With school coming to an end, I’m looking forward to reading for pleasure again. I have a series of books I’ve been eagerly waiting to read and re-read. Here’s my definitive summer reading list!
- The hunger games trilogy
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With the film adaptation of The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes coming to screen in November, I’m revisiting the original trilogy. As a longtime fan of the book series and franchise (much thanks to author Suzanne Collins), it’ll be like reuniting with a longtime friend!
- Daisy Jones & the Six
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Love triangles and rock & roll? Sign me up, Taylor Jenkins Reid!
I have *yet* to watch the television adaptation of the book as I try to read before watching adaptations. Once I read this book and inevitably fall in love with it, I’ll be sure to catch the show! I’ve seen tons of fan edits and tweets about it, and the appeal is strong.
- Call Me BY Your Name
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Take a warm nostalgic trip to Italy this summer in André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name. I sense this will be the perfect summer read, as the tale of unrequited love set in a breathtakingly beautiful city beckons readers to “Sit in the gentle summer sun and read.”
- A Hundred Years of Solitude
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Set in the fictional Colombian city of Macondo, join author Gabriel García Márquez in his magical realism masterpiece that claimed the Pulitzer Prize, as it navigates the aftermath of colonialism through the cycle of violence, death, and tragedy one family faces for one hundred years.
This book has been recommended to me on more than one occasion, and it’s about time I read it. I’ve challenged myself to read more Hispanic and/or Latino written works to enrich myself in my culture and expand my reading palate.