Summer is the season for fun hang out sessions with your friends, slurping on cool lemonades by the pool, striving for thrilling midnight adventures and catching up on your summer reads. To help you escape reality, here are six book recommendations. Enjoy!
1. Paper Towns by John Green
For those who didn’t know, Paper Towns is originally a book, written by the author of The Fault In Our Stars, John Green. The film was recently released but we’d highly recommend that you to read the book first. This is a fun book is about a high school student named Quentin, who is in search for his neighbour and love interest, Margo Roth Spiegelman, who disappears. Margo leaves clues for Quentin to uncover, so Quentin, alongside his friends will embark on a journey of self discovery to find the missing girl.
2. Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Since You’ve Been Gone is about two very different best friends, the introverted Emily and the outgoing Sloane. One day, Sloane disappears and left Emily a to-do list. Emily submits to Sloane’s list, in hopes that it will lead her to her best friend. The tasks given by Sloane throws Emily out of her comfort zone, requiring her to get over her fears and reach out to more people.
3. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
After the death of her mother and the end of her marriage, Cheryl thought she had lost everything at the age of 22. Four years later, with nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. She decided to hike more than a thousand miles off the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington alone, without any experience or training. Wild was adapted into a film in 2014, starring Reese Witherspoon.
4. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Beauty Queens revolves around a group of contestants in the Miss Teen Dream Pageant. The girls thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea, crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. What’s a beauty queen to do? This book will make you laugh, think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.
5. Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat by Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella
Mother and daughter, Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella, present a collection of hilarious true confessions that all women can relate to. From identity theft to the hazards of bicycling to college reunions and eating on the beach, the duo tackle the quirks, absurdities, and wonders of everyday life with wit and warmth. Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? is about seizing the day and learning to laugh at yourself and at this insane world.
6. The Summer of Good Intentions by Wendy Francis
The Summer of Good Intentions is a book told from the POV of three sisters who are each dealing with issues they are trying to hide from their family. Summer time at Cape Cod used to be the same, but everything falls apart when the family comes together for their annual summer vacation, and every one of them are carrying more secrets than suitcases.
