30 Best Summer Reads
By Klarna
Best summer reads of 2023
A good book is essential during the summer period. School is out, you're on your annual leave heading abroad to warm beaches or just lounging in your favourite park and of course you have a book by your side. If you haven't found the perfect summer read yet, then take a look at our list of 30 perfect summer reads with everything from rom-coms and fantasy to thrillers and satires, there is something for everyone.
Top 30 must reads this summer
4 Rom-Com Books
Romantic comedy books are the epitome of perfect summer reads, they're light fun and flirty and easy to get through. We have of course included the spice rating, with 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ being the spiciest and 🌶️ being the tamest, note these books are appropriate for 18+.
1. The Love Hypothesis
Author: Ali Hazelwood
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. The Love Hypothesis is the perfect sexy, sassy, science-based rom-com with a side of fake dating.
2. Happy Place
Author: Emily Henry
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Two ex-fiancés, one pact, together on holiday, what could go wrong? This sizzling romance has everything from fake dating to witty and humorous dialogue and clever characters that you're sure to fall head over heels in love with.
3. It Happened One Summer
Author: Tessa Bailey
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With It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.
4. Icebreaker
Author: Hannah Grace
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This popular ice skater meets hockey player romance book; Icebreaker has taken the genre by storm and become something of a cultural phenomenon on TikTok, with real hockey players reading the spicy scenes and blushing - need we say more?
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4 Satire Books
If you love reading between the lines, and are a stickler for thought provoking art that is immensely entertaining, then you will enjoy delving into the world of satire!
1. Yellowface
Author: R.F.Kuang
Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn’t write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American. Kuang's satirical literary thriller Yellowface is chilling, hilarious and poignant.
2. The Daydreams
Author: Laura Hankin
Stars of a once-beloved teen show who face a pivotal reunion special thirteen years after their scandalous downfall, with long-buried secrets and the possibility of redemption hanging in the balance this will either be their last chance at redemption, or destroy them all for good.
3. An (Un)Romantic Comedy
Author: Phoebe MacLeod
The black sheep is coming home for her sister’s wedding, one week with the whole family under one roof, that are all in desperate need of her skills as a professional therapist. What could possibly go wrong?
4. Old Boys
Author: Nick Spalding
In Old Boys, Will Fairweather, who hasn't seen his rock-star dad in thirty years, finds himself back with the eccentric Red Fairweather when he needs a place to live. As Will navigates the challenges of his own declining life, he rediscovers the relationship with his dad who is determined to make amends and help him find his way again.
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