Summer Book Recommendations for People Who Don’t Do Beach Reads ☀️

It is absolutely so strange and so creepy. And the environment itself is the most interesting thing about this book.

And it was stunning. It was so beautiful. Loved it.

This book still makes me feel emotional when I think about it, and it's been years since I read it.

And this book still whenever I think about this book, I'm still a little bit in awe of the journey it took me on. It's very experimental.

It is a searing and harrowing look at slavery in the American South family and legacy. It is physically and spiritually crushing but also manages to have a sense of hope and a future also. Absolutely beautiful pros.

Another character study that I love so much. Relentless Heat. the emotional tension and a sense of displacement and exhaustion from that constant heat and dampness of summer that never seems to end.

I just adore how this book explores our protagonist and her self-discovery, her exploration of who she is and what she wants and coming back to herself in a way. It is such a fascinating character study and that everpresent hot sticky city summer feeling is just on every page.

This is a debut novel and I absolutely adored it.

It feels permanently overgrown and interwined and sort of tangled in on itself in the best possible way. So good.

Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rights, both arguably equally wet. and I love them so much.

It is very much interested in exploring themes of colonization and both mistreatment of native peoples by the colonizing force but also the destruction of the environment in an attempt to impose order on the landscape and in some ways this is about nature fighting back against that human intervention and it is so strange and beautiful. I would highly recommend.

Impeccable. Very hard read, but so good.

So much of this book feels like waiting for a thunderstorm that never seems to actually break. The tension that just never goes away and it's fascinating.

Our Wives Under the Sea and Private Rights, both arguably equally wet. and I love them so much.

This is a book that manages to make very common or familiar human spaces feel completely unfamiliar and terrifying and out of place. and it's absolutely fascinating, but absolutely an amazing book that I don't get the opportunity to recommend enough.

And this book just broke me a little bit in the best way. Please read it.

In this reality TV show, the relentless heat is amplifying all of the conflict, every conflict between every contestant, every social interaction. The discomfort is so tangible and the thirst is extremely real in more ways than one.

Very much evokes that terror of climate change and the world building is so impeccably done and adds so much richness to the emotional journey that the characters go on. It also has absolutely fascinating magic and the themes are impeccable.

This was such an absolutely fascinating book. It has a really unusual structure to it, a bit of an unusual lens for the storytelling and is absolutely dripping with sadness and despair and longing for family.

This is definitely a very worldbuing magic and political minations forward type of fantasy trilogy which I think a lot of people really appreciate, but it also has a prominent sappic romance that I thought was incredibly well done, especially in the first book.

Kind of a similar idea of nature fighting back against human intervention. Both very much fit this lush, verdant, the landscape is alive sort of feeling.

And the way that it blends that setting with the slow build of sexual tension and desire between two of the characters was impeccably done. Cannot recommend enough.

It very much ties this summer setting, almost a summer vacation kind of feeling with the internal conflict of the characters. The relentless California heat really amplifies the uncanny feeling that you get from this story.

This book is very intimate and very much a psychological portrait of its two main characters and yet the setting is everpresent and almost looming over them. Everything is humid and lush and permanently damp and it feels like the absolute perfect setting for this particular story.