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title: Books to break out this summer
date: 2026-07-07T12:35:00-05:00
author: Jenn Levreault
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# Books to break out this summer

July 7, 2026

 

 

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 Summer is a great time to pick up a book — with PTO and Summer Fridays, you might finally have a pocket of time to read. Here are our team’s recommendations fit for a variety of settings and moods, so you can curate your reading experience.

- Matched, Crossed, and Reached by Ally Condie
- Game Changers: The Heated Rivalry Series by Rachel Reid
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
- Kris Jenner… and All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
- Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
- Grape Juice by Eliza Dumais
- Holiday Country by Inci Atrek
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Happy Place by Emily Henry
- Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
- The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
- The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
- Fame Sick by Lena Dunham
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives by Duncan Harris and Ian Anderson
- Get Your Shit Together by David Shrigley
- Florida! by A24
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan
- Acid for the Children by Flea
- Kris Jenner… and All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
- Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Letters from Gaza by Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer
- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
- Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
- Red Rising by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
- Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- Yearbook by Seth Rogen
- The Stand by Stephen King
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- Anything by Ross Gay
- The God of the Woods by Maya Hawke
- The Wager by David Grann
- Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
- The Score by Elle Kennedy
- “Survivor Type” (short story) by Stephen King

 

 

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