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.
It’s the vivacious humour that propels you through Nathan Hill’s debut book. Throw in bildungsroman, family saga and a zeitgeisty satire and it’s no wonder critics are bandying around terms like ‘Great American Novel’.
If you want yet more proof of a bona fide new literary talent, the forthcoming miniseries adaptation of The Nix starring Meryl Streep bodes well.
The Nix tells the sprawling story of Samuel, a bored literature professor with a penchant for gaming, whose estranged mother goes viral online. Then a shrewd literary agent senses a cash cow, and Samuel is encharged with researching his mother’s life story for a tell-all character assassination.
Flitting back and forth over a 50 year time span, Hill slices through culture with extravagance and aplomb.
