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50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time

50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time, selected by the Literary Hub staff, published in any year other than this one.

A Children's Bible

A Children's Bible
ByLydia Millet

2020 • 162 Readers • 6h 3.7

After Delores

After Delores
BySarah Schulman

1988 • 10 Readers • 187 pages

A High Wind in Jamaica

A High Wind in Jamaica
ByRichard Hughes

1929 • 55 Readers • 192 pages 3.3

American Spy

American Spy
ByLauren Wilkinson

2019 • 113 Readers 3.6

A Room With a View

A Room With a View
ByE.M. Forster

1908 • 400 Readers 3.6

Binstead's Safari

Binstead's Safari
ByRachel Ingalls

1983 • 3 Readers • 224 pages 5

Bridget Jones's Diary

#1 of 6 in Bridget Jones

Bridget Jones's Diary
ByHelen Fielding

1970 • 474 Readers • 292 pages 3.5

Call Me by Your Name

#1 of 2 in Call Me By Your Name

Call Me by Your Name
ByAndré Aciman

2007 • 837 Readers • 256 pages 4

Cloud Atlas

Cloud Atlas
ByDavid Mitchell

2003 • 1,303 Readers • 509 pages 3.9

Crazy Rich Asians

#1 of 3 in Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians
ByKevin Kwan

2013 • 675 Readers • 450 pages 3.7

Dandelion Wine

#1 of 11 in Green Town

Dandelion Wine
ByRay Bradbury

1946 • 301 Readers • 239 pages 3.9

Giovanni's room

Giovanni's room
ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 342 Readers • 185 pages 4.4

Jaws

#1 of 3 in Jaws

Jaws
ByPeter Benchley

1974 • 262 Readers • 311 pages 3.6

Luster

Luster
ByRaven Leilani

2020 • 391 Readers • 203 pages 3.6

Montauk

Montauk
ByMax Frisch,Geoffrey Skelton(Translator)

1975 • 8 Readers • 140 pages 4

Mother's Milk

#4 of 4 in Patrick Melrose

Mother's Milk
ByEdward St. Aubyn

2005 • 25 Readers • 235 pages 3.8

Norwood

Norwood
ByCharles Portis

1966 • 26 Readers • 190 pages 3.8

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Outline of My Lover
ByDouglas A. Martin

2000 • 6 Readers

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1967 • 158 Readers • 186 pages 3.9

Rebecca

Rebecca
ByDaphne du Maurier

1938 • 1,419 Readers • 428 pages 4.1

Sag Harbor

Sag Harbor
ByColson Whitehead

2009 • 38 Readers • 288 pages 3.5

Sing, Unburied, Sing

4 Bois Sauvage

2017 • 417 Readers • 285 pages 4.1

Speedboat

Speedboat
ByRenata Adler

1976 • 73 Readers • 170 pages 3.5

Stay Up with Hugo Best

2019 • 15 Readers • 272 pages 2.5

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

2005 • 70 Readers • 208 pages 3.4

The Baron in the Trees

#2 of 3 in I nostri antenati

The Baron in the Trees
ByItalo Calvino,Archibald Colquhoun(Translator),+1 more

1957 • 151 Readers • 228 pages 4

The Beach

The Beach
ByAlex Garland

1996 • 219 Readers • 438 pages 3.9

The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty

2015 • 18 Readers • 224 pages 4.4

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

1998 • 79 Readers • 289 pages 3.2

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 4,337 Readers • 180 pages 3.7

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

1999 • 44 Readers • 594 pages 3.8

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

1940 • 311 Readers • 368 pages 3.7

The Hole

The Hole
ByHiroko Oyamada,David Boyd(Translator)

2013 • 137 Readers • 61 pages 3.3

The Keep

The Keep
ByJennifer Egan

2006 • 64 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

The Known World

The Known World
ByEdward P. Jones

2003 • 134 Readers • 388 pages 3.6

The Lover

#1 of 2 in The Lover

The Lover
ByMarguerite Duras

1984 • 156 Readers • 123 pages 3.6

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
ByHonorée Fanonne Jeffers

2021 • 198 Readers • 816 pages 4.5

The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac

2015 • 10 Readers • 400 pages 4

The Summer Book

The Summer Book
ByTove Jansson,Thomas Teal(Translator)

1972 • 193 Readers • 186 pages 3.9

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game

#1 of 5 in Ripley

1985 • 410 Readers • 906 pages 3.8

The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides
ByJeffrey Eugenides

1993 • 743 Readers • 249 pages 3.8

The Woman in the Dunes

The Woman in the Dunes
ByKōbō Abe,E. Dale Saunders(Translator)

234 Readers 3.6

Three Summers

Three Summers
ByMargarita Liberaki,Karen Van Dyck(Translator)

1946 • 10 Readers • 264 pages 4

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse
ByVirginia Woolf

1925 • 774 Readers • 326 pages 3.7

Two Serious Ladies

Two Serious Ladies
ByJane Bowles

1943 • 34 Readers • 174 pages 3

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano
ByMalcolm Lowry

1947 • 127 Readers • 363 pages 3.8

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls
ByJacqueline Susann

1966 • 3 Readers • 466 pages

Villa Triste

Villa Triste
ByPatrick Modiano

2016 • 4 Readers • 176 pages 3

Waiting to Exhale

#1 of 1 in Waiting To Exhale

Waiting to Exhale
ByTerry McMillan

1992 • 24 Readers • 481 pages 3.7

We Ride Upon Sticks

2020 • 153 Readers • 367 pages 3.9