Easy, Must-Read Books this Summer

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Summer is not only the perfect time for road trips and late-night shenanigans with friends. It's also the best time to relax and read a book or two. There’s nothing like heading down to a beautiful beach, lying down on a soft blanket, soaking up the warm sun, and reading a short and enticing summer book that transports you to another world. 2019 has brought in a lot of new material for you to get your hands on just in case you’ve run out of books to read. Whatever your favorite genre might be, here’s a list of summer short books you’ll fall in love with.

For the Mystery Lover

I’ll Never Tell by Catherine McKenzie is the short novel you want to get your hands on. The story focuses on five siblings who reunite after their parents’ sudden deaths in order to decide what to do with their family’s property. Before they can do that, they have to figure out what happened to their fellow camper Amanda, who was found bludgeoned to death in a rowboat. It has all the essential ingredients needed to make a thrilling mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end.  

For the Hopeless Romantic

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Whether you fell in love with the book or movie, Eat, Pray, Love, you’re sure to fall in love with Elizabeth Gilbert’s new novel, City of Girls. The book follows a 95-year old woman, Vivian, who finally shares her love story from the 1940s. Combining lust, scandal, and fun, all behind the beautiful backdrop of the 1940s, this is a book you won’t be able to put down.

For the Non-Fiction Fanatic

Written by Lisa Taddeo and praised by the author of Eat, Pray, Love as a nonfiction literary masterpiece, Three Women follows the lives of three vastly different women, who all live in the United States, over the course of eight years. One is a high school student from North Dakota, another an entrepreneur from the East Coast, and the last a housewife from Indiana. Taddeo unveils their lives and desires in an all-too-relatable and revealing way. The result? A story that touches the hearts of women across the country.