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The perfect summer reading TBR list

Writer: Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
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We've sorted your summer reading with this perfect poolside TBR list!

Colourful collage of book covers on a teal background, featuring Group Chat, The Cruise, Peck & Peck, Dream Girls, Klara and the Sun, and Massif

It’s time to start thinking about what books you’ll be adding to your summer reading pile and we have all the best reads for you! Whether you want all the feels, some nostalgia and thrilling page turner or want to be transported to another world (relatable!), we’ve got the perfect read for you!


Dream Girls by Hannah Goldstein


Book cover for Dream Girls by Hannah Goldstein, with painted women faces and bold green title, plus review quotes on a pastel background.

A love-drunk Shakespeare enthusiast and a disillusioned Instagram baker try to kill each other at a wedding. They're supposed to be best friends so how did they end up here? Part 10 Things I Hate About You, part My Brilliant Friend, part Lena Dunham's Girls, Dream Girls explores female friendships and asks whether they're the greatest comedies, tragedies and, above all, love stories of our lives.






The Cruise by Naima Brown


Cover on blue pool-water background reading Naima Brown: The Cruise, with a red lifebuoy and revenge thriller taglines.

When reality TV producer Bailey Collins discovers that the man who assaulted her in high school has auditioned for her hit show, she sees the perfect opportunity for revenge. With help from the ‘squad’ a secret sisterhood of women, she casts him aboard a luxury cruise ship where the contestants aren't the only ones playing to win. Ragey. Feminist. Oh-so-satisfying.





Group Chat by Zoe Foster Blake


Book cover with repeated GROUP CHAT text in lavender and red, small citrus and striped icons, by Zoë Foster Blake.

Part Bridesmaids, part White Lotus, and part Mamma Mia, Group Chat is a love letter to female friendship and a powerful reminder that life is short, and it goes real fast, so book the damn girls' trip. Notifications off. The girls trip starts now.






Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro


Book cover of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, showing a girl in profile before a glowing yellow sun on a teal background.

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. Artificial Intelligence. Real feelings






Match Fit by Leesa Ronald


Book cover for Leesa Ronald’s Match Fit, with a couple on a rugby field under fireworks in pink and purple, romantic and festive.

She came to work. He came to play. Falling in love wasn’t in the job description. Match Fit is a globetrotting, friends-to-lovers romcom for readers who love Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation and Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare. In these uncertain times, Match Fit is pure sunshine.






Massif by Garth Nix


Book cover of an astronaut on Mars near a wrecked spacecraft, with Garth Nix, Massif, and a blue mountain sky backdrop.

Hitch a ride on this year’s biggest adventure. Gripping, intelligent science-fiction from worldwide bestselling author Garth Nix. For fans of the Expanse series by James S A Corey including Leviathan Wakes, and David Weber's Honor Harrington books.







Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus


Bright yellow book cover for Bonnie Garmus’s Peck & Peck, with typewriter, small seated man, and text about saving humanity.

The number one bestselling author of global sensation, Lessons in Chemistry, returns with an irresistible story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck.



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