Category: To Be Read

Hi, all! Summer is officially here for me and I am out of school—thank Taylor! I’ve been reading lots, as I always do in the summer, but I thought I would make an official summer reading list of all the books I’ve been “saving up” to read over the summer, as well as an update whenever I read any of them. This way, you guys can follow along, maybe add a few of these to your own, or suggest more to me. Enjoy and hope you all read a lot over the summer!

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harrari
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Hi there! If you’re a reader, you are probably familiar with a To Be Read list or a TBR list. You may also know this little-known fact about TBR lists: they’re never-ending! That’s right, I swear a miracle would have to occur before my TBR list gets below 15 books. Most of the recommendations for my TBR come from TikTok or personal recs, but a few are ones I randomly saw on a friend’s bookshelf or the bookstore. Feel free to search for reviews or summaries for anything that looks interesting. I’ll update each time I read a book and can finally cross it off the list!

Top Picks Off #BookTok

1. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
2. Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan
3. People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry
4. Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi
5. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
6. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians by Rick Riordan (love the show = need to relive childhood)
8. Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J Maas (I read the first book = I need to continue)
9. A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole
10. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
11. Haunting/Hunting Adeline by H. D. Carlton (I’m fully ashamed of myself)
12. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
13. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
14. Powerless by Lauren Roberts
15. The Mindf*ck Series by S. T. Abby
16. The Devil’s Night Series by Penelope Douglas
17. Five Survive by Holly Jackson
18. Zodiac Academy by Caroline Peckman

Just Random Recs In No Particular Order

1. The Shadow Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
4. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
5. The Dreamers by Karen Thomas Walker
6. Wilder Girls by Rory Power
7. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
8. The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
9. These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
10. The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson
11. All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata
12. The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas
13. You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao
14. The Sooner You Know, The Better by Livi Redden
15. Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino
16. The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien
17. All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Should Be In My ‘Top Picks’ Because They’re On My Bookshelf

• One Step Too Far by Lisa Gardner
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville