Favorite Books to Read This Summer

You know how we give the kids reading goals every summer? Local libraries have summer reading programs with goal charts and stickers, prizes and all kinds of good stuff. As parents we talk to the girls about how summer is such a wonderful opportunity to really get into good chapter books. We talk endlessly about how reading keeps their minds “working” and continue to learn all summer long. Well, don’t you think parents should have a summer reading program too!?! What would our reading chart look like? Maybe a Candy Land type board leading us to a wonderful bottle of Rosé? Ha!

Anyway – we polled some friends and family to see what page turners they are enjoying this summer. We are excited to share the list with you. Some of the recommendations are new – and some old. Please comment with your favorite summer reads as well! We are both reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.

Orhans’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Wonder by R.J Palacio

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

The Nix by Nathan Hill

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow

Look at You Now: How Keeping a Teenage Secret Changed My Life Forever by Liz Pryor

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandburg and Adam Grant

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Truly, Madly, Guilty by Liane Moriarty