The 8 books on this stack
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Emily Henry 2020
Why it's on the stack
It makes you laugh · it leaves you with a warm feeling
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
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Steven Rowley 2021
Why it's on the stack
Funny and sad at once · it makes you cry, in a good way
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant.
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Emma Cline 2016
Why it's on the stack
It stays with you · it stirs you up inside
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of…
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Colson Whitehead 2009
Why it's on the stack
It makes you laugh
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused.
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Tove Jansson 2000
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you thinking · a place nobody can leave
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the…
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L. P. Hartley 1953
Why it's on the stack
Comforting, like coming home · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall.
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Françoise Sagan 1954
Why it's on the stack
Funny and sad at once
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality.
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Jenny Jackson 2026
Why it's on the stack
Sharp and very funny · it raises the temperature
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
When writer Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, she falls immediately for its scenic beaches and New England charm - and even harder for Van Whittaker, a gorgeous, fleece-wearing, litter-collecting…