Summer of Spicy

2022 is the Summer of Spicy! To ensure you have the ultimate summer, we've made lists for every type of reader so that you can get exactly what you want to read, or spice it up with new genres. Find the right list for you below and be sure you're getting the hottest and most popular reads.

Summer Reading: Romance Guide

See more, including books by Spice-level, in our full Romance Summer Reading Guide ->

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The War of Two Queens

Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Hook, Line, and Sinker

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Bridgerton Boxed Set: The Duke and I/The Viscount Who Loved Me/An Offer from a Gentleman/Romancing Mister Bridgerton

Julia Quinn

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Edenbrooke

Julianne Donaldson

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The Things We Leave Unfinished

Rebecca Yarros

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Summer Cooking Guide

See more cookbooks, sorted by skill-level, in our full Summer Cookbooks Guide ->

Hot Thai Kitchen: Demystifying Thai Cuisine with Authentic Recipes to Make at Home

Pailin Chongchitnant

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Char-Broil Grilling Essentials: Essential Tools, Techniques, and 100 Recipes for Appetizers, Main Dishes, and Sides

Editors of Creative Homeowner

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Hot for Food All Day: Easy Recipes to Level Up Your Vegan Meals [a Cookbook]

Lauren Toyota

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Chaat: The Best Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India

Jody Eddy

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Chasing the Gator: Isaac Toups and the New Cajun Cooking

Isaac Toups

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Maangchi's Big Book of Korean Cooking: From Everyday Meals to Celebration Cuisine

Martha Rose Shulman

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Serial Griller: Grillmaster Secrets for Flame-Cooked Perfection

Matt Moore

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BBQ Desserts: The Art of Making Desserts Using Smoker and Grill

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Tea at the Palace (Royal Family Cookbook, Afternoon Tea Recipes): 50 Delicious Recipes from a Royal Chef

Carolyn Robb

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VBQ - The Ultimate Vegan BBQ Cookbook: Seared, Skewered, Smoking Hot!

Nadine Horn

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The World's Best Spicy Food: Authentic recipes from around the world

Lonely Planet Food

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Make it Spicy: More than 50 recipes that pack a punch

Amy Machnak

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Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries

Kristina Cho

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Nadiya Bakes: Over 100 Must-Try Recipes for Breads, Cakes, Biscuits, Pies, and More

Nadiya Hussain

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The Tucci Cookbook

Stanley Tucci

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Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration

Genevieve Ko

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Guy on Fire: 130 Recipes for Adventures in Outdoor Cooking

Guy Fieri

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The Spicy Dehydrator Cookbook : 80 Incredible Recipes to Turn up the Heat on Jerky, Fruit Leathers and More

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Ottolenghi Simple

Yotam Ottolenghi

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Summer Reading: Mystery, Thriller, & Horror Guide

See more lists, from Cozy to Terrifying, in our full Mystery, Thriller, & Horror Summer Reading Guide ->

The Book of Cold Cases

Simone St. James

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The Murder of Mr. Wickham

Claudia Gray

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The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix

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The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley

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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix

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Run Rose Run

James Patterson

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Caramel Pecan Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen #28)

Joanne Fluke

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The Body in the Library

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The Violin Conspiracy

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A Spy in the Struggle

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The Woman in the Library

Sulari Gentill

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Beaches, Bungalows, and Burglaries

Tonya Kappes

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Featured Author

Colleen Hoover

The Queen of #BookTok Colleen Hoover is our Summer of Spicy spotlight author! And how could she not be with hits like It Ends With Us, Verity, and Ugly Love? Since her first book Slammed hit the shelves in 2012, she has pretty much never left the bestsellers list, and her bibliography alone makes a stellar (and okay, hot) summer reading list.

On the Horizon

Pre-Order the most anticipated summer book releases

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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

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More Than You'll Ever Know

Katie Gutierrez

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The House Across the Lake

Riley Sager

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Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

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The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

April White

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Tracy Flick Can't Win

Tom Perrotta

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The Daughter of Dr. Moreau

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang

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Lore Olympus: Volume Two

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The American Roommate Experiment: A Novel

Elena Armas

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Aura of Night: A Novel

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Top Summer YA Books

The most popular Teen & Young Adult New Releases

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

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A Magic Steeped in Poison

Judy I. Lin

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Bravely

Maggie Stiefvater

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Star Wars: Queen's Hope

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Some Mistakes Were Made

Kristin Dwyer

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See You Yesterday

Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Oath (The Starlore Legacy)

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The Book of Living Secrets

Madeleine Roux

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder Series Boxed Set: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Good Girl, Bad Blood; As Good as Dead

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A Thousand Steps Into Night

Traci Chee

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Blood Scion

Deborah Falaye

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Hunt A Killer: YA Novel #1

Angelica Monai

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My Dearest Darkest

Kayla Cottingham

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Top Sci-Fi Summer Books

The latest Sci-Fi can't miss hits

Tell Me an Ending

Jo Harkin

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Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

James S.A. Corey

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The Immortal King Rao: A Novel

Vauhini Vara

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Walk the Vanished Earth

Erin Swan

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The Kaiju Preservation Society

John Scalzi

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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories from Dirty Computer

Janelle Monáe

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Kingdoms of Death

Christopher Ruocchio

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Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom

Mike Brooks

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Starseed R/evolution: The Awakening

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Star Wars: Brotherhood

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Harry Josephine Giles

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Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Alien: Colony War

David Barnett

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A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers

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Nonfiction for the Summer

Trending Memoir, Biography, and more nonfiction new releases for your summer edification

The Office Bffs: Tales of the Office from Two Best Friends Who Were There

Jenna Fischer

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Mark Harris

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True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us

Danielle J. Lindemann

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Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

Bernadette Banner

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Just Tyrus: A Memoir

Tyrus

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Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

To Be Confirmed Avid Reader Press

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Anna: The Biography

Amy Odell

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Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Maud Newton

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Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

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Traced: Human DNA's Big Surprise

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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown

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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White

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River of the Gods: Sir Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Sidi Mubarak Bombay and the Epic Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

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Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

Paul Holes

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Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Ric Prado

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Out of the Corner: A Memoir

Jennifer Grey

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The Nineties: A Book

Chuck Klosterman

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Phasers on Stun!: How the Making--And Remaking--Of Star Trek Changed the World

Ryan Britt

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Spice Up Your Shelf

Add something new to your shelf with these 20 experimental, genre-defying titles

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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing

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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

Mark Dunn

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If on a winter's night a traveler

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Out of Stock

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Marisha Pessl

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Wittgenstein's Mistress

David Markson

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The Unfortunates

B.S. Johnson

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The Tragedy of Arthur

Arthur Phillips

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

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Classics

20 books that were "spicy" long before TikTok made it a trend

Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence

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Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (N / A ) / Nevynosimaya legkost bytiya (n/o )

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Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

Pablo Neruda

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Dubliners

James Joyce

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Les Liaisons dangereuses

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel

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Rubyfruit Jungle

Rita Mae Brown

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Madame Bovary. Mœurs de province

Gustave Flaubert

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Howl and Other Poems

Allen Ginsberg

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The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland

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Collectibles

Rare & Vintage titles with swoon-worthy covers

Dune (Promotional Use Only) (Hodder Summer Reading)

Frank Herbert

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Escrito Con La Sangre de Mi Coraz?n/ Written in My Own Heart's Blood

Diana Gabaldon

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The Chronicles of Narnia

C.S. Lewis

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Surrender In Moonlight

Jennifer Blake

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A Handful of Heaven

Kristin Hannah

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The Case of the Cautious Coquette: The Case of the Crimson Kiss- The Case of the Crying Swallow

Erle Stanley Gardner

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Heart in Hiding (Second Chance at Love #208)

Francine Rivers

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The Fallon Legacy

Robert Jordan

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The Song of the Siren

Philippa Carr

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Battlestar Galactica

Robert Thurston

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This Side of Innocence

Taylor Caldwell

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Journey to Yesterday

June Lund Shiplett

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Tempting Harriet (Signet Regency Romance)

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Savage Surrender by Natasha Peters (1977-05-03)

Natasha Peters

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Melissa

Taylor Caldwell

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Honeymoon in a Taxicab

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Demon :Gaean 3

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Tarzan and the City of Gold: (#16)

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