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Here’s what Boston.com readers say they’re reading this summer
We asked for the books you plan to read this summer. You answered.
We got the recommendations from the experts. Now, Boston.com readers are sharing their picks for the books to dive into this summer.
Dozens of readers weighed-in to share the titles they’re looking forward to exploring during the dog days of summer, and their recommendations range from classic works of literature to new fiction, memoirs, and engrossing nonfiction.
While we got scores of specific titles, some people simply shared their perfect summer book experience or offered their reading plan for the upcoming season.
“For summer beach reading, I enjoy lighter books, mysteries, or historical fiction that includes romance,” Alicia of Taunton wrote.
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“I feel like the only acceptable answer is rereading all the ‘Twilight’ and ‘Harry Potter’ books,” one person told us on Instagram.
“Tryna get through all Oscar Wilde’s works,” wrote another Boston.com reader.
Below, check out the more than 50 books your fellow Boston.com readers say they plan to pick up this summer.
Fiction
- “Call Me by Your Name” by André Aciman (Jan. 2007)
- “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen (1813)
- “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach (Sept. 1970)
- “The Mothers” by Brit Bennett (Oct. 2016)
- “The Mighty Oak” by Jeff W. Bens (Sept. 2020)
- “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë (1847)
- “By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept” by Paulo Coelho (May 1996)
- “The Boston Girl” by Anita Diamant (Dec. 2014)
- “Library of the Dead” by T.L. Huchu (June 2021)
- “The Bone Scroll” by Elizabeth Hunter (July 2021)
- “My Heart is a Chainsaw” by Stephen Graham Jones (Aug. 2021)
- “Zorba The Greek” by Nikos Kazantzakis (1946)
- “Billy Summers” by Stephen King (Aug. 2021)
- “Fifty Words for Rain” by Asha Lemmie (Sept. 2020)
- “The Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller (March 2012)
- “The Red Book” by James Patterson and David Ellis (March 2021)
- “The Madness of the Crowds” by Louise Penny (Aug. 2021)
- “Malibu Rising” by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 2021)
- “Survive the Night” by Riley Sager (June 2021)
- “A Gentleman in Moscow” by Amor Towles (Sept. 2016)
- “That Summer” by Jennifer Weiner (May 2021)
- “Our Woman in Moscow” by Beatriz Williams (June 2021)
- “Frankly in Love” by David Yoon (Sept. 2019)
Nonfiction
- “Things You Think About When You Bite Your Nails” by Amalia Andrade (Oct. 2020)
- “The British Are Coming” by Rick Atkinson (April 2020)
- “The Outermost House” by Henry Beston (1928)
- “The Second Mountain” by David Brooks (April 2019)
- “The Mamba Mentality” by Kobe Bryant (Oct. 2018)
- “Burke’s Law” by Brian Burke with Stephen Brunt (Oct. 2020)
- “The Puma Years” by Laura Coleman (June 2021)
- “When Women Ruled The World” by Kara Cooney (Oct. 2018)
- “The Rediscovery of India” by Meghnad Desai (April 2011)
- “Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger” by Lisa Donovan (Aug. 2020)
- “Big Vape” by Jamie Ducharme (May 2021)
- “How Not to Be Wrong” by Jordan Ellenberg (May 2014)
- “Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C. Ford (June 2021)
- “Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man” by Steve Harvey (June 2014)
- “The Story of More” by Hope Jahren (Nov. 2021)
- “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson (April 2020)
- “She Said” by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Sept. 2019)
- “Shoe Dog” by Phil Knight (April 2016)
- “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (Dec. 2011)
- “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book” by Susan M. Love (Jan. 1990)
- “The Next 500 Years” by Christopher E. Mason (April 2021)
- “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Nov. 2010)
- “12 Rules for Life” by Jordan B. Peterson (Jan. 2018)
- “The Heart Has Its Reasons” by Wallis Simpson (Jan. 1956)
- “House of Sticks” by Ly Tran (June 2021)
- “Caste” by Isabel Wilkerson (Aug. 2020)
- “The House Of Jaipur” by John Zubrzycki (Oct. 2021)
Young Adult
- “Every Moment After” by Joseph Moldover (April 2019)
Middle Grade
- “Leo, Inventor Extraordinaire” by Luke Xavier Cunningham (April 2021)
- “Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery (1908)
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