Chatelaine's best-ever summer reads

From chilling mysteries and melt-your-heart romances to daredevil adventures and sweeping literary sagas, pack your summer with these sweet escapes.

By Chatelaine

Updated August 9, 2013

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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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