{"id":4315,"date":"2026-07-05T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:06:56","slug":"ready-to-get-into-summer-reading-here-are-75-books-to-keep-you-reading-all-season-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4315","title":{"rendered":"Ready to get into summer reading? Here are 75 books to keep you reading all season long."},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span><span>D<\/span><\/span><span><span>epending on one\u2019s 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\u2019re lucky. Clearly, one of the perks of adulthood is reaching an age at which nobody is forcing you to read anything. And yet, we\u2019ve 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. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4313\">Early New England had its own robust musical style. Then a Boston composer helped suppress it.<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span><b>Contributor bios<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Carole V. Bell is a Jamaican-born critic, educator, and researcher exploring media, culture, and politics. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hamilton Cain is a Brooklyn-based book critic and author of a memoir, &#8220;This Boy\u2019s Faith: Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Daneet Steffens is a book critic and journalist, and a longtime contributor to The Boston Globe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4311\">\u2018Widow\u2019s Bay,\u2019 \u2018Half Man,\u2019 and more of the best TV of the year so far<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Kate Tuttle is a past president of the National Book Critics Circle and edits the Globe\u2019s books coverage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chris Vognar is TV\/pop culture critic of The Boston Globe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Marion Winik is the author of \u201cFirst Comes Love\u201d and \u201cThe Big Book of the Dead\u201d; she hosts \u201cThe Weekly Reader\u201d podcast on NPR.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4309\">A tradwife wakes up in 1855. What could go wrong?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our annual summer reading guide, just for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ready to get into summer reading? 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