SUMMER READING
Here is a list of the titles I read this summer. Of these twenty-two titles, seven were on my intended summer reading list. I started and abandoned American Spy and The Power of the Dog, read one story in Lauren Groff’s Florida, and am more than a quarter of the way into Middlemarch. It’s a long book and I’m taking it slowly.
My favorite books were The Guest Book, Exposure, and The Lost Man of the novels and Salt Path and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone in nonfiction. But, I have to say, Into the Raging Sea is an amazing piece of reporting.
FICTION
Carnegie’s Maid by Marie Benedict
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
Evie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Force of Nature by Jane Harper (mystery)
The Guest Book by Sarah Blake
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Lost Man by Jane Harper (mystery)
Mapping Murder by William D. Andrews (mystery)
The Oysterville Sewing Circle by Susan Wiggs
A Question of Trust by Penny Vincenzi
Shadows on the Lake by Giovanni Cocco & Anneris Magella (mystery)
When We Left Cuba by Chantal Cleeton
Winter Cottage by Mary Ellen Taylor
NONFICTION
America’s Reluctant Prince: Life of JFK Jr. by Steven Gillon
Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (memoir)
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
Salt Path by Raynor Winn (memoir)
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl (memoir)
I also skimmed portions of Adventures in Nanaville by Anna Quindlen and The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates.
