My Summer Reading List
- Hogan Burleigh
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min read
Like any book lover, I have countless titles on my TBR list. But here are my top ten that I most definitely intend to read next during the rest of the summer.
I have a varied list since I’m trying to step out and read lots of books that I wouldn’t normally think to read!
“Anna hasn't a friend in the world - until she meets Marnie among the sand dunes. But Marnie isn't all she seems. This is an atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness.”
I watched the film adaptation a few years ago and fell in love with the setting, story, and characters—so I‘m really looking forward to the book!
2. Wonderland
“One mother's love may be all that stands between her family, an enigmatic presence--and madness.”
After reading this author’s debut novel Baby Teeth earlier in the year, I’m hoping her newest release will surprise me and show me this author’s writing in a fresh light.
“The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place―and realizing that family is yours.”
I’ve heard so many good things about this one!
“New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel,Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it?“
This one sounds like an intense page-turner! The time period itself has me intrigued—and add in anything related to Dracula and I’m in!
“A captivating world of monsters and magic from the Wall Street Journalbestselling author of The Paper Magician Series.”
I love just about anything Charlie N. Holmberg puts out. She has such a unique imagination and builds some beautiful, intriguing worlds!
“It takes more than a lie to hide the dark secrets of this picture-perfect family.”
This one definitely sounds like a twisty-turny psychological thriller—and I’ve been reading a lot of those lately in the hopes I find one that really has me on the edge of my seat! Maybe this one will be the one?
“After his mistreatment at the hands of his brother, William Crimsworth is relieved of his employment as a clergyman and offered a position at an all-boys boarding school in Belgium. Soon, word of his proficiency as a professor spread and he is offered a second position in a neighboring all-girls school. He accepts the offer and discovers that there is something special to one of the teachers named Frances…”
One of my favorite books ever is Brontë’s Jane Eyre, so I want to try out some of her other works too.
8. Rebecca
“...the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten.”
I’ve heard so many good things about Du Maurier. This gothic story sounds chilling!
“A crumbling monument to a gruesome history, the mansion has been abandoned by all but two elderly sisters retained as caretakers. They are also guardians of all its mysteries. As the house starts revealing its dark secrets, Tessa must face her fears and right the wrongs of her past to save herself and her relationship with Margot. But nothing and no one at Fallbrook are what they seem.”
Can you tell I’m really trying to find some good thrillers? This one sounds nicely creepy, what with the derelict mansion and two mysterious elderly caretakers. Yes, please!
10. Furyborn
“Furyborn is an epic YA fantasy about two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.”
Angels, magic, a kingdom at stake—all of these sound like the perfect mixture for a majestic story! I actually have owned this book for a while and havent gotten to read it yet, so I’m dying to start it.
Are any of these titles on your own reading list? I can hardly wait to to them all!
Happy reading,
Hogan
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