An assortment of 6 adult paperback novels for easy summer reading

1. The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel by Mikki Brammer

A big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and The Midnight Library.

2. The Memory of Animals by Claire Fuller

The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness, that asks what truly defines usâۥand the lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love.

3. The Girls of Summer: A Novel by Katie Bishop

Joining a post #MeToo discourse, The Girls of Summer grapples with themes of power, sex, and consent, as it explores the complicated nature of memory and trauma––and what it takes to reframe, and reclaim, your own story.

4. My What If Year: A Memoir by Alisha Fernandez Miranda

For anyone who’s ever felt stuck in a rut, My What If Year proves that it’s never too late to say yes to second chances and explore the roads untraveled throughout your life.

5. The Woman Inside: A Novel by M. T. Edvardsson

A wealthy couple ends up murdered in the nicest part of town in this compulsively readable, page-turning thriller.

6. Bad Summer People: A Novel by Emma Rosenblum

Stylish, subversive, and darkly comedic, this is a story of what's lurking under the surface of picture-perfect lives in a place where everyone has something to hide.