Hottest Summer Reads of 2023

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Fiction

Chain Gang All Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, 2023

The Ferryman

Justin Cronin, 2023

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese, 2023

Bad Summer People

Emma Rosenblum, 2023

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

Adriana Herrera, 2023

Good Night, Irene

Luis Alberto Urrea, 2023

The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand, 2023

Mrs. S

K. Patrick, 2023

Crook Manifesto

Colson Whitehead, 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride, 2023

Nonfiction

In Sardinia

An Unexpected Journey in Italy

Jeff Biggers, 2023

Banana Ball

The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas

Jesse Cole, 2023

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny, 2023

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop

Alba Donati, 2023

The Last Action Heroes

The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

Nick de Semlyen, 2023

American Journey: On the Road with Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Burroughs

Wes Davis, 2023

What an Owl Knows

The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman, 2023

100 Places to See After You Die

A Travel Guide to the Afterlife

Ken Jennings, 2023

Beastly

The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us

Keggie Carew, 2023

The Underworld

Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey, 2023

Teens & Young Adult

Rubi Ramos's Recipe for Success

Jessica Parra, 2023

A Starlet's Secret to a Sensational Afterlife

Kendall Kulper, 2023

Her Good Side

Rebekah Weatherspoon, 2023

The Grimoire of Grave Fates

Hanna Alkaf, Margaret Owen, 2023

The Eternal Return of Clara Hart

Louise Cook, Louise Finch, 2022

An Echo in the City

K. X. Song, 2023

A Guide to the Dark

Meriam Metoui, 2023

One of Us Is Back

Karen M. McManus, 2023

I Am Not Alone

Francisco X. Stork, 2023

Accountable

The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

Dashka Slater, 2023

Children's

Lei and the Fire Goddess

Malia Maunakea, 2023

Camp Sylvania

Julie Murphy, 2023

Control Freaks

J.E. Thomas, 2023

Ginny Off the Map

Caroline Hickey, 2023

How to Catch a Polar Bear

Stacy DeKeyser, 2023

The Boy With Wings

Sir Lenny Henry, 2021

Where the Water Takes Us

Alan Barillaro, 2023

Hope in the Valley

Mitali Perkins, 2023

The International House of Dereliction

Jacqueline Davies, 2023

Barely Floating

Lilliam Rivera, 2023

When You Can Swim

Jack Wong, 2023

Summer Is for Cousins

Rajani LaRocca, 2023

Our Pool

Lucy Ruth Cummins, 2023

Tiny Barbarian Conquers the Kraken!

Ame Dyckman, 2023