I love adding a few seasonal specific books into my reading throughout the year. If you also like reading seasonally, here are 12 book recs for your summer TBR 9 of them are recommendations, and 3 are on my personal TBR. I shared the bare bones of this list on Instagram, talked through each book and why its on the list on youtube, and here you can find my quick takes and links to my full review on each title by genre!
No-Spice Romance
Brighter than Before by Courtney Walsh
My Quick Takes:
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 Contemporary Romance
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 kisses only
- Content 🤔 divorce, extramarital affair
Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack
My Quick Takes:
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 Romance/women's fiction/magical realism
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 none/kisses only
- Content 🤔 use of drugs/alcohol, infidelity
Beauty and the Beach by Gracie Ruth Mitchell
My Quick Takes:
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 Romcom
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 none/kisses only
- Content 🤔 past death of brother, toxic family members
Historical Fiction
The Women by Kristin Hannah
My Quick Takes:
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 Historical Fiction
- Language 🤐 strong, God/JC name in vain
- Spice ❤️🔥 descriptive fade to black, ch. 16 (p. 193-194) & ch. 26 (p.335)
- Content 🤔 on page graphic death, violence, war, affair, grief, pregnancy loss, alcohol/drug abuse, ptsd, themes of suicide
Horses of Fire by A. D. Rhine
My Quick Takes:
- 4.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre 📚 Mythological retelling
- Language 🤐 I want to say none, can’t remember 🙈
- Spice ❤️🔥 one fade to black/vague open door scene
- Content 🤔 prostitution, slavery, death, killing, violence, war pregnancy loss, abuse, past sexual assault
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer and Borrows
My Quick Takes
- 5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Genre 📚 WW2 Historical Fiction
- Language 🤐
- Spice ❤️🔥
- Content 🤔
I read this before I wrote book reviews and can't remember language/spice/content for this title
Young Adult
Love Unmasked by Becky Dean
My Quick Takes:
- 4.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre 📚 YA Romance
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 none/brief kisses
- Content 🤔 past death of parent
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
My Quick Takes:
- 4.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre 📚 YA Fantasy
- Language 🤐 mild
- Spice ❤️🔥 none
- Content 🤔 death, violence
Saints and Monsters by Ellen McGinty
My Quick Takes:
- 4.5/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
- Genre 📚 YA Fantasy
- Language 🤐 none
- Spice ❤️🔥 none, just a kiss or two
- Content 🤔 violence, killing
My Personal TBR
I haven’t read these books yet, so this is not me officially recommending them. You can look forward to seeing them in my upcoming content and reviews!
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #17)
My most anticipated Agatha Christie novel! I’m currently 50% in and it’s been an interesting plot so far, excited to see how it wraps up.
Scion by James Islington
This stand alone scifi releases August 1, and I have the Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) sitting on my kindle calling my name. I’ve heard good things from early reviews and that the chapters are short (my fave). I loved Islington’s books, The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few, so I’m excited to dive into this new title!
The Roman Holiday Rule by Andra Loy
This contemporary romance releases August 4, and is published by Haven, the new imprint under Baker Publishing Group. Haven specializes in clean romance. I’ve always been captivated by ancient Roman history, studied abroad in Italy, and love the city of Rome. Safe to say I can’t wait to start this book, it seems like the perfect book for summer!
I’d love to hear what books are favorite summer titles of yours, I’m always looking for more seasonal reads! Let me know if you add any of these books to your summer TBR!
Join me on Youtube to chat about all the books on this list!
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