What’s your summer state of mind?
Whether you’re living the lush life of a hot girl summer à la Zara Larsson or you’re embracing summertime sadness through the end of August (literally) in the spirit of Noah Kahan, we’ve got book recommendations to match your energy.
Hot girl summer essentials:
Sunscreen (for that midnight sun), Y2K fashion, an iced matcha, fluorescent acrylics 💅🌴⛱️👙
Hot girl summer required reading:
Girl’s Girl by Sonia Feldman ☀️ The MASH Up by Laura Marie Meyers ☀️ Skin Contact by Elisa Faison ☀️ Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom☀️ Tattered Tides by Sarah A. Bailey ☀️ Nymph by Sofia Montrone ☀️ Phoebe Berman’s Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick ☀️ Girls Our Age by Phoebe Thompson ☀️ Teddy Bears Never Die by Yeeun Cho, translated by Sung Ryu ☀️ Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle ☀️ The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson ☀️ They All Fall in Love at the End by Haili Blassingame
Sad girl summer essentials:
Kleenex tissues (preferably with aloe vera), mental health walks through nature, a bed (optimal place for bed rotting), cognitive behavioral therapy 🥲🤧😭🌧️❤️🩹
Sad girl summer required reading:
Mercy Hill by Hannah Thurman 🤧 The Midnight Train by Matt Haig 🤧 Children of the Wild by Kevin Powers 🤧 John of John by Douglas Stuart 🤧 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout 🤧 The Book of Birds by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris 🤧 Sourland by Ariel Delgado Dixon 🤧 Whistler by Ann Patchett 🤧 Offseason by Avigayl Sharp 🤧 The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders 🤧 The Top of the World by Ethan Joella 🤧 Until Alison by Kate Russo
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