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• Malibu Rising

  a Novel

  Reid, Taylor Jenkins,

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  Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, the family drama that ensues will change their lives forever. Malibu: August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Guest

  a Novel

  Cline, Emma,

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  A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, Glamour, Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Slate, Time Out, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit, Bookreporter “Alex drained her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beach Read

  Henry, Emily,

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  A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. As featured in The New York Times Book Review ∙…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Every Summer After

  Fortune, Carley,

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  Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Call Me by Your Name

  Aciman, André

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  An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our Time. Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saltwater

  a Novel

  Hays, Katy, 1982-

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  In 1992, Sarah Lingate is found dead below the cliffs of Capri, Italy, leaving behind her three-year-old daughter, Helen. Despite suspicions that the old-money Lingates are involved, Sarah’s death is ruled an accident. And every year, the family…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Summer Book

  Jansson, Tove

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  In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Talented Mr. Ripley

  Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995,

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  An American classic and the inspiration for the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Crawdads Sing

  Owens, Delia,

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  NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sharp Objects

  a Novel

  Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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  Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Spectacular Things

  a Novel

  Dorey-Stein, Beck,

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  REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Two sisters examine what they owe each other and what they are willing to sacrifice to make their dreams come true in this “epic story” (Reese Witherspoon) from New York Times bestselling author Beck Dorey-Stein. What would…Read moreRead more of this annotation