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I know I just shared my spring reading challenge but I figured I’d get a little ahead with my summer reading challenge! As usual, this is an honor system reading challenge and you don’t have to officially join anything.
And by honor system, I mean you can do this challenge however fits your reading style and taste! I chose nine prompts which could be three-ish books a month but you can choose one for each month if three would be too much.
I included five suggestions for each prompt but you can obviously find your own in preferred genres if you want. And some of these are interchangeable among the prompts. Heck, you could even use one for four different prompts if you wanted!
I will say, there is a lot of YA on this list but I tried to mix in a good amount of adult, too. I jut have a sweet spot for YA summer books myself. So, all that said, here is my summer reading challenge!
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- If you want to listen to some of these, consider trying Audible! You can get your first month free (one free book). Get that Audible deal here.
- If you want to read more on your Kindle but don’t want to buy books, Kindle Unlimited is a good option, especially if you read a lot of indie authors. Get Kindle Unlimited here!
- Shop my book lists here! You can find every book list I have on Bookshop.org (except my monthly round-ups) and I add everything I can but they occasionally won’t have some. I do occasionally add extras though. If any lists are empty, they’ll be filled in..eventually! Shop my bookshop.org book lists here.



Blue cover
You can find my whole list of books with blue covers here.



Green cover
You can find my whole list of books with green covers here.
- Strange Pictures
- A Walk in the Woods
- Lost in the City of the Monkey God
- Wilder Girls
- A Song of Wraiths and Ruin



A campy book



Lake or pool on the cover
- Second Chance Summer
- The House Across the Lake
- You Have a Match
- Stillhouse Lake
- Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance



Ice cream or popsicle on the cover



Sunglasses on the cover



Set in the summer on vacation



Road trip book
- Reunited
- The Museum of Intangible Things
- You With a View
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
- Places We’ve Never Been



Summer in the title
Are you joining the summer reading challenge? What will you be reading? Keep me updated here or on Instagram!