The best books for summer

Expectation

Anna Hope

The End

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Supper Club

Lara Williams

On Chapel Sands

Laura Cumming

Live a Little

Howard Jacobson

A Very Human Ending

Jesse Bering

Novacene

James Lovelock

What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway)

Nimko Ali

Skint Estate

Cash Carraway

This Is Not A Drill

The Bell

Iris Murdoch

Walks in the Wild

Peter Wohlleben

Everything I Know About Love

Dolly Alderton

A Boy in the Water

Tom Gregory

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

The Language of Kindness

Christie Watson

Rough Magic

Lara Prior-Palmer

The Salt Path

Raynor Winn

Dinosaur Times

Ladybird

Big Sky

Kate Atkinson

Knife

Jo Nesbo

Good Omens

• Neil Gaiman

• Terry Pratchett

J. M Barrie

Gay Britannia

Various

On Fire

Naomi Klein

Crossfire

Malorie Blackman

The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two

• Philip Pullman

• Christopher Wormell

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

Agent Running in the Field

John le Carré

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Hair Love

• Matthew Cherry

• Vashti Harrison

Super Duper You

• Sophy Henn

• Sophy Henn

The Secret Dragon

Ed Clarke

There’s an Alien in Your Book

• Tom Fletcher

• Greg Abbott

The Witch’s Warning

Joseph Delaney

The Extraordinary Life of Anne Frank