

It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here
Jul 1, 2025
11:40
Summer is here… and for lots of locals, that means digging into their reading list.
Whether it’s time on the plane or relaxing on a staycation, the warmer months can be a good time to explore some new books.
We take a trip to Elliott Bay Books on Capitol Hill to check out what’s new and exciting on the shelves.
Elliott Bay Books Book List:
- Jess Walter, So Far Gone
- Peter Benchley, Jaws
- Hampton Sides, The Wide Wide Sea
- Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance
- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
- The Constitution
- Om El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
- G.T. Karber, Murdle Mystery Puzzles
- Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
- Holly Wilson, Kittentits
- Daniel Mason, Northwoods
- Catherine Newman, Sandwich
- Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
- Carys Davies, Clear
- Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
- Miranda July, All Fours
- Margaret Killjoy, The Sapling Cage
- V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
- V.E. Schwab, Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- Naomi Novik, Uprooted
- Allison Saft, A Dark and Drowning Tide
- Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
- Travis Baldree, Legends and Lattes
- Ali Hazelwood, Bride
- Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
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