The Goodreads Summer Reading Challenge!

Goodreads recently sent out a summer reading challenge, created to help extend comfort zones, end reading slumps, and make sure that readers have the best summer reads ever. We sat down and looked through the beginner's level of this challenge, and have pulled together some of our favorite books that we thought fit these categories. Just a disclaimer: not all categories are on here because some are more suited to the person doing the challenge, and some we found ourselves lacking in recommendations. But without further ado, here are some great books that pair with this challenge perfectly!

If you want to see the PDF for both the beginner's level and expert's level, it can be found here.

Summer Related Tasks:

1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

2. The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

3. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

1. To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

2. Summer Days, Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins

3. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

1. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

2. The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

3. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

4. The Memory of Lemon by Judith Fertig

1. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

2. Meet Cute by Various Authors

3. The Statistical Probablity of Love At First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

4. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

1. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

2. All the Light You Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

3. Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

1. This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith

2. Phantom Limbs by Paula Garner

3. Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

1. Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

2. What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

3. Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E.K. Johnstone

1. More Than This by Patrick Ness

2. There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

1. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum

2. Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

3. The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom (or anything by Albom)

Tasks to Stretch Your Comfort Zone:

1. Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

2. Snow Falling by Jane Gloriana Villanueva

3. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

4. The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle

5. Soulmates by Holly Bourne

1. Simon vs the Homo Sapien Agenda, The Upside of Unrequited, Leah on the Offbeat by Beck Allbertalli

2. History is All you Left Me by Adam Silvera

3. The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

4. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

5. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

1. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

2. I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

3. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

2. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon

3. The Flame in the Mist by Renéé Adieh

1. The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Imari Jaakelainen

2. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

3. Night by Elie Weisel

1. Summer Days, Summer Nights edited by Stephanie Perkins

2. Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

3. Let's Pretend This Never Happened

1. The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace

2. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

3. The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan

1. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

2. Beast Keeper by Cat Hellisen

3. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

4. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

1. Walk on Earth A Stranger by Rae Carson

2. Vengeance Road by Erin Bowman

1. Seriously . . . I'm Kidding by Ellen Degeneres

2. Bossypants by Tina Fey

3. Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham

4. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

5. Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

We, like Goodreads, hope that this collection of challenges will extend your reading comfort zone, introduce you to new genres, authors, and stories, and make your summer reading spectacular!

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