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15 Books You Have To Read This Summer

If you are a nerd like me or just really love a good book, then this post is for you.

Nina Clark
Aug 08, 2016
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15 Books You Have To Read This Summer
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After debating about what to write this week and testing out different topic ideas, I decided to settle with a topic I am ever so passionate about: books. If you are a nerd like me or just really love a good book, then this post is for you. One of my favorite things about summer is the amount of free time I have to read books. This summer I am taking a few classes and working here and there, so I have a bit less free time, but I still manage to squeeze in a few books to read whenever I can squeeze in a few minutes. With the little time of summer we still have left, I thought I would give you a list of some summer reads you should definitely check out and pick up if you can find a spare minute or two. I like reading a wide range when it comes to genres of books, so I hope I can list something for everyone. I hope you can find something to your taste and that you’ll suggest these books to other bookworms like myself. Happy reading!

  1. "The Language of Flowers" by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  2. "Every Thing Every Thing" by Nicola Yoon
  3. "Everything I Never Told You" by Celeste Ng
  4. "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
  5. "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara
  6. "All the Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
  7. "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjimen
  8. "The Witches" by Stacy Schiff
  9. "Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  10. "Why Not Me?" by Mindy Kaling
  11. "Go Set a Watchmen" by Harper Lee
  12. "Dog Songs" by Mary Oliver
  13. "On Trails" by Robert Moore
  14. "Lilly and the Octopus" by Steven Rowley
  15. "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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