Set in Summer

Level up with these sunny books set in the summertime!

Updated April 24, 2025
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An American summer : love and death in Chicago
Kotlowitz, Alex
Paper Book
2020 J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE WINNER From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in...
Arctic traverse : a thousand-mile summer trekking the Brooks Range
Engelhard, Michael
Paper Book
"Alternately profound, funny, and enlightening . . . focused not on the death-defying prowess of the adventurer, but on the wild glory of place." --Erin McKittrick, author of A Long Trek Home, on American Wild A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland,...
Bad summer people
Rosenblum, Emma
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. "This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked,...
The beach at Summerly : a novel
Williams, Beatriz
Paper Book
"There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams." -- The New York Times Book Review A ravishing summer read from New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams, sweeping readers back to a mid-century New England rich with...
Beyond summer
Wingate, Lisa.
Paper Book
National bestselling author Lisa Wingate returns with an uplifting novel set in Blue Sky Hill, where unexpected challenges and new relationships give deeper meanings to "home". When Tam Lambert learns that her family's upscale home is in foreclosure, the life she's known is...
The complete summer cookbook : beat the heat with 500 recipes that make the most of summer's bounty
America's Test Kitchen (Firm)
Paper Book
The only cookbook you'll need during the year's warmest months A hot day and hanging over your stove were never meant to be. When fresh produce beckons but you haven't much energy to respond, these recipes help you settle into a more relaxed kind of cooking designed to keep you...
Crimson summer
Graham, Heather
Paper Book
They're not going down without a fight. When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small horse figurine amid the bloody aftermath of a gang massacre in the Everglades, she recognizes it immediately. The toy is the calling card of the apocalypse cult that Amy and...
Don't forget to write : a novel
Confino, Sara Goodman
Paper Book
In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and emotional novel by the bestselling author of She's Up to No Good. When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents...
The games
Patterson, James
Paper Book
In the #1 bestselling series, Private's Jack Morgan must hunt down a killer before the Olympic games begin in Rio. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil knows how to throw a party. So it's a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports: the World Cup and the...
The long summer : how climate changed civilization
Fagan, Brian M.
Paper Book
For more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the...
Malibu rising : a novel
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today * From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . . "Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach,...
One summer
Baldacci, David.
Paper Book
David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestseller. It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short...
One summer : America, 1927
Bryson, Bill.
Paper Book
A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book A GoodReads Reader's Choice In One Summer Bill Bryson, one of our greatest and most beloved nonfiction writers, transports readers on a journey back to one amazing season in American life. The summer of 1927 began...
Other names for love
Soomro, Taymour
Paper Book
A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy's life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to...
The overdue life of Amy Byler
Harms, Kelly
Paper Book
An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. "A laugh-out-loud funny, pitch-perfect novel that will have readers rooting for this unlikely, relatable, and totally lovable heroine, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler is the...
0101810718888
WHA
Paper Book
Summer breezes
Macomber, Debbie
Paper Book
This summer, relax with two breezy tales of how opposites attract. Because sometimes very different people can make a perfect match. The Way to a Man's Heart On the surface, Meghan O'Day and Grey Carlyle seem like they couldn't be more different. But stuffy literature...
Summer Island : a novel
Hannah, Kristin.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The renowned author of The Women presents a poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. "[Kristin] Hannah is...
Summer reading
McKinlay, Jenn
Paper Book
When a woman who'd rather do anything than read meets a swoon-worthy bookworm, sparks fly, making for one hot-summer fling in New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay's new rom-com. For Samantha Gale, a summer on Martha's Vineyard at her family's tiny cottage was...
0101813776701
LT WIL
Paper Book
2009: Julia Conley inherits a house from an unknown great-aunt and goes back to England for the first time since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six. While sorting through the house, she discovers a painting hidden in an old wardrobe and a window onto the house's history begins to...

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