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“I read now for the same reason I read when I was a little kid: for the sheer joy of transport into a world more interesting, more intense, more colorful, more surprising — that dual virtue of escape and entry. Reading unlocks the worlds that are walking around in other people, to understand other people’s struggles, to see them in three dimensions. Reading lets you live many lives. Think how small the world would be without it. How limited, how blurry, how incomprehensible.”
Janet Fitch, The Los Angeles Review of Books
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As discerning literary women ourselves, we at So Textual believe your summer reading stack can be as intellectually enriching as it is indulgent—dismissing the notion that the “beach read” must be light, throwaway, or emotionally shallow.
The Official So Textual Summer Reading List blends the literary with the leisurely—think Mediterranean villas, blue skies, glittering water, and long afternoons spent with a book in hand.
These are the books that smart, sophisticated, well-read women are slipping into their carry-ons for this year’s summer vacation. Some are sun-soaked and romantic; others are contemplative and quietly devastating. All have been chosen for the thinking woman’s summer.