Summer Reading 2026
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The Summer Reading List
CURATED READS · SUMMER 2026
01
Forty Love JANE COSTELLO
02
Lost Lambs MADELEINE CASH
A darkly funny literary novel about adrift young people in a culturally elite world. Sharp on privilege, loneliness, and the seductive danger of idealising other people.
03
The Names
A novel that unfolds across parallel lives depending on what a mother names her son at birth. A meditation on identity, motherhood, and the stories we cannot escape.
04
Into the Blue EMMA BRODIE
A nostalgic Hollywood romance following two people who meet young, lose each other, and reunite years later on a television set. Full of ambition, glamour, and unfinished feelings.
05
Strangers BELLE BURDEN
A memoir about the stunning collapse of a high-society marriage. The moment a woman realizes the man she built her life with has been living a double one entirely.
06
The Midnight Train MATT HAIG
A companion to The Midnight Library, following a man who boards a mysterious train where each stop is a memory or an alternate life.
07
Land MAGGIE O'FARRELL
Set in 1865 Ireland, a spellbinding story of a father and son mapping a landscape still scarred by tragedy. Exploring colonization, survival, and the slow work of rebuilding a life.
08
The Fine Art of Lying ALEXANDRA ANDREWS
A glossy Upper East Side psychological thriller in which a former art-history academic becomes entangled with Manhattan's collector class — and then a murder. A Reese's Book Club pick.
09
Big Little Truths LIANE MORIARTY
The long-awaited sequel to Big Little Lies. The women of Monterey return, now raising teenagers, still bound by old secrets. Out in August.
10
Whistler ANN PATCHETT
A chance encounter at the Metropolitan Museum reunites a woman with a former stepfather she hasn't seen in forty years prompting both to reckon with the small moments that shaped everything.
11
Kin TAYARI JONES
Two half-sisters raised in vastly different worlds are forced together by a family crisis in Atlanta. A powerful novel about blood, class, and the complexity of forgiveness.
12
The Things We Never Say ELIZABETH STROUT
An estranged family is drawn together for a summer at a Massachusetts coastal home. A quiet, devastating novel about the truths people withhold from the ones they love most.
13
Careless People SARAH WYNN-WILLIAMS
In this memoir, a former senior policy executive at Meta chronicles her years inside the company. An insider account of power, misinformation, and the gap between Silicon Valley's public face and its private decisions.
14
The First Time I Saw Him LAURA DAVE
The thriller sequel to The Last Thing He Told Me; a domestic suspense novel about marriage, buried secrets, and the unsettling gap between who we think we know and who we don't.
15
Yesteryear CARO CLAIRE BURKE
A lyrical, elegantly written novel about a woman who returns to the social world she left behind. Revisiting old friendships, queer romantic history, and the gap between the life she imagined and the one she built.