As the days stretch longer and the air feels warmer, some of our staff are sharing what they’re planning to read this summer season.

Lucie Dess, marketing assistant

• The Deep End by Jenna Guillaume
• Social Queue by Kay Kerr
• The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
• If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales & Cale Dietrich
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
• The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag
• Idol Gossip by Alexandra Leigh Young

Jess Strong, digital content coordinator

• Sarahland by Sam Cohen
• Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
• Free by Lea Ypi
• The End of Bias by Jessica Nordell
• The Storm of Echoes by Christelle Dabos
• Celestia by Manuele Fior

Lian Hingee, digital marketing manager

• Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
• The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda (translated by Alison Watts)
• Devil’s Ballast by Meg Caddy
• Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
• No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
• She Kills Me by Jennifer Wright

Aurelia Orr, bookseller at Readings Kids

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
• The Silence of the Scheherazade by Defne Suman (translated by Betsy Goeksel)

Kim Gruschow, co-manager at Readings St Kilda

• Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
• The Beatryce Prophecy Kate DiCamillo
• Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki (translated by Zack Davisson)
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Mannie Murphy
• The Latin American Cookbook Virgilio Martínez

Joanna Di Mattia, bookseller at Readings Carlton

• Summer by Edith Wharton
• In a Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
• The Feast by Margaret Kennedy
• The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
• W-3: A Memoir by Bette Howland
• Heiresses by Laura Thompson
• The Heath by Hunter Davies

Tye Cattanach, bookseller at Readings Carlton

• Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
• Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
• Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
• The Keepers by Al Campbell

Clare Millar, bookseller at Readings Online

• Devotion by Hannah Kent
• Devotions by Mary Oliver
• Killernova by Omar Musa
• Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego
• The World in a Grain by Vince Beiser

Angela Crocombe, children’s specialist at Readings Online

• The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt
• The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• Turtlenecks by Steven Christie
• The Uprising by Eirlys Hunter
• Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
• Aurora’s End by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
• Soil by Mathew Evans
• Recipe for a Kinder Life by Annie Smithers
• Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto

Gabrielle Williams, bookseller at Readings Malvern

• Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
• The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
• Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Lou Ryan, manager at Readings Carlton

• Rules for Visiting by Jessica Francis Kane
• Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
• In the Cut by Susanna Moore
• Intimacies by Katie Kitmura
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• Seven and a Half by Christos Tsiolkas
• After Story by Larissa Behrendt