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.
On the surface Sweetbitter is a light, decidedly hipster coming of age tale, but there are flashes of dizzying depth to Stephanie Danler’s debut novel.
We follow 22-year-old Tess, who’s waiting tables to fund her big city Brooklyn dream. The snorting lines of white powder and spouting lines of poetry depiction of youth should feel cliché, but Danler’s prose keeps you hooked.
There’s an insistent and intoxicating rhythm to her writing, which transcends the immediacy of the plot to remind even the maturest readers what it is to be 22 and unsure and in love.
