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Here are some great Summer book reads! You guys gave tons of feedback and I love sharing it.
**If the books have comas between them that means they are by the same author
Mark of the Lion Series (My favorite series)
The Women in Cabin 10, In a Dark Dark Wood
Sharp Objects, Dark Places and Gone Girls by Gillian Flynn (The are crazy but page turners)
Girl on the Train, Into the Water
Redeeming Love (my favorite book), The Masterpiece
Husbands Secret, Big Little Lies, What Alice Forgot – Liane Moriarty
Pretty Girls ( I was terrified but it’s also a page turner)
Commonwealth
The Lake House, The Secret Keeper, The Forgotten Garden, Distant Hours
All The Light We Can Not See
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Wives
Lock Every Door – currently reading and enjoying!
The Chemist
The Family Upstairs
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Then She Was Gone
Something Borrowed
Pride and Prejudice
A Man Called Ove
The Harbinger (My husband read and enjoyed)
The Couple Next Door
The Fortune Hunter
The Silent Patient
Girl Wash Your Face
The Wife Between Us
The Favorite Daughter
East of Eden – Long read
The Alice Network
A Stranger in the House
Something in the Water
Letters to the Lost
The Pillars of the Earth – another long read but a classic
The Killing Lessons – pretty scary and graphic but I liked the ending
Beach Read
The Nightingale, Winter Garden
Invisible – James Patterson
Juliet – Anne Fortier
Behind Closed Doors
Little Fires Everywhere
Leaving Time , The Storyteller, Small Great Things, House Rules by Jodi Picoult
Rules of Magic ( recommended if you like Harry Potter) by Alice Hoffman
The Women In the Window
The Last Mrs Parrish
The Great Alone
Luckiest Girl Alive
Behind Her Eyes
The Seven Husbands by Evelyn Huge
The Lying Game
The Stranger Beside Me
The Best Yes
The Noticer by Andy Andrews
Love Does by Bob Goff
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Boy’s in a Boat
Rebecca- by Daphne du Marrier
The Undoing of Saint Silvanus
The Tale of Time Beginning – Ruth Ozeki
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Love Lives Here by Maria Goff
Through Flood and Flame
In the Water they Can’t See You Cry
Night
Now You See Her by James Patterson
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Two Family House by Lynda Cohen
What She Knew
A Stranger Next Door
Mystic Summer
American’s First Daughter
Before We Were Yours
The Good Earth
The Light We Lost
The Weekenders – by Mary Kay Andrews
The Geurnsey Literay and Potato Peel Pie Society
Eligible
If We Were Villians by M.L. Rios
The Silent Sister
Final Girls
The Kind Worth Killing
All The Missing Girls
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
When We Were Yours
Sweeney Sister
Magnolia Nights
Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner
We Are Called to Rise – Laura McBride
Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
The Wedding Date
Uninvited – Lyse Terkeurst
Lilac Girls
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
For The Love by Jen Hatmaker
Dark Matter
The Girl Before
The Aviators Wife
The Wanderer
Goldfinch
Queen of Hearts
The Lucky One- Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
American Dirt (multiple recommended)
Verity (multiple recommend)
Ashes in the Snow, Salt to the Sea
Winter Sea
The Hunting Party
My Lovely Wife
What She Knew
The Turn of Key
Need to Know
The Light We Lost
Everything I Never Told You
When We Belived in Mermaids
The Other Women
Such a Fun Age (multiple recommendations)
The Next Right Thing
The Murder House
The Paris Wife
Open Book – Jessica Simpson
The Circle Maker
Louise Penny
Kristy Woodson Harvey
Melanie Shankle
Ashley Farley
Alice Hoffman
Harlan Coben
Colleen Hoover
Renee Carlino
Nicholas Sparks
Paula Hawkins
Liane Moriarty
Karen Kingsbury
Kate Morton
Emily Henry
Ruth Ware
Lisa Jewell
Francine Rivers
Kristen Hannah
Brain on Fire
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Baxer Series
The Selection
The Bone Series
Women’s Murder Club (20 book series)
Still House Lake Series
The After Series (5 Books) By Anna Todd
Me Before You series by JoJo Moyes
The Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Harry Potter
Non Fiction
American Kingpin
Hope this helps and you find some new summer book reads. I would love to hear if I missed any good books and will add them to the list!
xoxo
Mary Margaret
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