Summer Reading can be a lot of fun.  Time is more available and reading before a fan or air conditioner can be just the thing when the weather hits the upper 80s.  Many people plot and plan what they are going to read each summer.  Some have goals to read the classics, or catch-up on the best-sellers everyone told them about.  The choices are virtually limitless, but if you need guidance, the Internet has plenty of possibilities.  The website, www.bookriot.com, is designed for readers with daily articles and lists from how to waterproof your summer reads to how to blend your bookshelves when you get married.  This week they recommended 16 summer reading lists from around the web.

               

These possibilities move from the New York Time’s to The Chicago Tribune to Real Simple.  There are lists from the New York Public Library and the American Library Association; and lists for smaller readerships such as Melinda Emerson’s nonfiction recommendations from the Huffington Post to Bill Gates summer reading list.  There are celebrity reading lists, comedic reading recommendations and lists of YA books coming out in June.

               

One list is from Quartz, an online news outlet that crunched some of the major reading lists to provide readers with what are the most recommended books for the summer.  These are new books some already available and others scheduled for release throughout the summer months.  The most recommended book is “The Girls” by Emma Cline.  It is “the debut novel that the publishing world can’t stop talking about. “  Released on June 14th, it is the story of a lonely teenage girl in the late 1960’s who gets involved with a cult.  Publishers Weekly said, “This coming-of-age story about how the need to be validated can go very wrong hits that sweet spot of literary fiction that’s also compulsively readable.”

               

The second most recommended book is “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi.  The Huffington Post wrote that “in this ambitious debut, Gyasi maps out the wide-reaching aftermath, following two branches of a family tree – one daughter married to a British colonizer, the other, unbeknownst to her sister, sold into slavery in America – over the course of several generations.”

               

The third most recommended book is by Annie Proulx, the author of “Brokeback Mountain,” and “The Shipping News.”  “Barkskins”  follows two Frenchmen who travel to North America in the 17th century and their descendants through 300 years of history.

               

Other recommended books are: “Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty” by Ramona Ausubel, “Underground Airlines” by Ben H. Winters, “Modern Lovers” by Emma Straub, “How to Set a Fire and Why” by Jesse Ball, “Known and Strange Things” by Teju Cole and “Problems” by Jade Sharma.  Some of these books are not yet released.

               

And if you would rather read romance novels or science fiction, or history, or cookbooks, I am sure you can find a recommended list.