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Summer Books

Description: Books that for some reason associate with a summer mood, feeling or mindset.

Rank Title Author Added

1

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster

11,227 members

224 reviews

3.9

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, Dilara86, alex68, ahef1963

2

by Sylvia Plath

28,268 members

505 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

9,231 members

179 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Dilara86, ahef1963

4

by Ray Bradbury

7,576 members

191 reviews

4

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, souloftherose, ManWithAnAgenda

5

26,604 members

629 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

6

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

23,716 members

390 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

7

by Stephen King

11,038 members

149 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Different Seasons

by Stephen King

8,983 members

122 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

9

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

8,959 members

190 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

10

To Say Nothing of the Dog

by Connie Willis

6,772 members

287 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

11

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

6,249 members

199 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, alex68, ahef1963

12

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

by Jeanne Birdsall

5,582 members

194 reviews

4.1

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, souloftherose

13

The Summer Book

by Tove Jansson

3,011 members

133 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, Dilara86

14

by Edith Wharton

2,154 members

74 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, alex68

15

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,928 members

1,434 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

Water for Elephants

28,966 members

1,184 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

17

by Gillian Flynn

22,283 members

1,547 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

18

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

19,941 members

178 reviews

4

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

19

To the Lighthouse

by Virginia Woolf

17,720 members

271 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alex68, ManWithAnAgenda

20

7,289 members

443 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

21

by Kristin Hannah

4,859 members

327 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

22

4,232 members

88 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

23

by Kristin Hannah

2,138 members

66 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

24

by David Baldacci

1,531 members

50 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

25

The Greengage Summer

by Rumer Godden

740 members

17 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, souloftherose

26

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,491 members

478 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

27

The Old Man and the Sea

by Ernest Hemingway

30,871 members

508 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

28

Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

23,363 members

323 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

29

by Stephen King

22,086 members

411 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

30

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,968 members

611 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

31

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

14,303 members

268 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

32

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,993 members

184 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

33

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

by Ann Brashares

11,050 members

255 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

34

Eleanor and Park

by Rainbow Rowell

9,130 members

640 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

35

The Forgotten Garden

7,930 members

447 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

36

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

by Jerome K. Jerome

7,723 members

290 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

37

Over Sea, Under Stone

by Susan Cooper

6,613 members

139 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

by John Banville

5,443 members

174 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

39

Our Man in Havana

by Graham Greene

5,384 members

140 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

40

by Jennifer Weiner

4,906 members

83 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

41

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

by David Foster Wallace

4,841 members

73 reviews

4.1

Member: alex68

42

Call Me by Your Name

by André Aciman

4,357 members

152 reviews

4

Member: alex68

43

by Peter Benchley

4,053 members

148 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

44

Along for the Ride

by Sarah Dessen

3,834 members

158 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

45

The Sea, the Sea

by Iris Murdoch

3,588 members

95 reviews

3.9

Member: alex68

46

The Summer I Turned Pretty

3,481 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

47

Bonjour Tristesse

by Françoise Sagan

3,371 members

110 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

48

by Michel Houellebecq

2,844 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

49

by Penelope Fitzgerald

2,825 members

148 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

50

by Niccolò Ammaniti

2,304 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

51

The Emperor of Ocean Park

by Stephen L. Carter

2,285 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

52

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

1,974 members

147 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

53

by Alessandro Baricco

1,677 members

32 reviews

4

Member: alex68

54

The Vacationers

1,448 members

107 reviews

3.2

Member: alex68

55

by J. Courtney Sullivan

1,410 members

87 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: alex68

56

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

by Peter Cameron

1,202 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

57

by Colson Whitehead

1,095 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: alex68

58

by Leila Meacham

1,036 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

59

The Secret Country

897 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

Arturo's Island

by Elsa Morante

789 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

61

The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

by John Bellairs

742 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

Armageddon Summer

689 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Key to the Treasure

by Peggy Parish

674 members

8 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

64

by Julio Cortázar

582 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: alex68

65

Wild Strawberries

by Angela Thirkell

533 members

25 reviews

3.8

Member: merrystar

66

by Alberto Moravia

467 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: alex68

67

The Night of the Moonbow

by Thomas Tryon

321 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Angela Thirkell

305 members

9 reviews

4

Member: merrystar

69

The Florios of Sicily

by Stefania Auci

181 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: alex68

70

by Mary Rodgers

125 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

by Margaret Mazzantini

118 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: alex68

72

by Vitaliano Brancati

71 members

3 reviews

3.1

Member: alex68

73

Family Resemblances

35 members

1 review

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

74

Crime and Punishment [Norton Critical Edition, 3rd ed.]

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

1,167 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963,sturlington

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
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