Bring on the books: best summer reads 2017
Whether you’re arming yourself for weeks on the beach or planning lazy lunch hours in the park, sunny days call for a reading list overhaul. Forget those titles gathering dust on your bedside table and revive your ‘to read’ list with the best new books summer 2017 has to offer.
We’ve read our way through this year’s releases to compile a list of 12 books not to miss. There’s pacy crime, feel-good romance and enough literary clout to spark the interest of the Booker Prize panel.
Click through our slide show of the best new books to revive your reading list.
When a 26-year-old woman’s debut novel ignites a seven-way bidding war the Zadie Smith parallels are inevitable. Then, when the story revolves around bisexual performance poet students with communist leanings and a line-blurring relationship with an older couple, comparisons with Girls or Fleabag come to mind.
But Sally Rooney’s prose in Conversations With Friends is wholly her own: light, yet incisive, as fluent as an email to a friend but with the intensity and imagery of free verse.
