Books for Kids That Don't Like to Read

Summer is in total swing and there's zilch like heading to the embankment — or the park — sitting by the water, contemplating the view, grabbing a good volume and just immersing ourselves in it. That's why we're throwing out some ideas for the perfect summertime novels.

We are adhering to "embankment reads" rules though: most of the titles hither are either total folio-turners or grant some instant gratification — or both. And all of them will transport you to faraway places or the kind of setting you'd relish spending a vacation at, either because of when they were written or where they are set.

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" past Patricia Highsmith (1955)

The oldest book on this listing is the offset one in a series of five psychological thrillers that Patricia Highsmith wrote most her infamous Tom Ripley grapheme. Even if he'south a sociopath with more than murderous tendencies, the reader can't avoid being on Ripley's side while reading Highsmith's engrossing novels.

The whole series is ready in Europe with the first volume taking its protagonist and the reader to San Remo, Rome, Palermo and Venice. Plus, there'south a constant longing for a trip to Hellenic republic.

This Australian classic is set in 1900 and features a group of boarders from an all-girls school in Victoria as they have a day trip to the nearby geological germination Hanging Rock. There are plenty of descriptions of proper picnic attire, the dazzler of the mural and the relationships that bond this grouping of teenagers and their teachers.

And while Joan Lindsay's writing style and the setting for this novel may have you cartoon some parallels with other classic coming-of-age novels written by and starring women, the ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock could only have been written in the 1960s.

"Los mares del Sur" (Southern Seas) by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1979)

Permit me the hometown reference with this Castilian novel set in Barcelona in 1979. Written by the Galician-Catalan author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Southern Seasis the most famous of his novels starring the individual detective Pepe Carvalho. He'south a gourmet who'due south every bit obsessed with nutrient, literature and the city of Barcelona.

Besides a methodical description of the metropolis in the late 1970s, the book also includes references to a trip to the Southern Seas that never was.

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami (1987)

Written by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, this coming-of-age novel follows the story of Toru Watanabe, a higher student who is obsessed with American literature. He'south trying to figure out his life in Tokyo in the 1960s and ends upwards in relationships with two women who couldn't be more unlike: there's Naoko, the former girlfriend of his best friend, and Midori, one of his classmates.

The story takes the reader from the humming streets of Tokyo to the peaceful quietness of a rehab center lost in the mountains nearby Kyoto.

"Get Shorty" past Elmore Leonard (1990)

Small-scale-fourth dimension Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Las Vegas, hoping to get a debt paid, and ends up in Los Angeles, where he learns about the film-making business and how to go a producer. Set in Hollywood in 1990, this California archetype masterfully blends suspense, thrills, humor and even the slightest hint of a Western.

This story is so quintessentially Hollywood that there's a 1995 movie adaptation starring John Travolta and a 2022 TV show with Chris O'Dowd, only you should definitely starting time with the Elmore Leonard novel.

"Death at La Fenice" by Donna Leon (1992)

American novelist Donna Leon has been calling Venice dwelling house for years. Her kickoff book in the mystery series that stars the Venetian police detective Guido Brunetti follows the investigation of a music conductor'southward death after he's poisoned during the intermission of a Verdi opera at La Felice.

Leon has been steadily publishing one new Commissario Guido Brunetti installment a year for decades. So if you dear the Venitian setting, criminal offense stories and the constant descriptions of all the succulent foods (and drinks) that Brunetti ingests on a daily ground, this could definitely be the serial for you.

"Call Me by Your Name" past André Aciman (2007)

Chances are we'll never get to encounter Luca Guadagnino's sequel to his Call Me by Your Name movie adaptation. And while André Aciman'due south follow-up novel, Find Me, may leave hardcore fans of Elio and Oliver a little flake underwhelmed, there's nothing like going dorsum to the original material.

Set confronting the backdrop of the Italian Riviera, this coming-of-historic period story follows the precocious Elio as he falls in dear with Oliver, a graduate student and Elio's parents' guest for the summer. This iconic summer read perfectly captures the feeling of longing for someone and it features plentiful, engaging conversations, early morning swims, leisurely bike rides, a furtive human relationship and a passionate trip to Rome.

"Americanah" past Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sets this story — that deals with immigration, race and the feeling of belonging — in Lagos, London and New Jersey. Her protagonist is Ifemelu, a young Nigerian adult female who moves to the U.s.a. to farther her studies.

Americanahmakes for a bang-up read not merely as an engaging and entertaining novel but too as a written report well-nigh race in America from the perspective of a non-American Black person. The novel also packs a circuitous love story between Ifemelu and Obinze, who moves to London and has to live there as an undocumented immigrant.

"Big Fiddling Lies" by Liane Moriarty (2014)

I don't care if you've already seen the star-packed HBO miniseries and know non just who the killer of this story is but also the identity of the person who dies and whose investigation propels the whole plot, Liane Moriarty's soapy thriller however very much deserves a read.

On the one paw, instead of the rugged declension of Northern California, the novel Big Lilliputian Lies is ready in the suburban Northern Beaches of Sydney. On the other paw, the book jams plenty sense of humour and sharp barrack — especially when it comes to the inclusion of dialogue from the police interrogations among the many parents who take their kids to the aforementioned schoolhouse as our protagonists — that you'll find plenty nuggets of new material to more than justify the read.

"The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (2017)

Taylor Jenkins Reid's historical fiction bestseller is ready between the publishing world of present-twenty-four hours New York and the archetype Hollywood of the 1950s, 1960s and onward. When the relatively unknown announcer Monique Grant is tasked with writing a profile on the legendary actress Evelyn Hugo, she tin't believe her career-changing luck.

The novel guides the reader through a serial of interviews betwixt Monique and Evelyn in which the one-time star tells her origin story and the reasons backside her many marriages throughout the years.

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Andrew Sean Greer's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel stars Arthur Less every bit a novelist with a dwindling career and a broken center. As if all of that wasn't enough already, Less is on the brink of turning 50. When his old long-fourth dimension boyfriend invites Less to his hymeneals, our hapless protagonist decides to embark on a serial of dorsum-to-back international trips with a "ramshackle itinerary" to avert the much-dreaded event.

Greer'southward fun and never-quiet novel takes the reader and its protagonist from the foggy shores of San Francisco to New York City, Mexico City, Turin, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, India and Nihon.

"Amanuensis Running in the Field" by John le Carré (2019)

The last published novel of late spymaster John le Carré is a return to some of his career-defining themes in the globe of international espionage, which he describes with precision — and without a glimpse of glamour or spectacle.

The novel stars Nat, a reluctanthoped-for-out-of-the-field agent in his belatedly forties, who has had a long career developing sources in Russian federation. Nat's back in London and somehow tin can't avert getting himself involved in yet another surveillance plot. The volume is set up in 2022 and there'southward constant churr among its characters regarding Brexit and the Trump assistants. Le Carré favors none of those.

Fifty-fifty if you don't similar international thrillers featuring double agents that much — who doesn't though? — Amanuensis Running in the Field is still worth a read if only to appreciate Le Carré's succinct yet masterfully rich and descriptive prose.

"Beach Read" by Emily Henry (2020)

Permit's add Beach Readto this list of beach reads because Emily Henry'due south romance novel truly does its title justice. Prepare in a modest Michigan town, the novel tells the story of bestselling romance author January and acclaimed fiction writer Gus. They end up being neighbors and living side-by-side in lakefront cottages.

One affair leads to another and they terminate upwards making a bargain: by the end of the summertime he'll exist the one to pen a romance volume and she'll write a dark and bleak one. They both demand to teach the other everything they need to know to exist able to produce something in a genre they're non used to working in. Of class, besides all the procrastinating and writing, there'due south besides time for love.

"The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett (2020)

Terminal year's revelatory novel The Vanishing Half tackles the subject of passing when it comes to racial identity. The Brit Bennett-penned historical novel, which is already being developed into a limited series by HBO, tells the story of two identical twin sisters from a small-scale town in rural Louisiana where the majority Black population is then lite-skinned that one of the sisters passes as a white woman for virtually of her life after fleeing boondocks.

The action encompasses several decades starting in the 1950s and weaves together the life of the assimilated sister — who's leading a double life in New Orleans start and then Los Angeles — with that of the other 1, who is forced to return home.

"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2021)

Let's shut this listing with an August release from one of 2020's bestselling authors. After her Mexican Gothicwas chosen as Best Horror novel last year by the Goodreads users, writer Silvia Moreno-Garcia returns with Velvet Was the Nighttime.

The Mexican Canadian author sets the action in 1970s United mexican states City and writes nigh Maite, a secretary obsessed with romance stories and her beautiful neighbor Leonora. When the object of her fixation disappears, Maite starts looking for her — merely she isn't the merely one.

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