**Summer Reading Recommendations**

As the weather warms up, many of us are looking for books to escape into during our free time. For me, summer is the perfect time to dive into light and fluffy contemporary novels that will leave me smiling long after I finish reading them. In this article, I'll be sharing my top summer reading recommendations, from adorable coming-of-age stories to books that capture the essence of a bygone era.

**"The System" by Sophie Kinsella**

This book is just so adorable! It's like flying through it - literally in a day - and it's the perfect summary of what I think of as "summer reads". Summer reads to me are light, fluffy books that make me smile and leave me feeling uplifted. And this one delivers on all those fronts. The story follows Sophie, a young girl who is determined to be a pop star, and her friend Dana, who joins her on a road trip to Florida for an audition. From the moment they set off, it's clear that these two girls are going to have some amazing adventures together.

As I read through the book, I found myself laughing out loud at Sophie's antics, feeling inspired by her determination to make her dreams a reality. And of course, there's the added bonus of getting to see what it's like to be part of a girl pop group in the 90s - something that was totally new and exciting for me as someone who grew up in the 80s but is now in my 20s.

**"Toothpaste Girl Place in the Nineties" by Casey West**

This book was a huge selling point for me, and I have to say, it did not disappoint. As someone who grew up in the 90s, I was immediately drawn in by the nostalgia factor - the music, the fashion, even the way that people communicated with each other (yes, dial-up internet was real!). But beyond the nostalgic value, this book is also a really sweet and engaging coming-of-age story.

The main character, Olivia, wins the lottery and her life is forever changed. Her coworker at the zoo doesn't know about her win, so he treats her like any other person - which of course makes things complicated when they start to develop feelings for each other. It's a classic tale of friendship and love, with just the right amount of humor and wit.

**"Fireworks" by Katy Kitano**

I recently read this book, and I have to say that it was a really enjoyable experience. As someone who's not usually into romance novels, I appreciated how this one focused more on the friendship between the two main characters, Dana and Olivia. The story follows their relationship as they travel together from California to Florida for an audition, with plenty of laughs, tears, and drama along the way.

What really stood out to me about this book was its focus on diversity - both in terms of the main characters' backgrounds and experiences, but also in terms of the people they meet and encounter on their journey. It's clear that the author is passionate about representation, and I appreciated how she wove these elements throughout the story.

**"The One to Be Lucky by Casey West"**

Okay, so this one might be a cheat - I haven't actually read it yet! But I'm planning to get to it soon, and I couldn't wait to share my excitement with you all. Casey West is an author who knows how to write the perfect cute contemporary novel - and "The One to Be Lucky" sounds like just the ticket.

From what I've heard, the story follows a girl who wins the lottery (because why not?) and her life is forever changed. But the twist is that she keeps it secret from her coworker at the zoo, so he continues to treat her like any other person - which of course leads to all sorts of complications when they start to develop feelings for each other.

**"We Are Lucky by Katy Kitano (not Casey West)**

And then there's "We Are Lucky" by (I think) Katy Kitano - not Casey West, I apologize for the mistake! This book sounds like a perfect summer read to me - who wouldn't want to be on a four-month sailing excursion from Oregon to Mexico? It's an adventure that will test the limits of the main character, Cassandra, as she navigates her parents' divorce and tries to keep it hidden from her younger brother.

I love how this book combines elements of coming-of-age drama with something truly unique - a long-distance sailing trip. And I have to say, the setting itself is just so appealing - who wouldn't want to spend their summer at sea?

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opinion so like I said every book I talked about this video is going to be contemporary I have done several of these videos before I just might be my third or fourth time doing it I don't even know link all my previous summaries videos down below cuz I've done so many of them I try to really focus on the books that have come out recently or that I have read recently so I try to repeat the same books every year because they can get you know the monotonous same thing over and over again so I try to keep it fresh every single years-long is intro ever let's get into my summer recommendations the first three I'm going to talk about I think are just quit essential summaries and I will recommend them every summer reads videos because I just think that they need to be read in the summertime and the first officer that's right author I'm going to say as I'm sure you can't guess I'm going to talk about for summer reads it is going to be Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen is perfect to read in the summertime she just writes the BG's reads if you want a good book to like read on a beach day and completion and have a good time look no further than Sarah Dessen to recommend two of her books for you for the summer time first when I see being along for the ride this one definitely one's for most beachy cover and this is probably her most beachy one that takes place kind of like near a beach and has like beach atmosphere suppose this is all about agreeing on and who gotta have some somnium so she stays up all night so she wanders her town a lot and she another boy that kind of also has insomnia start to go on these nighttime adventures together and they of course start getting to know each other and kind of fall in love and you can guess from their contemporaries pretty straightforward like something happens they fall in love this is but that doesn't mean all of the mini left either way this is one of my favorite Sarah Dessen books and this definitely it's just the perfect beachy read like conversant hands-down view to read otherwise I want to recommend to you is my favorite Sarah Dessen book ever and that is the truth about flora Percy what I did there this is all about a granade Macy who hacked her summer kind of planned out her boyfriend's going away at brain camp she's going to work as a librarian and then the summer kind of goes on her boyfriend breaks off with her she's not really feeling that like a lot of things that she's also dealing with her father passing away recently and she randomly gets another job as like a catering company and with that she made the whole slew of friends and she goes on these adventures and she learns more about herself and this is just a so so good this is not a be cheery like it doesn't take place at a beach town but it takes place during the summer and it is perfect for a summer read in my opinion so Sarah Dessen is the queen of summer contemporaries in my opinion I just love her book so the next book I want to talk about it since you've been gone by Morgan Matson Morgan math and it's also a great contemporary author and I like a lot of her books in the summertime as well but this one is for most summery one in my opinion look at the cover the copper is very summery nobody's running Emily Emily had the best friend Ange Sloane they are inseparable they've been together forever and then slow one day just disappears Lee's a better word but she does leave like kind of a list for Emily to do things that Emily would never do like apple picking at night skinny dipping and things like that so this book is all about Emily trying to do that list also trying to find for Sloane and just really encompassing their friendship and learning more about like their friendship and also how Emily is also kind of alone and of course you can do love interest and this is just all things summery and perfect and just so much fun this book is kind of big but it flies by because it's just so much fun in such a good time the next book I want to talk about is put on my new favorite summer wreath ever and then it's else approximately by Jen Bennett I just read this a few months ago and I loved it so much if you love you've got mail which I know a lot of people do me included this is a really good like kind of reimagine ation or kind of a retelling of that since I've loved you've got mail I've read quite a few kind of you've got mail retellings and none of them have ever really quite filled the gap for me but this is the closest one that kind of the whole plotline of you got mail that actually was like you've got mail this is not a running Bailey family is a really big film buff she's on this forum a lot that talks about films and she starts talking to this guy and Alex also unlike the kind of film form and they quickly fall in like with each other and Alex keeps telling Bailey to come come on to California come see him all other kind of stuff well actually family does come out to California not to see Alex she actually moves out there with her dad for the summer and her dad actually lives in the same town as Alex so family moves out there without selling out anything and she wants to scope him out and try to figure out who he is see if they really do have a real connection that's outside of the internet so she's trying to find um Alex meanwhile she gets a job as like a tourist Museum where she meets another boy Porter and he's a security guard there and they immediately start bickering and they maybe have feelings for each other and maybe start dating Bailey doesn't know is that Porter is actually Alex from the film form and he doesn't know who he's talking to is Bailey so it's the only thought you got male vibe that says it all right there on the jacket I'm not pulling for you so basically we have basically an doubts who are really meeting in real life and they don't even know it yet so this is just an adorable read and it takes place in a beachy town in California and it talks about surfing a lot and it's just I found it so adorable and so so cute the next one I would recommend to you is summer days and summer nights this is an anthology like a summer anthology this has 12 love stories vetted by Stephanie Perkins and as you can see and has a myriad of authors in it I will say I did not enjoy this one as much as the wintertime one called my true love gave to me but I would recommend you read this for the summertime because it does have some good short stories in here and not all of them are not all the more contemporary have some sci-fi in here you have a dystopian I think you have a fantasy you have a mixture of like summertime stories even if they're different genres so I did enjoyed this book I wouldn't say it was my favorite knowledge I've ever read but I still think it's a solid one at that and it's perfect for the summer time because the title alone and it is really filled with some awesome summer stories in it that have when diplomat Rishi by Sen young men on and I read this recently as well and loved it this is so adorable this is all about dental and reshape so Rishi and dimple are kind of almost like in a pre-arranged marriage where disel does not like the idea that at all she's really against it and her family is actually really wanting her to go to this um coding summer camp and she's very surprised as happening because they never really on board with that she goes decoding summer camp a little does she know that Rishi will also be there because Rishi is very different from Dipple where he really enjoys the idea of prearranged marriage Ryan says it's amazing and it's really true to his tradition so he also goes to the summer camp - kind of like wound imple and they meet it's not a very good first meeting look at the back cover for going to say just sowing coffee in the space but it's just so adorable from there this is such a great book as a diverse read it's a great summary because it does place it does take placements on was just downright adorable this book will give you all the smiles and all the heart flutters speaking of heart flutters I'm going to talk about the upside of unrequited by becky albertalli this follows molly was had unrequited crush her whole life she's narrowly you know taken a chance and just went up there for and this summer she's deciding to do so because her twin sister has fallen in love with her girlfriend and molly just decided to namche a go for it she wants to really have this one guy be her first kiss she starts working in a boutique and she starts maybe falling for her co-worker Reed who was not her type at all he wears tolkien shirts and gameofthrones shirts and he has red Pharisees and passes and he's not the guy that knowledge sophomore yes cuff doing obviously this book is just so adorable it's just this one you can fly through literally in a day it's just going to make you smile and it's the perfect summary to my opinion because summer reads to me are just light fluffy books and this one is that also with amazing diversity next step I have fireworks by Katy Kitano I think that's how you say it always have a long time this book I've just recently read this book I won't say I love judge I will say I enjoyed it and I would recommend you read it in the summertime if you're looking for a just acquit contemporary read I'm not going to say this is like top of my list of favorite contemporaries it's kind of maybe on the lower to middle half all about these two friends Dana and Olivia Olivia's dream is to be a pop star she's always Linnet so when the opportunity arises for them to travel to Florida for her to audition to be in this pop girl group called daisy chain dana con it just goes with her to have fun on the road trip but just be there for her to support her watch the auditions well actually dana and olivia both get picked to be in daisy chain whole book is about them like kind of learning how to be like in a girl pop group and my god and like training for and singing and dancing I should also mention this book tooth place in the nineties which was a huge selling point for me I him a nice big kid I grew up in the 90s I was born in the 80s but I grew up in the 90s I loved everything about the 90 so that was the one appeal I did like in this book was the fact that it had such nineties nostalgia it was like a superstar of like contemporaries but if you're just interested in being kind of a boy advanced girl band set in the 90s I would recommend this because it was interesting in that aspect like learning of how that all kind of came to be but I will say this is a perfect book to read in the summertime because you can read it quickly and will make you smile and also make you feel so nostalgic the last two books I'm going to recommend to you today are kind of cheating because I have a resin yet as I am planning to read them in the next few weeks so I will definitely read them but either way I want to talk about them because they definitely feel like summer books the first one of us being lucky and loved by Casey West I will say I will recommend this kind of even though I haven't read it because I have read a lot of other Casey West books and she just writes the foot essential cute contemporary book this is all about a girl that wins the lottery and her course or life changes and she actually has a coworker at the zoo that doesn't know she won the lottery so he's treating her like her normal self and of course they fall in love and it just seems like a perfect summer read because Casey West knows how to write some cute contemporary so I haven't read this I feel like I'm kind of cheating but I wanted to mention it because it's Key West's newest release and and often contemporary writer last when I want to recommend to you that I also have a wrench head its changes in latitude by Jim Malone this is all about a girl named Cassandra it's really really for my parents divorce and her mom makes her younger brother go on a four-month sailing excursion from like I think where they going they're going down from Oregon down to Mexico so it's all about them on a sailing excursion she's also trying to keep the fact of her parents divorce hidden from your younger brother but this screams summer to me because they're sailing nothing screens summer want to be isn't sailing on a boat it's just you're four months that's a that's a feat right there but it sounds really really cute and I am looking forward to reading it so hopefully I'll like it but I would recommend it because I mean it sounds summery doesn't it so there you have it those are my summer recommendations those are books I would recommend you read in the summer time I hope you learned about a few new book so if you didn't I apologize but I just want to recommend you some awesome summer books that I think are just perfect to read in the summer if you have any books that you love reading of the summer are or plan to read the summer please let me know in the comments down below if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up get subscribe and I will see you guys in the next one bye youhello everybody today I'm here to talk about summer reads summer has been here for a while and I know what it is it just video ever since winter I've been like I cannot wait to make my summaries video because I just love reading in the summertime so today I'm here to share with you my favorite summer reads or just books I would recommend you read in the summertime and by that I mean kind of beachy books now full disclaimer of a book I talk about in this video is going to be contemporary because I just read a ton of contemporary already and mostly read but I read it the most in spring and summer when it gets hotter outside I just kind of want to read something light something fresh so I'm doing the easy to fly through and then when it gets to be falling winter I kind of really go into like fantasy and other genres of that nature that's not to say I don't read those genres throughout the whole year but summertime it's really contemporary time in my opinion so like I said every book I talked about this video is going to be contemporary I have done several of these videos before I just might be my third or fourth time doing it I don't even know link all my previous summaries videos down below cuz I've done so many of them I try to really focus on the books that have come out recently or that I have read recently so I try to repeat the same books every year because they can get you know the monotonous same thing over and over again so I try to keep it fresh every single years-long is intro ever let's get into my summer recommendations the first three I'm going to talk about I think are just quit essential summaries and I will recommend them every summer reads videos because I just think that they need to be read in the summertime and the first officer that's right author I'm going to say as I'm sure you can't guess I'm going to talk about for summer reads it is going to be Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen is perfect to read in the summertime she just writes the BG's reads if you want a good book to like read on a beach day and completion and have a good time look no further than Sarah Dessen to recommend two of her books for you for the summer time first when I see being along for the ride this one definitely one's for most beachy cover and this is probably her most beachy one that takes place kind of like near a beach and has like beach atmosphere suppose this is all about agreeing on and who gotta have some somnium so she stays up all night so she wanders her town a lot and she another boy that kind of also has insomnia start to go on these nighttime adventures together and they of course start getting to know each other and kind of fall in love and you can guess from their contemporaries pretty straightforward like something happens they fall in love this is but that doesn't mean all of the mini left either way this is one of my favorite Sarah Dessen books and this definitely it's just the perfect beachy read like conversant hands-down view to read otherwise I want to recommend to you is my favorite Sarah Dessen book ever and that is the truth about flora Percy what I did there this is all about a granade Macy who hacked her summer kind of planned out her boyfriend's going away at brain camp she's going to work as a librarian and then the summer kind of goes on her boyfriend breaks off with her she's not really feeling that like a lot of things that she's also dealing with her father passing away recently and she randomly gets another job as like a catering company and with that she made the whole slew of friends and she goes on these adventures and she learns more about herself and this is just a so so good this is not a be cheery like it doesn't take place at a beach town but it takes place during the summer and it is perfect for a summer read in my opinion so Sarah Dessen is the queen of summer contemporaries in my opinion I just love her book so the next book I want to talk about it since you've been gone by Morgan Matson Morgan math and it's also a great contemporary author and I like a lot of her books in the summertime as well but this one is for most summery one in my opinion look at the cover the copper is very summery nobody's running Emily Emily had the best friend Ange Sloane they are inseparable they've been together forever and then slow one day just disappears Lee's a better word but she does leave like kind of a list for Emily to do things that Emily would never do like apple picking at night skinny dipping and things like that so this book is all about Emily trying to do that list also trying to find for Sloane and just really encompassing their friendship and learning more about like their friendship and also how Emily is also kind of alone and of course you can do love interest and this is just all things summery and perfect and just so much fun this book is kind of big but it flies by because it's just so much fun in such a good time the next book I want to talk about is put on my new favorite summer wreath ever and then it's else approximately by Jen Bennett I just read this a few months ago and I loved it so much if you love you've got mail which I know a lot of people do me included this is a really good like kind of reimagine ation or kind of a retelling of that since I've loved you've got mail I've read quite a few kind of you've got mail retellings and none of them have ever really quite filled the gap for me but this is the closest one that kind of the whole plotline of you got mail that actually was like you've got mail this is not a running Bailey family is a really big film buff she's on this forum a lot that talks about films and she starts talking to this guy and Alex also unlike the kind of film form and they quickly fall in like with each other and Alex keeps telling Bailey to come come on to California come see him all other kind of stuff well actually family does come out to California not to see Alex she actually moves out there with her dad for the summer and her dad actually lives in the same town as Alex so family moves out there without selling out anything and she wants to scope him out and try to figure out who he is see if they really do have a real connection that's outside of the internet so she's trying to find um Alex meanwhile she gets a job as like a tourist Museum where she meets another boy Porter and he's a security guard there and they immediately start bickering and they maybe have feelings for each other and maybe start dating Bailey doesn't know is that Porter is actually Alex from the film form and he doesn't know who he's talking to is Bailey so it's the only thought you got male vibe that says it all right there on the jacket I'm not pulling for you so basically we have basically an doubts who are really meeting in real life and they don't even know it yet so this is just an adorable read and it takes place in a beachy town in California and it talks about surfing a lot and it's just I found it so adorable and so so cute the next one I would recommend to you is summer days and summer nights this is an anthology like a summer anthology this has 12 love stories vetted by Stephanie Perkins and as you can see and has a myriad of authors in it I will say I did not enjoy this one as much as the wintertime one called my true love gave to me but I would recommend you read this for the summertime because it does have some good short stories in here and not all of them are not all the more contemporary have some sci-fi in here you have a dystopian I think you have a fantasy you have a mixture of like summertime stories even if they're different genres so I did enjoyed this book I wouldn't say it was my favorite knowledge I've ever read but I still think it's a solid one at that and it's perfect for the summer time because the title alone and it is really filled with some awesome summer stories in it that have when diplomat Rishi by Sen young men on and I read this recently as well and loved it this is so adorable this is all about dental and reshape so Rishi and dimple are kind of almost like in a pre-arranged marriage where disel does not like the idea that at all she's really against it and her family is actually really wanting her to go to this um coding summer camp and she's very surprised as happening because they never really on board with that she goes decoding summer camp a little does she know that Rishi will also be there because Rishi is very different from Dipple where he really enjoys the idea of prearranged marriage Ryan says it's amazing and it's really true to his tradition so he also goes to the summer camp - kind of like wound imple and they meet it's not a very good first meeting look at the back cover for going to say just sowing coffee in the space but it's just so adorable from there this is such a great book as a diverse read it's a great summary because it does place it does take placements on was just downright adorable this book will give you all the smiles and all the heart flutters speaking of heart flutters I'm going to talk about the upside of unrequited by becky albertalli this follows molly was had unrequited crush her whole life she's narrowly you know taken a chance and just went up there for and this summer she's deciding to do so because her twin sister has fallen in love with her girlfriend and molly just decided to namche a go for it she wants to really have this one guy be her first kiss she starts working in a boutique and she starts maybe falling for her co-worker Reed who was not her type at all he wears tolkien shirts and gameofthrones shirts and he has red Pharisees and passes and he's not the guy that knowledge sophomore yes cuff doing obviously this book is just so adorable it's just this one you can fly through literally in a day it's just going to make you smile and it's the perfect summary to my opinion because summer reads to me are just light fluffy books and this one is that also with amazing diversity next step I have fireworks by Katy Kitano I think that's how you say it always have a long time this book I've just recently read this book I won't say I love judge I will say I enjoyed it and I would recommend you read it in the summertime if you're looking for a just acquit contemporary read I'm not going to say this is like top of my list of favorite contemporaries it's kind of maybe on the lower to middle half all about these two friends Dana and Olivia Olivia's dream is to be a pop star she's always Linnet so when the opportunity arises for them to travel to Florida for her to audition to be in this pop girl group called daisy chain dana con it just goes with her to have fun on the road trip but just be there for her to support her watch the auditions well actually dana and olivia both get picked to be in daisy chain whole book is about them like kind of learning how to be like in a girl pop group and my god and like training for and singing and dancing I should also mention this book tooth place in the nineties which was a huge selling point for me I him a nice big kid I grew up in the 90s I was born in the 80s but I grew up in the 90s I loved everything about the 90 so that was the one appeal I did like in this book was the fact that it had such nineties nostalgia it was like a superstar of like contemporaries but if you're just interested in being kind of a boy advanced girl band set in the 90s I would recommend this because it was interesting in that aspect like learning of how that all kind of came to be but I will say this is a perfect book to read in the summertime because you can read it quickly and will make you smile and also make you feel so nostalgic the last two books I'm going to recommend to you today are kind of cheating because I have a resin yet as I am planning to read them in the next few weeks so I will definitely read them but either way I want to talk about them because they definitely feel like summer books the first one of us being lucky and loved by Casey West I will say I will recommend this kind of even though I haven't read it because I have read a lot of other Casey West books and she just writes the foot essential cute contemporary book this is all about a girl that wins the lottery and her course or life changes and she actually has a coworker at the zoo that doesn't know she won the lottery so he's treating her like her normal self and of course they fall in love and it just seems like a perfect summer read because Casey West knows how to write some cute contemporary so I haven't read this I feel like I'm kind of cheating but I wanted to mention it because it's Key West's newest release and and often contemporary writer last when I want to recommend to you that I also have a wrench head its changes in latitude by Jim Malone this is all about a girl named Cassandra it's really really for my parents divorce and her mom makes her younger brother go on a four-month sailing excursion from like I think where they going they're going down from Oregon down to Mexico so it's all about them on a sailing excursion she's also trying to keep the fact of her parents divorce hidden from your younger brother but this screams summer to me because they're sailing nothing screens summer want to be isn't sailing on a boat it's just you're four months that's a that's a feat right there but it sounds really really cute and I am looking forward to reading it so hopefully I'll like it but I would recommend it because I mean it sounds summery doesn't it so there you have it those are my summer recommendations those are books I would recommend you read in the summer time I hope you learned about a few new book so if you didn't I apologize but I just want to recommend you some awesome summer books that I think are just perfect to read in the summer if you have any books that you love reading of the summer are or plan to read the summer please let me know in the comments down below if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up get subscribe and I will see you guys in the next one bye you\n"