What all I read this summer 📚
I cannot imagine my life without novels.
A gif of a curly, medium-length, blonde-haired woman clasping her hands together and shaking them as she says “I love books.”
Fiction is so relaxing, inspiring, enriching, perspective-giving to me.
What keeps me reading:
1. Knowing that nothing - NO. THING. - anchors me into a good bedtime routine like a great novel.
2. Keeping my book queue full by using the hold services of my public library. Every time I hear or read about a book that piques my interest - or discover an author I'm into - I go put their books on hold at the library.
3. Never forcing myself to finish a book I'm just not that into.
Any stretch of not-reading, for me, is a canary in a coal mine. I am ALWAYS on the wrong track if there's no novel on my bedside table.
Happily, that has not been the case in a long long time.
I've been reading fiendishly all summer, and thought I'd share a list of my favorites with you. And my wonderful right-hand woman Sami linked them all for you! Here's what I've read and enjoyed:
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky
Take What You Need by Idra Novey
Dele Weds Destiny by Tomi Obaro
Half-Blown Rose by Leesa Cross-Smith
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera
Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel by Xochitl Gonzalez
Right now, I'm reading Ann Patchett's Tom Lake. And next up is Brandon Taylor's Last Americans, which I've been saving but can't delay any longer.
I hope this list gives you a new title or three to check out . . . and I'd love to hear what YOU read and loved this summer, too.
xo,
Natalie