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. (Want more details? You can always hear me talk about books on my YouTube channel each month.)
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?