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It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here

It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here

Update: 2025-07-01
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Summer is here… and for lots of locals, that means digging into their reading list.

Whether it’s time on the plane or relaxing on a staycation, the warmer months can be a good time to explore some new books.

We take a trip to Elliott Bay Books on Capitol Hill to check out what’s new and exciting on the shelves.

Elliott Bay Books Book List:

  • Jess Walter, So Far Gone
  • Peter Benchley, Jaws
  • Hampton Sides, The Wide Wide Sea
  • Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance
  • Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
  • The Constitution
  • Om El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  • G.T. Karber, Murdle Mystery Puzzles
  • Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
  • Holly Wilson, Kittentits
  • Daniel Mason, Northwoods
  • Catherine Newman, Sandwich
  • Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
  • Carys Davies, Clear
  • Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
  • Miranda July, All Fours
  • Margaret Killjoy, The Sapling Cage
  • V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
  • V.E. Schwab, Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • Naomi Novik, Uprooted
  • Allison Saft, A Dark and Drowning Tide
  • Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  • Travis Baldree, Legends and Lattes
  • Ali Hazelwood, Bride
  • Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon 

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It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here

It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here

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