Chatelaine's best-ever summer reads

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• Just what kind of mother are you?, by Paula Daly
  Loyalty, by Ingrid Thoft
  The Shining Girls, by Lauren Beukes
  Unseen, by Karin Slaughter
  Miss Montreal, by Howard Shrier
  The Book of Stolen Tales, by D.J. McIntosh
  
  
  
  
  
  Kingdom of Strangers, by Zoe Ferraris
  Blue Monday, by Nicci French
  Mr. Churchill's Secretary, by Susan Elia MacNeal
  Unraveling, by Elizabeth Norris
  
  
  
  
  
  The Possessions of Doctor Forrest, by Richard T. Kelly
• Never Google Heartbreak, by Emma Garcia
  The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
  Love wih a Chance of Drowning, by Torre Deroche
  Wedding Night, by Sophie Kinsella
  
  
  
  
  
  The Promise, by Lesley Pearse
  Spring Fever, by Mary Kay Andrews
  The Jane Austen Marriage Manual, by Kim Izzo
  
  
  
  
  
  The Last Letter from your Lover, by JoJo Moyes
  The Map of Time, by Felix J. Palma
• The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai, by Barbara Lazar
  The Firebird, by Susanna Kearsley
  Tainted Angel, by Anne Cleeland
  Caught, by Lisa Moore
  The Testing, by Joelle Charbonneau
  
  
  
  
  
  Grave Mercy, by Robin LaFevers
  Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
  
  
  
  
  
  The Angel of Blythe Hall, by Darci Hannah
• The Girl with No Name, by Marina Chapman
  After Auschwitz, by Eva Schloss
  The Children of Lovers, by Judy Golding
  To the River, by Olivia Laing
• Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
  On Sal Mal Lane, by Ru Freeman
  The Golem and the Jinny, by Helene Wecker
  
  
  
  
  
  Beautiful Ruins, by Jess Walter
  The Red House, by Mark Haddon
  Gold, by Chris Cleave
  
  
  
  
  
  There but for the, by Ali Smith
  Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles
• On the road, by Jack Kerouac
  The Disappeared, by Kim Echlin
  The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides
  The Spark, by Kristine Barnett
  A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
  Going solo, by Roald Dahl
  Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed
  Diana: Closely Guarded Secret, by Ken Wharfe
  Confessions of a Shopaholic, by Sophie Kinsella
  One Day, by David Nicholls

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