Ready to get into summer reading? Here are 75 books to keep you reading all season long.
Depending on one’s age, summer reading lists can convey a sense of obligation or a feeling of liberation. For children, summer reading is often an annoying or even daunting duty, a book or two that they are expected to master before entering their new grade in the fall. For adults, on the other hand, summer reading typically describes the books tossed into the carry-on, the fun titles you read for pure pleasure, even escapism, on a beach if you’re lucky. Clearly, one of the perks of adulthood is reaching an age at which nobody is forcing you to read anything. And yet, we’ve noticed that people still like to receive some direction: if not a mandatory reading list, at least a bit of a road map. So here is ours, divided among fiction, nonfiction, mystery/thriller, and romance. The books within each category are arranged by publication date, so that the moment you finish your summer equinox hammock read you can turn to a new set of recommendations for the big Independence Day beach read. (Anyway, we hope someone around here is having that sort of a summer.) Enjoy whatever freedom you can find this summer, and we hope you spend some of it enjoying a book or several.
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Contributor bios
Carole V. Bell is a Jamaican-born critic, educator, and researcher exploring media, culture, and politics.
Hamilton Cain is a Brooklyn-based book critic and author of a memoir, “This Boy’s Faith: Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing.”
Daneet Steffens is a book critic and journalist, and a longtime contributor to The Boston Globe.
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Kate Tuttle is a past president of the National Book Critics Circle and edits the Globe’s books coverage.
Chris Vognar is TV/pop culture critic of The Boston Globe
Marion Winik is the author of “First Comes Love” and “The Big Book of the Dead”; she hosts “The Weekly Reader” podcast on NPR.
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