Happy Summer Reading

Congratulations! You’ve voyaged through another school year full of the triumphs, challenges, and sweet surprises of international life. Thank you for all your hard work – you deserve to completely enjoy this summer. 

But what’s a good summer without good books? We’ve gathered the ISS staff’s top recommendations to get your reading list started:

• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 

• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan 

• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate 

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien 

• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey by Alfred Lansing (especially the Simon Prebble audiobook version!)  

• Exit West by Mohsin Hamid  

• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 

• The Lost City of the Monkey Gods by Douglas Preston 

• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah 

• The Outsider by Stephen King 

• The Sellout by Paul Beatty 

• The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve 

• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Anne Patchett 

• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 

• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly 

• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 

• New Media Reader edited by Nick Montfort and Noah Wardrip-Fruin 

• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 

• Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult 

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Whether you’ll be enjoying these books at beaches, backyards, or international airport terminals, we wish you a happy summer of reading!