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Top Summer Reads: 56 New and Favorite Titles Across the Fiction Genres
Summer 2020 arrives with the promise of hot days and even hotter reads, making it a perfect time to check out these essential titles compiled by the American Library Association (ALA) RUSA CODES Reading List Council Members. With recommendations across eight recognized genres, from new releases to tried-and-true favorites, there's something here for every reader.
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Literary Getaways: Escape with New Summer Fiction and Backlist Favorites
Summer is the perfect time to relax and retreat from the day-to-day worries with a great book. Members of the 2018–19 American Library Association (ALA) RUSA CODES Reading List Council offer suggestions in eight genres.
A Reading Checklist: Sizzling New Summer Fiction, plus Old Favorites
Summer reading isn’t just for children! Escape into a great book with these suggestions from members of the 2017–18 American Library Association (ALA) RUSA/CODES Reading List Council. There’s something for every reader in the eight genres the list recognizes—adrenaline, fantasy, horror, historical, mystery, romance, sf, and women’s fiction.
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Louisa the Poisoner
Readers seeking a delightfully immoral protagonist and gleeful vandalism of traditional tropes will savor this delicious tale.
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Murder as a Fine Art
Winner of the Reading List Award for Best Mystery, this expertly plotted page-turner is packed with tense action and diverting historical minutia. (LJ 12/12)
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Skyborn
Mercedes Lackey fans, steampunk aficionados, and even fantasy newcomers will find this combination of coming-of-age drama, a vivid magic/technology symbiosis, and high-stakes action hard to put down. (LJ 9/15/15)
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The Language of Flowers
While at times heartbreaking, the tone is ultimately hopeful, and readers will never look at a flower bouquet in the same way again. (LJ 6/1/11)
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The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
Georgian London comes alive in this fast-paced, witty spellbinder that features a locked-room mystery, a bit of romance, and the misadventures of a charmingly roguish dandy. A good bet for fans of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. (LJ 11/15/15)
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My Real Children
Readers of character-driven speculative fiction will appreciate the importance Walton places on personal moments of consequence as well as on those that change the wider world. (LJ 4/15/15)
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