Books to Read this Summer (2023)

by The Washington Post

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22 books

Whether you’re traveling or catching the sun at home in the coming months, here are 23 books we’ve enjoyed this year that make for good summer reading.

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See the source list and commentary at www.washingtonpost.com

Age of Vice

Deepti Kapoor, 2023

Alexandra Petri's US History

Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Alexandra Petri, 2023

The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen, 2023

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton, 2023

Charles Portis: Collected Works (LOA #369)

Norwood / True Grit / The Dog of the South / Masters of Atlantis / Gringos / Stories & Other Writings

Charles Portis, 2023

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese, 2023

Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

Lucinda Williams, 2023

The Guest

Emma Cline, 2023

Happy Place

Emily Henry, 2023

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig, 2023

Lives of the Wives

Five Literary Marriages

Carmela Ciuraru, 2023

Lone Women

Victor LaValle, 2023

Maame

A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

Jessica George, 2023

Monsters

A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer, 2023

My Father's House

Joseph O'Connor, 2023

Palo Alto

A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris, 2023

The Possibility of Life

Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

Jaime Green, 2023

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld, 2023

Small Mercies

Dennis Lehane, 2023

The Terraformers

Annalee Newitz, 2023

The Wager

David Grann, 2023

The White Lady

Jacqueline Winspear, 2023