2024 Summer Reading Guide: Love Stories
The hero of summer reading! Every single year, the Love Stories category is far and away the most popular one on the whole Summer Reading Guide. And I’m right there with you.
The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
I love Katherine Center (her books have snagged Summer Reading Guide spots on multiple occasions) and I think this might be my new favorite of hers about a woman who gets hired to help rewrite a screenplay with her screenwriter idol. Will sparks fly? OF COURSE THEY WILL.
The Last Love Note by Emma Gry
I read this in 48 hours – it was so compelling and sweet, yet heartbreaking at the same time. Kate is trying to hold everything together for her young son, while suffering through devastating grief. She has a few people she can rely on including her mother, her best friend, and her boss, Hugh, but being a single working mom is no easy feat. When Hugh and Kate end up stranded on a work trip, Kate finally has the distance from her daily life to think about what is next for her, but finds herself in an impossible situation.
Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luan Yang
In this romantic graphic novel, Valentina has always loved Valentine’s Day – she was named after it, after all! And every year on Valentine’s Day, Valentina would bring joy to those around her, making corny cards and little gifts. But after starting high school, Saint Valentine (or his ghost), shows up and gives Valentina one year to find her true love or give up her heart (meaning she will never get hurt by love, but will also never experience love).
The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon
If I had to pick a single favorite book on this year’s Summer Reading Guide, it’d be this one, hands down. I haven’t been this absorbed by a book in ages – this historical romance about Butch Cassidy, one of America’s most notorious train/bank robbers in the Old West, was everything I didn’t know I needed. Do not miss the audiobook version which is just phenomenal. I might be working my way through Amy Harmon’s entire backlist this summer!
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