Ultimate Summer Reading List (Add to Cozi!)

Jun 9, 2015 | Add to Cozi, Blog

It’s always nice to get a book recommendation, and with this summer reading list in Cozi you’ll have a bunch right at your fingertips. Visit the Summer Reading List page on RealSimple.com to get details on each book and read the first-person recommendations by the noted authors who picked them.

And now, for your beach-chair pleasure…

Summer Reading List

  • The Vacationers, by Emma Straub
  • Out of Africa, by Isak Dinesen
  • Tourist Season, by Carl Hiaasen
  • Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple
  • Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
  • Lessons in French, by Hilary Reyl
  • Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Boy, by Lara Santoro
  • The Terra-Cotta Dog, by Andrea Camilleri
  • The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love, by Kristin Kimball
  • Unaccustomed Earth, by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Chill, by Ross Macdonald
  • The Underground Man, by Ross Macdonald
  • The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters
  • The Chaperone, by Laura Moriarty
  • The Odyssey, by Homer
  • Jim the Boy, by Tony Earley
  • Goodbye for Now, by Laurie Frankel
  • Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
  • The Demonologist, by Andrew Pyper
  • Drinking With Men, by Rosie Schaap
  • Mary and O’Neil, by Justin Cronin
  • Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, by Helen Simonson
  • Love Water Memory, by Jennie Shortridge
  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
  • Legends of the Fall, by Jim Harrison
  • Instructions for a Heatwave, by Maggie O’Farrell
  • When Will There Be Good News?, by Kate Atkinson
  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, by Patrick Süskind
  • These Things Happen, by Richard Kramer
  • Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware
  • Poems, by Elizabeth Bishop
  • Frederica, by Georgette Heyer
  • Drift, by Jon McGoran


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