These Feel Like a Summer Fling

Whether our summer plans include holidays or not, we all need to get away a little. Whether it’s the moment it’s stolen in your backyard or just a few minutes before bedtime, getting lost in the plot is a great way to do it. Yes, ROM-COM has power, but I argue that the best summer books are the most powerful way to warm weather months.

Whether you’re looking for quirky accidents, sultry second chances, historical dramas, modern romances, here’s the best summer books that will guide your mind the way. At least these promise to be fun while they continue.

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10 books that feel like a summer escape

Transit By Lacie Waldon

Vacations are not used to the unlikely romance. It’s only a matter of time before the side eye turns into a stolen gaze when flight attendant Ava is left behind in Belize as a rival pilot. If you crave Caribbean sunshine and are perfect considering career changes, this is the story of a loved one from the enemy who feels like everything is too pie and what happens after an honest self-reflection that trusts the heart.

It happened one summer Tessa Bailey

Hollywood IT Girl meets a skeptical and hardworking sea captain. (Imagine Luke Daines traded the East Coast for PNW.) That is the premise of this fish story, documenting this water story. To learn some responsibility after being exiled to Washington’s small beach town, she meets local Brendan, and is the opposite attractive?

atmosphere Taylor Jenkins Lead

TJR fans need little to notice this, but her latest novel has just been released, and this time she has taken readers to the 1980s NASA starry sky. Following Joan Goodwin, a professor of astrophysics training, she develops an unexpected romance with fellow candidate Vanessa Ford to become one of the first female astronauts. It unfolds within a world of space exploration and glass ceiling high stakes, challenging Jaune to harmonize the desires and ambitions of her heart.

Nora erases the script By Annabel Monaghan

When screenwriter Nora’s life takes an unexpected turn, her divorce memoir is picked up on the big screen along with an A-list actor who was cast as her ex-husband. But as their relationship unfolds, Nora learns that even a second chance can succumb to the film’s magic. part Notting Hill Mixed a little Beach Leadthis is resourceful, warm and full of small town charm.

The summer when I met Jack By Michel Gable

Inspired by a true event, The summer when I met Jack It will be held in New England in the 1950s following the rumoured engagement of young Senator John F. Kennedy to young Polish refugees and ultimately socialite Alicia Corning Clark. For a family where image is everything, marriage was never something to do, but it was broken by the glittering array of secrets that followed. This is a story of events that don’t go quietly at night.

rival Jilly Cooper

Certainly, I’m late for the Gilly Cooper match, but after seeing Hulu adaptation starring David Tennant and Aiden Turner, my Angophile is now fully invested. rival The first in the sassy, ​​gorgeous, 1980s wealthy series (essentially) behaves badly. The relationship and charm are safe while television tycoon Rupert Campbell Black and his rivals fight for control of a new TV station. This book is about high hair, high heels and all the escapes.

Riverton House By Kate Morton

For an etheric escape rather than crossing the pond, Riverton House It offers a summer page turner that feels good, but is obsessed with. Jumping time between 1999 and the 1920s, the story became a film, centering on summer parties and mysterious and tragic events that took place decades later. As the only living witness of that night’s event, the then-The-Maid, Grace, revisits her past along with her secrets and lost love. If you haven’t read Morton’s book yet, start now.

Neighbor’s favor By Christina Forest

There’s a lot of love on the page, Neighbor’s favor Following Lily, the shy book editor, as she deals with her favorite fantasy writer. Her charming neighbor is standing up for the job of helping her, just as life and luck has it, but he may not be the person he says. For fans of “I didn’t realize you were my penpal,” you will love the slow burns of this and cheer for the release.

A problematic summer romance By Ali Hazelwood

The title alone probably knows where this is headed. Maya Kilgore, 23, meets Sicily’s charmingly complicated (and older) Conor Harkness, both attending the Mayan brothers’ wedding. It’s sw lol and hot, filled with witty jokes, layered with gorgeous Italian accounts There is not at all Age gap tropes you might expect. Come for the scenery and stay for transformative vulnerabilities.

Blue Bistro By Elin Hilderbrand

Adrian arrives in Nantucket in the summer and, surprisingly, does an enviable job at the famous Blue Bistro restaurant. But despite it being an impeccable commitment to tasty food and hospitality, we soon learn that there is more to this place and its charming owner, mystical chef than she first notices. Especially if you’re working in the food industry (or just love watching) Bear), I appreciate the heat of this.