Books to read this summer, according to D.C.-area booksellers

📚 "Summer Fridays" by Suzanne Rindell: "A summer romance with heft that's also a nostalgic look at New York in the early aughts," says Weiswasser.

📚 "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman: This follows a woman at her annual Cape Cod family vacation as she navigates the transition between being a mom of grown kids and a child of aging parents. "[It] hit me in all the places as the mother of teens and a daughter of an elderly father," says Joyce.

📚 "The Demon of Unrest" by Erik Larson: A historical nonfiction look at the months between Abraham Lincoln's election and the lead-up to the attack on Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War.

📚 "28 Summers" by Elin Hilderbrand: Based on the film "Same Time Next Year," this Nantucket-based book takes place over a series of one weekend per year during a decades-long relationship.

📚 "James" by Percival Everett: A retelling of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" from the enslaved character Jim's point of view.

📚 "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones: "This perfect novel is about a heartbreaking love triangle and the experience of being Black in America," says Weiswasser.