This summer, put down your textbooks, and immediately pick up another book for leisure. Here’s our compiled list of summer reading recommendations, straight from the Editorial Board!
- Mystery
- “One of Us is Lying” by Karen M. McManus
- “The Reappearance of Rachel Price” by Holly Jackson
- “Ace of Spades” by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
- Romance
- “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry
- “D’Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding” by Chencia C. Higgins
- “Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me” by Mariko Tamaki, Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (graphic novel)
- Fantasy
- “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig
- “Masters of Death” by Olivie Blake
- “The Full Moon Coffee Shop” by Mai Mochizuki
- Science Fiction
- “The Martian” by Andy Weir
- “This Is How You Lose the Time War” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- “On a Sunbeam” by Tillie Walden
- Contemporary Fiction
- “Just Between Us” by Adeline Kon (graphic novel)
- “Eleanor Oliphant is Perfectly Fine” by Gail Honeyman
- “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas
- Literary Fiction
- “Is This a Cry for Help?” by Emily Austin
- “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng
- “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
- Historical Fiction
- “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini
- “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinberg
- “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
- Memoir
- “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” by Lori Gottlieb
- “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner
- “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi (graphic novel)