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