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Hilarious, poignant, and terrifically propulsive, STAY UP WITH HUGO BEST follows June Bloom, an almost-thirty late-night talk show writers’ assistant. When beloved host (and known womanizer) Hugo Best retires, suddenly June is without a job and must return to the unforgiving comedian lifestyle. Desperate for work, June hesitantly takes Hugo up on an invitation to his Greenwich mansion for the long Memorial Day weekend. As the weekend unfolds and the enigmatic Hugo gradually reveals himself, their dynamic proves to be much more complicated and less predictable than she expected.

WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LULULEMONS by Lauren Weisberger For fans of the THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and its cult classic film counterpart, WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LULULEMONS features Emily Charlton—Miranda Priestly’s first assistant—in the spotlight. In classic Lauren Weisberger style, this daring novel follows three worldly women who trade in their Manolo Blahniks for Birkenstocks in the wealthy New York City suburb of Westport, Connecticut. Read the full review of WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LULULEMONS.

Told with Kristy Woodson Harvey’s signature wit and Southern charm, the newest Peachtree Bluff novel has all the necessary ingredients for a perfect summer read: family secrets and mother-daughter relationships. Perfect for fans of Mary Alice Monroe, this is one novel that should be read poolside with sweet tea in hand.

Written by the estranged wife of the Empirical Press publisher, Charles Brooks, in the hit television show Younger, MARRIAGE VACATION is a revealing and provocative novel about Kate Carmichael, who reconnects with a now successful grad school classmate and decides to take a vacation from marriage to find herself. The definition of an escapist summer read.

Mary Laura Philpott ticked all the boxes for a perfect life: job, spouse, house, kids. But instead of feeling content with her happy life, she felt anxious. In I MISS YOU WHEN I BLINK, Philpott examines her work, home, and creative life and the conflicting pressures of adulthood. A charmingly relatable memoir in essays that’ll make see your day-to-day in a new light.

Sadly, we will not be enjoying a new season of Insecure this summer. Thankfully, we have Issa Rae’s hilarious memoir in essays to read and reread. In THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL, Rae waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool. Read the full review of THE MISADVENTURES OF AWKWARD BLACK GIRL.

When Abi Knight gets a call that her teenaged daughter, Olivia, has fallen off a bridge, she never expects to learn her daughter is brain dead and pregnant. Then she sees the bruises on her daughter’s wrists and is left with even more questions: Was Olivia’s fall an accident? Or is there something more sinister at play?

We would never recommend you go through the summer without a Ruth Ware book, which is why we’re so excited about THE TURN OF THE KEY, Ware’s fifth novel. In this Black Mirror–esque novel, Rowan takes a job as a live-in nanny. When she arrives at Heatherbrae House, she’s initially smitten with the technologically advanced house, but soon the surveillance makes her feel uneasy. Things take an unexpected turn for the worst when one of the children in her care dies and she ends up in prison. The problem is Rowan is innocent, which could only mean the culprit—the murderer—is still out there.

As fellow The Office alum and comedian Mindy Kaling says (and we agree): “Ellie is a hilarious and talented writer, although we’ll never know how much of this book the squirrel wrote.” In her collection of essays, Ellie Kemper gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at our favorite shows, like The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and shares hilarious anecdotes, like the time she accidentally fell on Doris Kearns Goodwin. This book that will make you fall over with laughter, so you might not want to read it in the pool.

One of Stephen King’s most propulsive and unsettling stories, THE OUTSIDER follows the investigation of a stranger who becomes another person’s double—and commits horrific acts. If you can’t read through your sunglasses, this audiobook will keep you on the edge of your pool float for hours and hours. Read by Will Patton