THE BEST BOOKS TO READ THIS SUMMER
Evil Eye’ by Etaf Rum
Read With Jenna author Etaf Rum’s newest novel follows three generations of Palestinian American women and was inspired by the idea of a curse.
‘Spare’ by Prince Harry
Prince Harry’s anticipated memoir is billed as being an “honest and captivated personal portrait” of a person the public has seen grown up but is only recently getting to know on an intimate level. Poised to tell his story «At last,” the memoir is expected to cover the death of his mother, Diana, and why he left royal life behind with his wife Meghan Markle.
‘Hell Bent’ by Leigh Bardugo
The second installment in her Alex Stern series, “Hell Bent” returns to a magic-infused Yale University campus, where secret societies cast magic and unleash monsters. Alex Stern was brought from California to the cloistered Ivy League school to keep a watchful eye on them. And in book two, she has to venture to hell to rescue her partner.
‘Love, Pamela’ by Pamela Anderson
After a life in the headlines, you might think you know Pamela Anderson. In this revealing memoir, Anderson describes what it was like to be in her shoes during her ascent to fame and scrutiny, and how she found herself.
‘I Have Some Questions for You’ by Rebecca Makkai
Imagine if your life was the stuff of a true crime documentary. Bodie Kane has tried to move on past the 1995 murder of her boarding school roommate. When she returns to the boarding school as an adult, Bodie realizes there are still lingering mysteries about how the case was wrapped up and justice was served.
‘Black Candle Woman’ by Diana Marie Brown
If you watched “True Blood” or “Practical Magic,” you’re sure to enjoy this family saga about a group of women with magic in their blood and secrets in their past. Augusta, the family matriarch, can’t speak due to aphasia, but her daughter, grand-daughters and great-granddaughter are living with the ramifications of a decision she made and the powers she passed onto them.
‘Meet Me at the Lake’ by Carley Fortune
Like Carley Fortune’s hit debut novel “Every Summer After”, “Meet Me at the Lake” is a lake-set romance. After an intense, 24-hour meeting a decade ago, Fern and Will meet up again in the lakeside town where she inherited her mother’s inn. Read a preview here.
