Soak Up the Sun

Enjoy the summer with this selection of sunny reads! ☀️🏖️

Updated April 29, 2026
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The Wildest Sun
Lemmie, Asha.
Paper Book
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father. When tragedy ...
Under the golden sun
Ashcroft, Jenny
Paper Book
'A deeply touching, delicious, slow burn of a love affair. A really excellent book and Jenny Ashcroft's best yet.' Dinah Jeffries 'The perfect way to lose myself, escaping from the every day to travel around the world.' Louise Douglas<...
Flavors of the sun : the Sahadi's guide to understanding, buying, and using Middle Eastern ingredients
Sahadi Whelan, Christine
Paper Book
Sumac. Urfa pepper. Halvah. Pomegranate molasses. Preserved lemons. The seasonings, staples, and spice blends used throughout the Middle East region have endless potential to transform food - once you know how to use them. In Flavors of the Sun, the people behind the iconic Brooklyn...
The sun walks down
McFarlane, Fiona 1978-
Paper Book
Fiona McFarlane's blazingly brilliant new novel, The Sun Walks Down, tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia. In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny...
Circling the sun : a novel
McLain, Paula.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS * "Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of The Paris Wife will be...
Up with the sun
Mallon, Thomas 1951-
Paper Book
A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * Through the curious life of Dick Kallman--a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim--the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are thrown into stark relief in this "page...
Half of a yellow sun
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'WINNER OF WINNERS' One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'A literary masterpiece' DAILY MAIL 'An immense achievement'...
Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a...
Mask of the sun the science, history, and forgotten lore of eclipses
Dvorak, John
Paper Book
What do Virginia Woolf, the rotation of hurricanes, Babylonian kings and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity all have in common? Eclipses. Always spectacular and, today, precisely predicable, eclipses have allowed us to know when the first Olympic games were played and, long before the...
She who became the sun
Parker-Chan, Shelley
Paper Book
HUGO AWARD FINALIST FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor.She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is a historical fantasy...
Gardens of the sun
McAuley, Paul J.
Paper Book
The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. Outers...

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