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.
If the summer lull leaves you hankering for a challenge, Paul Auster’s weighty and ambitious new novel is well worth sinking your teeth into. At 880 pages 4,3,2,1 takes concentration, commitment and strong arms.
In return you get four times the story - sort of. In a fiercely intelligent take on the ‘what if’ concept behind Sliding Doors, it gives us the same life from four parallel possibilities. The prose drills into the repercussions of decisions with deft detail and Auster’s characteristic panache.
