Publisher’s Weekly’s and HuffPost’s Top Books to Read This Summer

Summer is almost here! To lay on the beautiful sand, hearing the soothing sounds of the ocean water…with a great book in your hand. But with the beaches calling your name and all the great books out there, you may be having a difficult time deciding on what to read. But don’t fret! Both Publishers Weekly and Huffington Post compiled a list of great reads that are being released this summer:

 

Publishers Weekly’s List:

1. Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)-Jon Fine
2. Modern Romance: An Investigation – Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
3. The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
4. Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald – Edited by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan
5. Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings – Shirley Jackson
6. The Silenced – James DeVita
7. The Complete Eightball 1–18 – Daniel Clowes
8. Flash: The Homeless Donkey Who Taught Me about Life, Faith, and Second Chances – Rachel Anne Ridge
9. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life -William Finnegan
10. The Festival of Insignificance – Milan Kundera, trans. from the French by Linda Asher
11. Adrift – Paul Griffin
12. Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker – Julian Voloj and Claudia Ahlering
13. Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood – Grayson Perry
14. Fell of Dark – Patrick Downes
15. Crooked – Austin Grossman
16. Blue Fasa – Nathaniel Mackey
17. Finders Keepers – Stephen King
18. All That Followed – Gabriel Urza
19. Uprooted – Naomi Novik

 

Huffington Post’s List

1. The Making of Zombie Wars by Aleksandar Hemon — May 5
2. The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard — May 12
3. The Familiar: Volume 1 by Mark Z. Danielewski— May 12
4. Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll— May 12
5. The Rocks by Peter Nichols— May 26
6. Muse by Jonathan Galassi— June 2
7. The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein — June 2
8. In the Country by Mia Alvar–June 16
   
9. Music for Wartime by Rebecca Makkai — June 23
10. The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson — June 30
11. Infinite Home by Kathleen Alcott — Aug. 4
12. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley — July 2
13. Speak: A Novel by Louisa Hall — July 7
14. Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont — July 7
15. The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch — July 7
16. A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball — July 21
17. The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips — Aug. 11
18. You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman — Aug. 25

I’m adding Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee because I can’t believe neither one of the lists mentioned it. I definitely can’t wait for that one to come out!