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Refinery29's 38 Books You’ll Want To Read This Summer

Ease your toes in the sand with your favorite cold drink and take a break from reality with love, humor, mystery, and a little scandal with these 38 books as gathered by Refinery29's Kristin Iversen.

Afterparties : Stories

Afterparties : Stories
ByAnthony Veasna So

2021 • 99 Readers • 256 pages 4

After the Sun

After the Sun
ByJonas Eika,Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg(Translator)

2018 • 8 Readers • 158 pages 1

Agatha of Little Neon

Agatha of Little Neon
ByClaire Luchette

2021 • 16 Readers • 273 pages 3.3

All's Well

All's Well
ByMona Awad

2021 • 269 Readers • 368 pages 3.8

Animal

Animal
ByLisa Taddeo

2021 • 158 Readers • 401 pages 3.4

A Touch of Jen

A Touch of Jen
ByBeth Morgan

93 Readers 2.8

Bewilderness

Bewilderness
ByKaren Tucker

2021 • 9 Readers • 288 pages 3

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

2021 • 538 Readers • 272 pages 3.9

Double Blind

Double Blind
ByEdward St. Aubyn

2021 • 14 Readers • 224 pages 3.4

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

2018 • 78 Readers • 275 pages 3.6

Filthy Animals

Filthy Animals
ByBrandon Taylor

2021 • 73 Readers • 259 pages 3.7

Future Feeling

Future Feeling
ByJoss Lake

2021 • 35 Readers • 294 pages 3.6

Ghost Forest

Ghost Forest
ByPik-Shuen Fung

2021 • 35 Readers • 257 pages 4.1

God Spare the Girls

God Spare the Girls
ByKelsey McKinney

2021 • 36 Readers • 320 pages 3.7

Intimacies

Intimacies
ByKatie Kitamura

2022 • 85 Readers • 240 pages 4.1

Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor

2021 • 12 Readers • 224 pages 3

Objects of Desire: Stories

Objects of Desire: Stories
ByClare Sestanovich

2021 • 8 Readers • 224 pages 4

Palace of the Drowned

Palace of the Drowned
ByChristine Mangan

2021 • 9 Readers • 320 pages

Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost

2021 • 3 Readers • 256 pages

Prepare Her

Prepare Her
ByGenevieve Plunkett

2021 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

Radiant Fugitives

Radiant Fugitives
ByNawaaz Ahmed

2021 • 22 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

Savage Tongues

Savage Tongues
ByAzareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

2021 • 5 Readers • 288 pages 4

Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir

2021 • 30 Readers • 368 pages 4

Seek You

Seek You
ByKristen Radtke

2021 • 81 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

Somebody's Daughter

Somebody's Daughter
ByAshley C. Ford

2021 • 177 Readers • 9 pages 4.1

Something New Under the Sun

Something New Under the Sun
ByAlexandra Kleeman

2021 • 39 Readers • 302 pages 3.6

Thanks for Waiting

Thanks for Waiting
ByDoree Shafrir

2021 • 10 Readers • 304 pages 3.3

The Collection Plate: Poems

2021 • 1 Reader • 96 pages

The Great Mistake

The Great Mistake
ByJonathan Lee

2021 • 9 Readers • 305 pages

The Manningtree Witches

The Manningtree Witches
ByA.K. Blakemore

2021 • 74 Readers • 321 pages 3

The Other Black Girl

The Other Black Girl
ByZakiya Dalila Harris

2021 • 259 Readers 3.4

The Silence of the Girls

#1 of 3 in Women of Troy

2018 • 335 Readers • 327 pages 3.8

The Turnout

The Turnout
ByMegan Abbott

2021 • 48 Readers • 352 pages 2.9

The Woman in the Purple Skirt

The Woman in the Purple Skirt
ByNatsuko Imamura,Lucy North(Translator)

2019 • 85 Readers • 222 pages 3.4

Virtue

Virtue
ByHermione Hoby

2021 • 6 Readers • 320 pages 4

What Is a Dog?: A Memoir

2021 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

With Teeth

With Teeth
ByKristen Arnett

51 Readers 3.3