Your Summer Reading List Is Here
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All the books we'll be picking up this season
Sweltering humidity is making its annual descent. Wouldn’t it all be nicer with a sea breeze, a glass of something icy cold, and a good book? Well, at least we can handle the latter. Your summer reading list has landed: here are all of the books we’ll be cracking into this season.
16 Hot Books To Read This Summer
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Yael van der Wouden bagged the Women’s Prize for Fiction with this exhilarating tale of twisted desire set in post-war rural Netherlands.
Paperback, £9.99
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Albion by Anna Hope
A dysfunctional family reunites at their ancestral pile in Sussex for the patriarch’s funeral in this C&TH Book Club pick.
Hardback, £16.99
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Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn
It’s summertime, and a vulnerable man discovers his birth family in this Orwell Prize Finalist.
Hardback, £20
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The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
This touching organ donation tale weaves two intimate family stories together, and clinched the second annual Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
Paperback, £10.99
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Ripeness by Sarah Moss
An unwanted baby cleaves the heart of this breathtaking love story, spanning ’60s Italy to contemporary Ireland.
Hardback, £20
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Gunk by Saba Sams
Brighton nightclub worker Jules is left holding the baby in this queer gem by the author of Send Nudes.
Hardback, £16.99
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Girl, 1983 by Lin Ullman
A naive girl flees her mother for a Paris casting couch in this startling and genre-defying autofictional work.
Hardback, £18.99
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Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle
Family ghosts flavour a New York restaurant when spirits are summoned in Daria Lavelle’s debut novel.
Hardback, £16.99
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The Emperor Of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
Beloved writer Ocean Vuong spins a tale of love and loneliness in this summer 2025 must-read.
Hardback, £20
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Favourite Daughter by Morgan Dick
Sibling rivalry propels Morgan Dick’s darkly funny debut novel.
Hardback, £16.99
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Food Person by Adam Roberts
If Bridget Jones worked in a test kitchen, she would be Isabella Pasternak in this food writer’s delicious debut novel.
Hardback, £16.99
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Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood
This timely tragi-comic satire tears through the guts of the war news industry.
Hardback, £16.99
Out 3 July
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Six Weeks by the Sea by Paula Byrne
History’s greatest romance writer becomes the subject in this in this new historical fiction backdropped by a fashionable Georgian seaside resort.
Hardback, £16.99
Out 28 August
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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
The cult-followed, globally best-selling author of Normal People is back with arguably her best work to date – and it’s now in paperback, too.
Paperback, £9.99
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Evenings and Weekends by Oisin McKenna
It’s a sweltering summer in London when a beached whale and four stories collide in Oisin McKenna’s tour de force debut.
Paperback, £9.99
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Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Persist with the density and you’ll be rewarded with a salaciously rich tale of three generations in a wealthy American family.
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