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Summer Reading: All Together Now

Adult novels reflecting the summer reading themes of friendship, kindness and unity.

Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative

11 items

  • A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2020. — FIC BEAH
  • El-Wardany's sparkling, incisive debut uses the conventions of romantic comedy to explore the social and personal tensions faced by young Muslim women in contemporary Britain.
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022. — FIC ELWARDAN
  • A moving and joyous novel about an elderly woman ready to embrace death and the little girl who reminds her what it means to live.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — FIC LYONS
  • From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution.
    BookSeattle : AmazonCrossing, 2019. — FIC SEGOVIA
  • A road trip can drive anyone over the edge--especially two former best friends--in bestselling author Ann Garvin's funny and poignant novel about broken bonds, messy histories, and the power of forgiveness.
    BookSeattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2021] — FIC GARVIN
  • A romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2019. — FIC HOANG
  • A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on an odyssey to reconnect with four old friends over the course of a year.
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2019. — FIC KANE
  • An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group—the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.
    BookNew York, NY : Custom House, [2022] — FIC MAY
  • Music and the generosity of strangers provide healing. In 1994, 16-year-old April performs her songs at open mic nights around her small hometown in Upstate New York. Then, after her disapproving father destroys her guitar, she strikes out…
    BookNew York : Gallery Books, 2021. — FIC LARKIN
  • This affecting autobiographical novel from Griffith recounts a proud and independent woman’s struggle to lead a meaningful life despite a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. The end product is a plausible warts-and-all portrayal of a person…
    eAudiobookMacmillan Audio, 2018
  • Serena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want—and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2021. — FIC LALLI