21 Books to Read this Summer 2022

by The Washington Post

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21 books

Whether you’re headed to a far-flung beach or a nearby couch, these books are worthy additions to your summer reading list.

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Nonfiction

Ancestor Trouble

A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Maud Newton, 2022

Finding Me

Viola Davis, 2022

Fire Island

A Century in the Life of an American Paradise

Jack Parlett, 2022

Freezing Order

A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath

Bill Browder, 2022

Funny Farm

My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

Laurie Zaleski, 2022

The Last Resort

A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

Sarah Stodola, 2022

Left on Tenth

A Second Chance at Life

Delia Ephron, 2022

Rickey

The Life and Legend of an American Original

Howard Bryant, 2022

Truly, Madly

Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century

Stephen Galloway, 2022

Watergate

Garrett M. Graff, 2022

Fiction

French Braid

Anne Tyler, 2022

Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus, 2022

The Lioness

Chris Bohjalian, 2022

Mecca

Susan Straight, 2022

Nuclear Family

Joseph Han, 2022

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez, 2022

Ordinary Monsters

(the Talents Series - Book 1)

J. M. Miro, 2022

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel, 2022

True Biz

Sara Novic, 2022

Trust

Hernan Diaz, 2022

Yerba Buena

Nina LaCour, 2022