stumbles into murder. But make it cozy and funny.
Not romance-focused, but has summery ✨dark-academic-goes-on-holiday✨ energy.
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
Ex-lovers reconnect for one wild week full of past wounds and passion.
Sexy, deep, emotional — you’ll feel grown and seen and a lil broken.
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
A literary enemies-to-lovers set in a small summer town.
Snappy dialogue, emotional undercurrent, and two bookish weirdos falling hard.
🌴🌺Book Lovers: Henry, Emily