Novels set over one long summer

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Three months off, and nobody is quite the same person by the end. Summer novels that live inside one season and never step outside it.

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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

    FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY !

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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

    A National Bestseller An NPR Book of the Year Semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus…

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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

    THE INSTANT BESTSELLER * An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington…

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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

    From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar…

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  • Tove Jansson 2000

    Why it's on the stack

    It leaves you thinking · one day, one summer

    It shares this with 1 more book on this stack

    Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close and directed by Charlie McDowell In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline…

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  • L. P. Hartley 1953

    Why it's on the stack

    Comforting, like coming home · unreliable narrator

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    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

    'I devoured THE SHAMPOO EFFECT . .

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