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Hot Dog Girl (2019)
2.0/10on Open Library
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Lou takes a summer job in a small amusement park and lands in a hot dog costume. Her crush gets to be a pirate, and her best friend gets drafted into a plan that makes the friendship harder to read. The embarrassing summer job makes this a particularly funny choice when a beach romance sounds a little too polished.
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Melt with You (2022)
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Fallon is trying to avoid her former best friend, Chloe, when their moms’ ice cream business puts them both on the same summer road trip. The girls have to sell ice cream together before they can make sense of last year. Choose it for steady proximity and family loyalty with a rivalry that has nowhere to hide.
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We Can't Keep Meeting Like This (2021)
4.0/10on Open Library
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Quinn and Tarek work on different sides of the same weddings, so the summer keeps putting them within earshot of each other. She plays harp for her family’s planning business and he works with the caterers. Pick this for a romance that makes the gap between working inside other people’s happy endings and believing in one funny and uncomfortable.
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The summer of chasing mermaids (2015)
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Elyse arrives on the Oregon coast after an accident ended her career plans as a singer in Tobago. A summer regatta puts her back on the water alongside a town local. Try it when you want a coastal romance that gives the main character’s life before the summer as much weight as her new crush.
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The summer of firsts and lasts (2011)
6.0/10on Open Library
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Three sisters go back to the same camp, each with something she wants to do before the season ends. That gives a familiar setting a different meaning for each girl. Read it if you’re drawn to the family story and want to hear what more than one sister makes of the same summer.
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The lake effect (2017)
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Briggs takes a summer job on Lake Michigan and gets a lesson in what the people in his new town find worth keeping. His eighty-four-year-old boss asks him to attend her funeral while she’s still around. The kindness, and a girl next door who takes time to understand, make this a good quieter choice for the summer after graduation.
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Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow (2019)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Lila spends the summer with family friends in Winchester after a rough time in Miami. A teashop clerk introduces her to his town, and what she can bake there gives her a way to carry her family’s cooking into a new place. Try it for a summer that mixes first love with the possibility of making a home in more than one place.
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Summer of Everything (2020)
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Wesley spends his last summer before college at a Santa Monica bookstore that may have to close. He’s also carrying a long-standing crush on his best friend. Pick this for a familiar summer gathering place and a romance where the hard part is saying something that might change what both boys already have.
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Summer of Bitter and Sweet (2022)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Lou’s summer at her family’s ice cream shack puts her alongside an ex-boyfriend and a friend who vanished years earlier. The return of an estranged father’s demands makes this a heavier choice. Read it for the way family and identity shape what she can ask of the people who want to get close again.
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Summer days and summer nights (2016)
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Twelve short love stories give you a different version of a summer romance each time you turn to a new author. Some stay close to a first date and others turn toward the fantastical. This collection is a good pick if a single long drive back to the same beach house sounds less inviting than several short visits.
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The Summer of Impossibilities (2019)
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Four girls gather at a lake house because their mothers were once best friends there. Now the daughters have a summer to try out a friendship of their own, with crushes and hidden worries making it harder to play the parts their parents remember. Pick it for the overlap between a group’s history and what the teenagers think they owe each other.
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Summer constellations (2018)
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Julia works at the campground her family may have to sell, and a boy she’s drawn to has a family connection to the buyer. If the summer place matters as much to you as the couple, this one makes both choices part of the same problem. Julia’s job gives her a reason to notice exactly what she might lose.
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Stay sweet (2018)
8.0/10on Open Library
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Amelia is about to take on more responsibility at the town’s ice cream stand when its founder dies. The owner’s grandnephew wants to make changes, which gives their growing closeness something specific to argue over. Try it for an old summer ritual that needs the girls who staff it to decide what it will become.
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Summer of supernovas (2016)
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Wilamena knows enough about astrology to think she can tell which boy is right for her. When she falls for a musician whose sign looks wrong on paper, the family tradition she relies on starts getting in her way. Pick this for a teen love triangle with a family belief as its source of trouble.
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Starry eyes (2018)
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A camping trip leaves former best friends Zorie and Lennon in Northern California’s backcountry together. Their families’ feud makes it easy to see why they might keep walking past each other at home. Choose this if you want the pleasure of getting an old friendship back alongside the urgency of finding a way out of the woods.
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This One Summer (2014)
8.0/10on Open Library
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A graphic novel by Mariko and Jillian Tamaki. Rose and Windy have known each other through summers at Awago Beach. This time, Rose’s parents are fighting and a story among the older teens catches both girls’ attention. The quiet panels capture how a familiar cottage can start to feel different as you grow into it.
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Every Summer After (2022)
8.5/10on Open Library
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An adult romance with six summers of growing up alongside the lake behind it. Percy returns to the place where she and Sam became close and has to face the reason she stayed away. Pick this if you want the old dock and the family next door to hold memories the characters are old enough to reconsider.
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Happy Place (2023)
7.5/10on Open Library
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Harriet and Wyn have broken up, but their closest friends still expect them to act like a couple on the group’s Maine vacation. The cottage is for sale, so one more week means a lot to everybody. Start here for an adult second-chance romance that takes the wider friend group as seriously as the couple.
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Same Time Next Summer (2023)
10.0/10on Open Library
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Sam brings her fiancé to her family’s Long Island beach house, where her first love is already next door. Seeing who she used to be there makes her look harder at the life she’s planning now. Read this adult pick for a familiar property and old neighbor doing much of the emotional work.
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The Infinity Between Us (2022)
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Violet returns to a beach house in Ogunquit, Maine, to close its sale and finds Will still there. Five years apart have changed their relationship more than they’ve changed the places the pair spent their summers. Choose this adult romance if you like the tension of sorting through a shared past while the house is about to change hands.
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Summer of Songbirds (2023)
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An adult reunion novel for the friends you used to see only in summer. Three women come back together when their childhood camp is in danger of closing. The relationships that grew from the camp matter in the present because saving the place means putting some long-running tensions in the same room.
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