This summer was a wonderful reading season for me. I kept up my 22 books per month pacing and ended up reading a ton of great books throughout June, July, and August.
I thought I would offer a round-up of my summer reading broken out by fiction and nonfiction in case you’re looking for some books to add to your reading pile.
First, here are the fiction books I read:
- Shadows Reel by C.J. Box
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang
- Always, in December by Emily Stone
- Underground Airlines by Ben Winters
- Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
- The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
- Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
- The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- The Change by Kirsten Miller
- The Appeal by Janice Hallett
- Fallen Creed by Alex Kava
- Five Strangers by E.V. Adamson
- How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
- How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
- Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune
- One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
- The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan
- Taken by Dee Henderson
- The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
- The Secret, Book, and Scone Society by Ellery Adams
- Unspoken by Dee Henderson
- Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
- The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
- This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
- The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
- Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
- Suspect by Robert Crais
- Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
- The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Replacement Wife by Darby Kane
- Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
- The Sign for Home by Blair Fell
- The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda
- Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer
- Hideout by Louisa Luna
- A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
- The Jigsaw Man by Nadine Matheson
- More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmermer
- Listen to Me by Tess Gerritsen
- Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
- Just Like You by Nick Hornby
- A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton
- What You Wish For by Katherine Center
- Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts
And here are the nonfiction books that I read:
- The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
- Remote: Office Not Required by David Hansson
- Get Rooted! by Stacy Henry
- Strategic Leadership of Change in Higher Education by Stephanie Marshall
- The Book of Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger
- The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Joy at Work by Marie Kondo
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
- Just Work by Kim Scott
- The Gap and the Gain by Benjamin Hardy
What books did you read over the summer?