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25 Books You'll Actually Want To Read This Summer

...Now that your required reading is a thing of the past.

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25 Books You'll Actually Want To Read This Summer
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Yes, I'm a self-confessed book nerd. I'm an English major- it comes with the territory. If you're a normal college student, then you can barely keep up with the required reading for your classes, let alone have time for reading books you actually want to read. If that's the case, then you know summer is finally the time of year when you can whittle down your reading list that seems to grow longer and longer and is basically never-ending since there are SO MANY good books out there. So here's my list of books I'm going to be reading while I sit by the pool. Let me know in the comments below if there are any you think I should check out!

1. "Fly a Little Higher" by Laura Sobich


2. "Perfected" by Kate Jarvik Birch

3. "The Boy Most Likely To" by Huntley Fitzpatrick

4. "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller

5. "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" by Salman Rushdie

6. "Suicide Notes From Beautiful Girls" by Lynn Weingarten

7. "99 Days" by Katie Cotugno

8. "The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender" by Leslye Walton

9. "Pawn" by Aimee Carter

10. "It's Not What You Think" by Jefferson Bethke

11. "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour" by Joshua Ferris

12. "North of Beautiful" by Justina Chen

13. "What Happened to Goodbye" by Sarah Dessen

14. "Reconstructing Amelia" by Kimberly McCreight

15. "True Love (Three Novels)" by Lurlene McDaniel

16. "One Million Lovely Letters" by Jodi Ann Bickley

17. "Become." by Emery Allen

18. "Tara Road" by Maeve Binchy

19. "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

20. "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin

21. "Thanks for the Trouble" by Tommy Wallach

22. "Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen

23. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy


24. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë

25. "The Queen's Choice" by Cayla Kluver

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