Good Summer Reads?

[Canooknic]

Linwood Barclay for some thriller/mystery type stuff and I found Alannah Carbonneau on Kindle is good for romance (warning - there are sex scenes!)

 

[hoosll]

Just finished Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo - wonderful
also, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
read The Girl on the Train before movie comes out

 

[hoosll]

Linwood Barclay for some thriller/mystery type stuff and I found Alannah Carbonneau on Kindle is good for romance (warning - there are sex scenes!)

Barclay is super!

 

[KBoopaloo]

Some of my favorite lighter/quicker reads:

Where'd You Go, Bernadette?

The Rosie Project

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

Maine

American Wife

Colony

Prep

 

[ddiva]

Wow, you guys are awesome! I will definitely be checking into several of your suggestions. Thanks so much!

 

[HM]

That was the first one I read as well, and I thought the same thing. But then I read The Distant Hours, and didn't like that one as well. (I'll probably try another this summer to decide which of those was actually the exception.)

I haven't read Distant Hours, just bought The Lake House, but I've read The Forgotten Garden, The House at Riverton, and The Secret Keeper. All were very good...The Forgotten Garden was my first of her books and still my favorite.

 

[Bren's Mom]

I definitely concur with Me Before You, Nightingale, Storyteller.

I'll add The Help by Kathryn Stockett, Winter Garden/Night Road/Magic Hour/Home Front by Kristin Hannah (ok, most anything by Kristin Hannah LOL), anything by Jodi Picoult (though I'll say I didn't care of Leaving Time), The Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony, The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd, The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty, The Wedding Gift by Marlen Suyapa Bodden, Carry Her Heart by Holly Jacobs, Pretending to Dance/The Shadow Wife/several others by Diane Chamberlain, The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom.