Summer Reading Picks: 2025

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Summer Reading Picks

Beach Read: Emily Henry

Heart Bones: Colleen Hoover

Anywhere Else: Kayla Hicks

All Last Summer: Stephanie J. Scott

Bella and the New Guy: Amy Sparling

This One Summer: Jillian Tamaki

The Island: Natasha Preston

Nerdelicious: Mary Frame

Wildflower: Alecia Whitaker

Juniper Isle: Ava Roberts

Twenty Eight and a Half Wishes: Denise Grover Swank

Secrets They Never Told: Kayla Hicks

Survive the Night: Riley Sager

Just Next Door: Sarah Everly

Things We Never Got: Lucy Score

Tennessee Wishes: Melissa Roos

We Are The Brennans: Tracy Lance

One Good Thing: Katherine Dyson

The Way I Used to Be: Amber Smith

Every Summer After: Carley Fortune

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