According to Pew Research, the average American reads or listens to twelve books a year. 

When you think about it, one book a month seems totally attainable… until you add in the other responsibilities life brings. Balancing classes, homework, projects, jobs, and your social life can make it difficult to stay in the habit of reading during the semester, which makes right now — summer break — the best time to catch up.

Need another reason to read this summer? Depending on where you live, summer can also equal sticky, humid days that don’t encourage much movement. Beating the heat by jumping in a pool is nice, but nothing tops the feeling of accomplishment that finishing a good book will give you.

We’ve already shared our favorite books to read in summer. However, if you want more recommendations, I’m here to help. Below, I’ll share four of my current favorite books I’m reading (or re-reading) this summer.

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The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell: 

Set in the mid 1920s, The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell is an incredibly compelling, suspenseful tale that will have you addicted from the first chapter.

Narrator Rose Baker takes the reader on a spin through New York’s underground and illegal party scene as she obsesses over Odalie, the newest girl working at her police station—a girl who might just be her undoing. The innocent girl that Rose could always claim to be slowly disappears as Odalie introduces her to the dark side of the city that never sleeps, laws that were made to be broken, and murder.

Rindell’s writing and Rose’s act as an unreliable narrator work together to place the reader in a state where they never know what will coming next, where they’re never quite sure what the truth is, and where they will be absolutely blown away by the novel’s conclusion.