It’s summer, baby. An age of swimming, the sweats, and Zooper Doopers. However, summer is far more than just these three activities. It’s also an age of taking a book to the beach and demonstrating to everyone that you know how to read.
Yet, interestingly enough, what you choose to read this summer says something about your personality. Such choices can tell others: Who you are, what you’ve been through, and even your very future. It’s imperative, therefore, that you choose a summer book that matches your desired persona.Â
To help you in this journey, we’ve compiled six summer books that are worth your time. We have also noted what they say about your personality. Good luck.
Never Ever Forever by Karina May
Premise
Rosie Royce is trying to live her best life. Really, she is. But the universe just keeps messing with her. At her Mudgee radio station gig, the handsome but infuriating co-host, Dr Markus Abrahams, keeps grinding everyone’s gears. What’s more, a school reunion brings her childhood heartbreak back into her orbit.Â
However, when Rosie’s work whisks her away to India — a place well and truly beyond her comfort zone — a new plane of possibilities opens up. Perhaps in this country, she’ll find love?
Never Ever Forever is a summer romance that takes you from Mudgee to Mumbai. It’s both super soapy and way too real, a brill ride.
What This Book Says About Your Life
Your ex fled the country, and you’re still mad about it. You take solace down at the harbour, where you almost forget to put on your sunscreen. You think that your dermatologist hates you.
If you want to learn more about Never Ever Forever, click the link here.
Three Can Keep a Secret by Night Parrot Press
Premise
Three Can Keep a Secret is a captivating collection of Aussie short stories. This summer book is filled to the brim with tales from 81 established and emerging writers from Western Australia. What’s more, all these stories simmer with shadows, secrets, and the silences that hide beneath the surface of our everyday lives.
What This Book Says About Your Life
You have unresolved high school trauma. However, you also champion new Australian work, which makes you an incredible beast.
If you want to learn more about Three Can Keep a Secret, click the link here.
RecipeTin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
Premise
Nagi Maehashi is the voice, cook, and photographer behind RecipeTin Eats, an Australian food blog that has amassed a massive online following. Now, in her first cookbook, Nagi wants to bring you on a new journey. A journey full of hearty salads, Asian noodles, Christmas feeds, and all of her Mexican faves.
What This Book Says About Your Life
You are tired of ordering Uber Eats. You are tired of having Dominos for every second meal. You’re ready to enter the kitchen again. You are ready to make yourself proud.
If you want to learn more about RecipeTin Eats: Dinner, click the link here.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
Premise
Ernest Cunningham is travelling between Darwin and Adelaide aboard the Ghan. However, this train trip is no ordinary train trip. As this author is the distinguished guest of a travelling crime-fiction festival. What’s more, someone on the Ghan has been murdered.
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect is a sequel to Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. Both of these books are hilarious, iconic, and make for great summer reads.
What This Book Says About Your Life
You are a crime fiction junkie. When you’re not bingeing Miss Marple, you’re wondering if your pinot noir has been poisoned. You have a buckwild personality, but somehow in the kindest possible way.
If you want to learn more about Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect, click the link here.
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx
Premise
The Communist Manifesto is a text which argues that capitalism is an economic theory that exploits its workers and only brings wealth to the wealthy. It also argues that a classless society will bring about better working conditions for the masses.
What This Book Says About Your Life
Your rent was just raised by another $200 each week. You now have to return all of your nieces and nephew’s Christmas presents. You don’t know why this keeps happening, as you’re working 10 hours every single day. Your summer isn’t going to be pleasant at all.
If you want to learn more about The Communist Manifesto, click the link here.
Search History by Amy Taylor
Premise
After fleeing to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all Ana has to show for herself is an unfulfilling tech start-up job and one questionable dating app experience. Yet, everything changes when she meets Evan. He’s charming, kind, and financially responsible, everything you could want in a guy.
However, Ana can’t resist the urge to find Evan online. She then discovers that his previous girlfriend, Emily, died unexpectedly in a hit-and-run less than a year ago. After this, Ana starts to worry that she’s living in the shadow of his lost love. Just how perfect was this Emily? And why won’t Evan talk about her?
Search History is a witty debut novel about identity, obsession, and how social media can complicate our entanglements.Â
What This Book Says About Your Life
You Google everyone that you meet. Before you go on a Tinder date, you vet your crush’s entire Instagram page. You believe that everyone has a closet of skeletons, and you can’t wait to gobble them up.
If you want to learn more about Search History, click the link here.
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