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Modern Mrs. Darcy's Summer Reading Guide

Summer is made for reading. But nothing is more frustrating than picking up the latest (and much-hyped) new release to find that even though it’s a bestseller, it’s not the right book for you. How do you enjoy the hits without wasting time on the misses? Enter the summer reading guide. Anne Bogel read hundreds (literally, hundreds!) of new releases to prepare this year’s guide, thinking of you all the while. She's compiled her favorite summer titles and whittled the overwhelming array of readerly options down to these 30 titles, with the tastes of Modern Mrs. Darcy readers in mind. Get the full guide including her reasons for each choice here.

Field Notes on Love

By: Jennifer E. Smith
Narrated by: Anthony Mark Barrow & Karissa Vacker
Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

"Utterly romantic." --Jenny Han, NYT bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before

The bestselling author of Windfall and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight returns with a meet-cute romance about Hugo and Mae, two teens who are thrown together on a cross-country train trip that will teach them about love, each other, and... Read more

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Waiting for Tom Hanks

By: Kerry Winfrey
Narrated by: Rachel L. Jacobs
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel.

Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing screenplays, rewatching Sleepless in Seattle, and waiting for her movie-perfect meet-cute. If she... Read more

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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By: Linda Holmes
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Linda Holmes
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“I enjoyed following Evvie's journey as she navigated her life and figured out how to handle loss, love, friendships, family and happiness. This book was a great escape with a sweet romance woven throughout. I enjoyed the nods to NPR and, since I'm from Minnesota, enjoyed the mentions of my home state as well. A perfect beach listen! Read more

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Time After Time

A Novel

By: Lisa Grunwald
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

A magical love story, inspired by the legend of a woman who vanished from Grand Central Terminal, sweeps readers from the 1920s to World War II and beyond.
 
“Readers who enjoyed Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife will be enchanted.”—Publishers Weekly

“I utterly loved this clever, charming, hopeful tale of true love against all...
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The Last Romantics

A Novel

By: Tara Conklin
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

“The Last Romantics is the story of four siblings, three girls and one boy. Their father dies unexpectedly when they are young and their mother retreats to her bedroom for months. This period, the "pause" in their lives, sets the tone for their strong, bonded relationship as well as the trajectory of their lives. The boy, Joe, is the central... Read more

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The Mother-in-Law

A Novel

By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“I thoroughly enjoyed the audio of Sally Hepworth's The Mother-In-Law. Excellent narration. The story begins with the death of Lucy's mother-in-law, Diane. Diane told her family that she had breast cancer, but she doesn't. More mysterious, drugs are found in her system. What follows is a look back in to the history of a complicated family, made... Read more

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To Night Owl From Dogfish

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer
Narrated by: Imani Parks, Cassandra Morris, Michael Crouch, Sullivan Jones, Bahni Turpin, Renata Friedman, Cassandra Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Giordan Diaz, Alexandra Harris, Johnathan McClain, Emily Rankin & Various
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.

Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives... Read more

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Searching for Sylvie Lee

A Novel

By: Jean Kwok
Narrated by: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan & Caroline McLaughlin
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

“Searching For Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok was a sublime listening experience. The expert narration added to the suspense of the novel and had me listening way past my bedtime! Searching For Sylvie Lee tells the story of a missing sister and the devastating ramifications of secrets kept long ago. How well do we truly know our loved ones? Their... Read more

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Ask Again, Yes

A Novel

By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Molly Pope
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

“"Love is only part of the story" is a quote taken from one of the last pages of "Yes, Again Yes." Love may be just a fraction of this fabulous novel but it is also the thread that weaves this heartbreaking tale together. The novel centers around two families who are next-door neighbors. The patriarchs are policemen. The families are not friends... Read more

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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

A Novel

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Deepti Gupta
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama—an Indian This Is Where I Leave You—about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest.The British-born Punjabi Shergill... Read more

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Hope and Other Punch Lines

By: Julie Buxbaum
Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Robbie Daymond & Julie Buxbaum
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things and What to Say Next delivers a poignant and hopeful novel about resilience and reinvention, first love and lifelong friendship, the legacies of loss, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.

"A luminous, lovely story about a girl who builds a future from the ashes of her... Read more

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Gravity Is the Thing

A Novel

By: Jaclyn Moriarty
Narrated by: Aimee Horne
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty—a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman—that follows a single mother’s heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her family and herself.Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s... Read more

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The Accidental Beauty Queen

By: Teri Wilson
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

In this charming romantic comedy perfect for fans of Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella, critically acclaimed author Teri Wilson shows us that sometimes being pushed out of your comfort zone leads you to the ultimate prize.

Charlotte Gorman loves her job as an elementary school librarian, and is content to experience life through the pages of her... Read more

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Unmarriageable

A Novel

By: Soniah Kamal
Narrated by: Soniah Kamal
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“This inventive retelling of Pride and Prejudice charms.”—People

“A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society.”—NPR

Alys Binat has sworn never to marry—until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider.

A scandal and vicious rumor concerning the Binat family have... Read more

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Ayesha at Last

By: Uzma Jalaluddin
Narrated by: Roshni Shukla
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

As seen on The Today Show! One of the best summer romance picks!

One of Publishers Weekly Best Romance Books of 2019!

A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.


Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives... Read more

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Resistance Women

A Novel

By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

“This poignant, previously untold story highlights a group of female spies in the resistance movement during World War II. Four women’s lives are entwined (only one of which is fictional), as one American, two Germans, and one German Jew gather intelligence to bring down the Third Reich from within. Beginning with an emotionally evocative... Read more

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The Island of Sea Women

A Novel

By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

“Off the southern coast of the Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island is home to generations of haenyo—women who take their living from both land and sea and call the shots in their matriarchal society. Young-sook and Mi-ja are best friends in the 1930s, learning to dive with their all-female collective while their island suffers under Japanese... Read more

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The Huntress

A Novel

By: Kate Quinn
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

“I needed a super engrossing audiobook and having had such a good experience with both The Rose Code and The Alice Network, I knew The Huntress narrated by the wonderful Saskia Maarleveld would do the trick. If you are a fan of historical fiction with strong female characters then you have to check out Kate Quinn (if you haven't already). Her... Read more

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Daisy Jones & The Six

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pablo Schreiber
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“The story of a band that experiences a meteoric rise and then comes apart. A great listen - the cast is fantastic. I wonder whether I would have enjoyed reading it as much as I did listening because the cast does such a great job. Read more

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The Gown

A Novel of the Royal Wedding

By: Jennifer Robson
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

““Ann and Miriam are working for Norman Hartwell as embroiderers in 1947 when his firm receives a commission to create the wedding gown for Princess Elizabeth. As the two become best friends, we learn about their lives before the war and follow them as the gown is created. A fascinating look at life in post-WWII England, a time of both... Read more

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