Summer might be winding down but there is still plenty of time for reading.  If you’re not sure what to read, why not check-out a book literary critics have deemed to be one of this summer’s best? The following books appear on several best of lists including NPR, Oprah Daily, and The New York Times. 

• Meet me at the Lake by Carly Fortune: A random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise to meet one year later. Life changing effects occur when Fern shows up and Will does not. But what happens when Will unexpectedly reappears in Fern’s life 9 years later?

• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: In the early 1960s, a chemist and single mother, the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show, uses this opportunity to dare women to change the status quo.

• Happy Place by Emily Henry: Despite breaking up earlier, a picture-perfect couple still haven’t told their friends about the split and attempt to pretend they are still together at an annual Maine getaway. How hard can it be to fake a romance for one week?

• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang: After the death of her literary rival, June, an author, steals her rival’s just-finished masterpiece and sends it to her agent, claiming it as her own. June discovers just how far she’ll go to keep what she thinks she deserves – literary success – when emerging evidence threatens her new found literary fame.    

• Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese: An epic story of love, faith, and medicine follows three generations of a family living on South India’s Malabar Coast who suffer the loss of a family member by drowning. 

All of these books are available in e-book and downloadable audio from Libby by Overdrive, the Library’s electronic book provider, as well as print. If the books are checked out, don’t let that deter you: place a hold on the item and you will be notified by e-mail or text when the book becomes available.   Happy Reading!