
29 of Your Favorite End-of-Summer Reads
This Riot Recommendation asking for your favorite end-of-summer read is sponsored by Graydon House Books, bringing you The Summer List.
Named a Best Book of Summer 2018 by PopSugar, Coastal Living, Family Circle, and The Globe & Mail
In the tradition of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters, The Summer List is a tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later—until the clues expose a breathtaking secret that just might shatter them once and for all.
The kids may be back in school and the Halloween candy may be tempting shoppers, but it’s not fall until the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun. So we asked you to come to the comments section and tell us what books we should use to close out our summer of reading. And here are your fellow readers’ picks for the best end-of-summer read! That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon Perennials by Mandy Berman Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Skios by Michael Frayn Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Chiggers by Hope Larson Light in August by William Faulkner Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Jaws by Peter Benchley Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Summer Sisters by Judy Blume The Vacationers by Emma Straub Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Red House by Mark Haddon Frog Music by Emma Donaghue We Were Liars by E. Lockhart The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Outline by Rachel Cusk The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashares The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki Trouble by Kate Christensen The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams On Blackberry Hill by Rachel Mann
The kids may be back in school and the Halloween candy may be tempting shoppers, but it’s not fall until the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun. So we asked you to come to the comments section and tell us what books we should use to close out our summer of reading. And here are your fellow readers’ picks for the best end-of-summer read! That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon Perennials by Mandy Berman Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Skios by Michael Frayn Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Chiggers by Hope Larson Light in August by William Faulkner Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Jaws by Peter Benchley Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury Summer Sisters by Judy Blume The Vacationers by Emma Straub Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Red House by Mark Haddon Frog Music by Emma Donaghue We Were Liars by E. Lockhart The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer Outline by Rachel Cusk The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Anne Brashares The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald This One Summer by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki Trouble by Kate Christensen The Summer Wives by Beatriz Williams On Blackberry Hill by Rachel Mann