It's time for my annual summer reading list.


Pictured are books I've recently read or am reading. Below is a list of books I compiled after consulting my crackerjack team of book-loving friends and family members. I hope to be able to read many of them.

Feel free to share, and please send me any book titles you'd like to add.

 

Buckeye, Patrick Ryan

The Antidote, Karen Russell

Raising Hare: A Memoir, Chloe Dalton

This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Daniyal Mueenuddin

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

Culpability, Bruce Holsinger 

A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst

Nesting, Roisin O’Donnell

The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai

Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico

The Spinach King, John Seabrook

Run For the Hills, Kevin Wilson

The Doorman, Chris Pavone

Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks

Audition, Katie Kitamura

The Granddaughter, Bernhard Schlink

Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood

Love Forms, Claire Adam 

Not My Type: One Woman Vs a President, E. Jean Carroll

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Heart The Lover, Lily King

Dead And Alive, Zadie Smith

The Director, Daniel Khelhmann

What We Can Know, Ian McEwan

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, Michael Lewis, ed.

Three Days In June, Anne Tyler

Isola, Allegra Goodman

The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow

Long Distance, Ayeşegül Savas

When The Going Was Good, Graydon Carter

Land, Maggie O’Farrell

Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson

Theo of Golden, Allen Levi

The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, Holly Kennedy

The Calamity Club, Kathryn Stockett

A World Appears, Michael Pollan

Mad Honey, Jody Piccoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy

Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali

Kindred, Olivia Butler

The Bird Hotel, Joyce Maynard

The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong

Visual Intelligence, Amy E. Herman

The Ride of Her Life, Elizabeth Letts

West With Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge

Be Ready When Luck Happens, Ina Garten

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Belle Burden

When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill

Little Wonder, Sophie Chen Keller

Departures, Julian Barnes

 

 

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7/24/2026


It's time for my annual summer reading list.


Pictured are books I've recently read or am reading. Below is a list of books I compiled after consulting my crackerjack team of book-loving friends and family members. I hope to be able to read many of them.

Feel free to share, and please send me any book titles you'd like to add.

 

Buckeye, Patrick Ryan

The Antidote, Karen Russell

Raising Hare: A Memoir, Chloe Dalton

This Is Where the Serpent Lives, Daniyal Mueenuddin

The Wedding People, Alison Espach

Culpability, Bruce Holsinger 

A Marriage at Sea, Sophie Elmhirst

Nesting, Roisin O’Donnell

The Dream Hotel, Laila Lalami

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai

Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico

The Spinach King, John Seabrook

Run For the Hills, Kevin Wilson

The Doorman, Chris Pavone

Memorial Days, Geraldine Brooks

Audition, Katie Kitamura

The Granddaughter, Bernhard Schlink

Stone Yard Devotional, Charlotte Wood

Love Forms, Claire Adam 

Not My Type: One Woman Vs a President, E. Jean Carroll

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us, Jennifer Finney Boylan

Heart The Lover, Lily King

Dead And Alive, Zadie Smith

The Director, Daniel Khelhmann

What We Can Know, Ian McEwan

Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service, Michael Lewis, ed.

Three Days In June, Anne Tyler

Isola, Allegra Goodman

The Salt Stones, Helen Whybrow

Long Distance, Ayeşegül Savas

When The Going Was Good, Graydon Carter

Land, Maggie O’Farrell

Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson

Theo of Golden, Allen Levi

The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, Holly Kennedy

The Calamity Club, Kathryn Stockett

A World Appears, Michael Pollan

Mad Honey, Jody Piccoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

Wild Dark Shore, Charlotte McConaghy

Lion Women of Tehran, Marjan Kamali

Kindred, Olivia Butler

The Bird Hotel, Joyce Maynard

The Emperor of Gladness, Ocean Vuong

Visual Intelligence, Amy E. Herman

The Ride of Her Life, Elizabeth Letts

West With Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge

Be Ready When Luck Happens, Ina Garten

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage, Belle Burden

When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill

Little Wonder, Sophie Chen Keller

Departures, Julian Barnes