10 New Summer Reads You Need to Add to Your TBR
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Can you imagine it? A cold drink, warm sun, and sand, and a summer read in your hands. If you listen closely you can hear the sounds of the waves crashing against the surf. Summer reads promise a special sort of feeling. You can’t see it yet? Well, we’ve got you covered. Just choose one of these summer reads and you’ll be golden (pun intended).

Fantasy Summer Reads
Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini

The Fractalverse Series: To Sleep in a Sea of Stars continues with Fractal Noise.
On July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly.
Arriving on a seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII. It is a circular pit, about 50 kilometers wide.
Its curve is not of nature, but design.
Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why.
For some, the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others a risk not worth taking, and for one it is a desperate attempt to find meaning in an uncaring universe.
Each step they take toward the mysterious abyss is more punishing than the last.
And the ghosts of their past follow.
The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs

Opening with an exsanguination The Carnivale of Curiosities is a gothic tale of bargains, jealousy, and murder set in a spectacular circus.
In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius’Â Carnivale of Curiosities. Each performance is a limited engagement, and London’s elite boldly dares the dangerous streets of Southwark to witness the Carnivale’s astounding assemblage of marvels. For a select few, however, the real show begins behind the curtain. Rumors abound that the showâs proprietor, Aurelius Ashe, is more than an average magician. It’s said that for the right price, he can make any wish come true. No one knows the truth of this claim better than Lucien the Lucifer, the Carnivale’s star attraction. Born with the ability to create fire, he’s dazzled spectators since he was a boy.
When Odilon Rose, one of the most notorious men in London, comes calling with a proposition regarding his young and beautiful charge, Charlotte, Ashe is tempted to refuse. After revealing, however, that Rose holds a secret that threatens the security of the troupe’s most vulnerable members, Ashe has no choice but to sign an insidious contract.
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The stakes grow higher as Lucien finds himself drawn to Charlotte and her to him, an attraction that spurs a perilous course of events. Grave secrets, recovered horrors, and what it means to be family come to a head in this vividly imagined spectacleâwith the lives of all those involved suspended in the balance.
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Thriller Summer Reads
The Quiet Tenant by ClĂŠmence Michallon

One of the most anticipated summer reads of 2023 â˘
Told through the perspectives of Rachel, Cecilia, and Emily, The Quiet Tenant explores the psychological impact of Aidanâs crimes on the women in his life.
Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate town where he lives. But Aidan has a dark secret heâs been keeping from everyone in town and those closest to him. Heâs a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and thereâs a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed, fearing for her life.Â
When Aidanâs wife dies, he and his thirteen-year-old daughter Cecilia are forced to move. Aidan has no choice but to bring Rachel along, introducing her to Cecilia as a âfamily friendâ who needs a place to stay. Aidan is betting on Rachel, after five years of captivity. He’s hoping that Rachel is too brainwashed and fearful to attempt to escape. But little does he know Rachel is a fighter. Recognizing that Cecilia might just be the lifeline she has waited for all these years.
The Absolutes by Molly Dektar

The Absolutes is a seductive, fiercely intelligent, and achingly beautiful tale.
When Nora, a withdrawn American teenager, is sent to live with relatives in Turin, she meets Nicola, the enigmatic son of the most powerful aristocratic family in Italy. They forge a sudden, powerful connection and a reckless feeling takes hold of Nora: blind trust and insatiable desire.
Years later in New York, chance brings them together, and the two begin an affair. But Nora is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction when unrelenting currents of obsession, control, and revenge entangle her in a secret plot to overthrow Nicolaâs corrupt father. Soon, she must decide for herself what makes a person truly evil and what sheâs willing to excuse for a chance at total intimacy.Â
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Romance Summer Reads
Happy Place by Emily Henry

The queen of summer reads releases her latest book with Happy Place. In Happy Place, Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since college. Except, nowâfor reasons theyâre still not discussingâthey donât.
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After breaking up five months ago, they still havenât told their best friends.
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This is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend groupâs yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual getaway from the world, where for one blissful week they leave behind their lives; Enjoying their time with the people who understand them most.
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Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. They canât stand to break their friendsâ hearts, so theyâll play their parts. And, after years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one weekâŚin front of those who know you best?
The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hollywood love story and take both of their careers to the next level.
The True Love Experiment is the book fans have been waiting for. But when the lights come on and all eyes are on her, it turns out the happily ever after Fizzy had all but given up on might lie just behind the camera.
Felicity âFizzyâ Chen is lost. Sure, sheâs got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when sheâs asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasnât been practicing what sheâs preached.
Fizzy hasnât ever really been in love. Lust? Definitely. But that swoon-worthy, canât-stop-thinking-about-him, all-encompassing feeling? Nope. Nothing. What happens when the optimism sheâs spent her career encouraging in readers starts to feel like a lie?
Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker, and single father, loves his work in large part because it allows him to live near his daughter. But when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, putting his job on the line, Connor is out of his element. He’s desperate to find his romantic lead, and a chance run-in with Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution. What if he could show the queen of romance herself falling head-over-heels for all the world to see?
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Dystopian Summer Reads
The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

Claire Fullerâs The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival. A story of suspense, grief and hope, consequences, and connectedness. Posing the question of what truly defines us. And to what lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love.
A quiet post-apocalyptic pandemic novel where the horrors of a civilization-destroying virus takes hold. Neffy is a disgraced former marine biologist who volunteers for an experimental trial in the early days of the virus. When she awakens a week later, the world outside the facility has spiraled into chaos.
Women’s Fiction Summer Reads
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma TĂśrzs

Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a spellbinding debut novel, and the considered one the best summer reads of 2023. Estranged half-sisters are tasked with guarding their familyâs library of magical books working together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection.
All magic comes with a price, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother. Joanna has chosen to isolate herself in their family home in Vermont. Devoting her life to the study of these cherished tomes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, theyâll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . .
Ink Blood Sister Scribe is a suspenseful and richly atmospheric novel that draws readers in.
Alchemy of a Blackbird by Claire McMillan

Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the Riviera. Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers. As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others donât see her as a fellow artist. They have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent. She finds refuge in a mysterious bookshop, where she stumbles into a world of occult learning. An intensifying esoteric practice in the tarot that helps her light the bright fire of her creative genius.
When travel documents come through, Remedios and Benjamin flee to Mexico where she is reunited with Leonora Carrington. Together, the women tap into their creativity, stake their independence, and each finds their true love. But it is the tarot that enables them to access the transcendent that lies on the other side of consciousness. To become the truest Surrealists of all.
No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives.Â
That was the beauty of books, wasnât it? They took you places you didnât know you needed to goâŚ
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, and a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Aliceâs novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways?and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.