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Books to break out this summer

July 7, 2026

  • Company + Culture
Summer reading list

Summer is a great time to pick up a book — with PTO and Summer Fridays, you might finally have a pocket of time to read. Here are our team’s recommendations fit for a variety of settings and moods, so you can curate your reading experience.

  • Matched, Crossed, and Reached by Ally Condie
  • Game Changers: The Heated Rivalry Series by Rachel Reid
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
  • Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
  • Kris Jenner… and All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
  • Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
  • Grape Juice by Eliza Dumais
  • Holiday Country by Inci Atrek
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation, and Happy Place by Emily Henry
  • Paper Girls comic series by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
  • The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  • The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr
  • The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  • Fame Sick by Lena Dunham
  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  • WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives by Duncan Harris and Ian Anderson
  • Get Your Shit Together by David Shrigley 
  • Florida! by A24
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  • The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan
  • Acid for the Children by Flea
  • Kris Jenner… and All Things Kardashian by Kris Jenner
  • Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib 
  • Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl
  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • Tuesday’s with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Letters from Gaza by Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer
  • The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
  • Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown, narrated by Tim Gerard Reynolds
  • Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan
  • Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
  • City of Thieves by David Benioff
  • Yearbook by Seth Rogen
  • The Stand by Stephen King
  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
  • The Wishbone Kitchen Cookbook by Meredith Hayden
  • The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
  • Anything by Ross Gay
  • The God of the Woods by Maya Hawke
  • The Wager by David Grann
  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
  • The Score by Elle Kennedy
  • Survivor Type” (short story) by Stephen King
     

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