Top 10 Late Summer Reads

Have you had enough of summer yet? Yeah, us too. But since there is still more to come, why not focus on all the good reads coming in late July and August? Thankfully, you don't need to go outside to read and these ten titles are perfect escapes from the punishing heat.

And So I Roar by Abi Dare
This follow up to The Girl with the Louding Voice also stars 14-year-old Adunni, who has escaped an arranged marriage and indentured servitude and is excited to start school in Lagos, where she has found refuge with Tia. But she may not be safe for long.

The Best Lies by David Ellis
Diagnosed a pathological liar with unimaginable skeletons in his family's closet, crusading attorney Leo Balanoff is forced to go undercover for the FBI when his fingerprints show up on the murder weapon used to kill a ruthless drug dealer. Finding himself backed into a corner, he has a few more cards left to play.

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult
Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight
Cleo’s seemingly perfect mother, Kat - a successful corporate lawyer - goes missing. When Cleo discovers that Kat is her firm's fixer, she must uncover Kat's secret life by following shocking clues involving infidelity, blackmail, and death threats to find her. But neither one realizes they're both trying to save each other.

The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey
A new story from the authors of the bestselling science fiction series The Expanse. When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their home world, Dafyd Alkhor is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.

Nicked by M.T. Anderson
In 1087, a treasure hunter renowned for "liberating" holy relics from their tombs is paid to bring the 700-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas to Italy to cure the plague. Lowly Brother Nicephorus is ordered to be the treasure hunter’s guide and forced to commit an act of sacrilege on their journey.

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Garcia-Moreno
In 1950s Hollywood, an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine. She becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend's wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.

The Wedding People by Alison Espach
A group of surprising people help an unexpected wedding guest start anew.

Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman - When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.