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Episode Synopsis
Summer reads are a favorite theme of mine and I am always looking for fun books that fall into this category, so I'm sharing my recommendations with you with the hopes that you might also find some good ones.
Literary Fiction:
Keeper of Lost Things, by Ruth Hogan
Return to Valleto, by Dominic Smith
The Librarianist, by Patrick deWitt
The Guncle, by Steven Rowley
Cozies:
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, Catherine Ingelman-Sundberg
Carlene O'Connor books: Irish Village Mysteries, County Kerry Mysteries, and Home to Ireland Mysteries
Richard Osman books: Thursday Murder Club series
Alan Bradley books: Flavia de Luce series
Rom-Coms:
Beth O'Leary books: The Flatshare, The No-Show, The Road Trip, and The Switch
Sophie Kinsella books: Shopaholic series, Remember Me, and I've Got Your Number
Lily Bennett's Bucket List, by Katherine Dyson
Steamy Romance:
Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang
Darynda Jones books: Charley Davidson series, Betwixt & Between series, and Sunshine Vicram series.
Chick Lit:
Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, by J. Ryan Stradal
Mary Alice Monroe books: Beach House series
Sandra Dallas books
Liane Moriarty books: What Alice Forgot, Truly Madly Guilty, Apples Never Fall and Big Little Lies
Dude Lit:
Reed Farrel Coleman books: Gus Murphy series
Last Flight of Poxl West, by Daniel Torday
IQ series, by Joe Ide
Harry Dresden series, by Jim Butcher
Alex McKnight series, by Steve Hamilton
SF/Fantasy:
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, by Emma Törzs
The Binding, by Bridget Collins
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Measure, by Nikki Erlick
House In the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett
Books about Greek myths: Circe, by Madeline Miller; Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller; Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati; Psyche & Eros, by Luna McNamara; Atalanta, by Jennifer Saint; House of Names, by Colm Toibin
Mystery/Thrillers:
The Hawthorne and Horowitz Investigate series, by Anthony Horowitz
All the Sinners Bleed, by SA Cosby
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson
On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass
Harlan Coben books
Sally Hepworth books
Peter Swanson books
Jane Harper books
Nonfiction:
Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, by Fredrik Backman
Memoirs: As You Wish, by Cary Elwis; Bossypants, by Tina Fey, Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh; Solutions and Other Problems, by Allie Brosh; anything by David Sedaris
A Walk In the Woods, by Bill Bryson
Mary Roach books: Stiff, Gulp, and Grunt
Literary Fiction:
Keeper of Lost Things, by Ruth Hogan
Return to Valleto, by Dominic Smith
The Librarianist, by Patrick deWitt
The Guncle, by Steven Rowley
Cozies:
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, Catherine Ingelman-Sundberg
Carlene O'Connor books: Irish Village Mysteries, County Kerry Mysteries, and Home to Ireland Mysteries
Richard Osman books: Thursday Murder Club series
Alan Bradley books: Flavia de Luce series
Rom-Coms:
Beth O'Leary books: The Flatshare, The No-Show, The Road Trip, and The Switch
Sophie Kinsella books: Shopaholic series, Remember Me, and I've Got Your Number
Lily Bennett's Bucket List, by Katherine Dyson
Steamy Romance:
Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang
Darynda Jones books: Charley Davidson series, Betwixt & Between series, and Sunshine Vicram series.
Chick Lit:
Mad Honey, by Jodi Picoult
Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, by J. Ryan Stradal
Mary Alice Monroe books: Beach House series
Sandra Dallas books
Liane Moriarty books: What Alice Forgot, Truly Madly Guilty, Apples Never Fall and Big Little Lies
Dude Lit:
Reed Farrel Coleman books: Gus Murphy series
Last Flight of Poxl West, by Daniel Torday
IQ series, by Joe Ide
Harry Dresden series, by Jim Butcher
Alex McKnight series, by Steve Hamilton
SF/Fantasy:
Ink Blood Sister Scribe, by Emma Törzs
The Binding, by Bridget Collins
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
The Measure, by Nikki Erlick
House In the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries, by Heather Fawcett
Books about Greek myths: Circe, by Madeline Miller; Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller; Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati; Psyche & Eros, by Luna McNamara; Atalanta, by Jennifer Saint; House of Names, by Colm Toibin
Mystery/Thrillers:
The Hawthorne and Horowitz Investigate series, by Anthony Horowitz
All the Sinners Bleed, by SA Cosby
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin Stevenson
On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass
Harlan Coben books
Sally Hepworth books
Peter Swanson books
Jane Harper books
Nonfiction:
Soul of an Octopus, by Sy Montgomery
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, by Fredrik Backman
Memoirs: As You Wish, by Cary Elwis; Bossypants, by Tina Fey, Hyperbole and a Half, by Allie Brosh; Solutions and Other Problems, by Allie Brosh; anything by David Sedaris
A Walk In the Woods, by Bill Bryson
Mary Roach books: Stiff, Gulp, and Grunt
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