Top 3 Romance Books to Read This Summer

Hello bookworms! Alright, so we all know summer is coming up here very soon, so I decided to make a post about the top 3 must-read romance books that you all should at least read this summer or add to your TBR (To Be Read for anyone who doesn't know) List. I am currently in a book club that I just joined recently, and we're currently reading a summer read that will be the first item on the list. Let's hop into it!

1. Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.

Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.

This is the book my book club is currently reading for the month of June. I'm reading along with the audiobook, as that is one of the only ways I can read a book that I think would seem slow at the beginning. As of right now, I am enjoying the book, but I am still going to listen to the audiobook as well, as I am only on the second chapter of Every Summer After.

This book also won an award as Goodreads Choice Award. The book was one of the nominees for Readers' Favorite Romance in 2022 and was also a nominee for Readers' Favorite Debut Novel in 2022.

2. Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry is a book I have not read yet, but it is on my TBR List. I am hoping to read this book while I am on vacation in July in Missouri. I have over 3,000 books in my Kindle library right now (most of them are from Stuff Your Kindle events. I know... it's a lot!), but I have Book Lovers as one of the first books I will read while in the car going down to Missouri.

3. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer—they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

I read this book way back when I was in middle school, and I loved it. I haven't seen the TV show yet, as I'm afraid it won't live up to the hype I've heard about, and I probably won't ever get around to watching it, to be brutally honest (no hate please lol). But yeah, the book was amazing, and as a middle schooler, I gave the book 5 out of 5 stars. I may have to read this book again, though, as I'm almost 26 now, because my rating may change for the book as an adult.

I did only three books, BUT I will do more in the future! Don't worry! There's plenty more summers and more books that you can find online or on Goodreads lists if you have Goodreads. Please feel free to message me with any questions you may have, as always! And, as always, have a wonderful evening/morning! Much love!