As temperatures begin to warm up and we start picturing the lazy park hangs and beach days in store for us this summer, our minds have already started whirring at the reading possibilities. Over the past year, we've turned to reading as both an escape from our current world and a way to explore without leaving home. While we'll be a bit more mobile this summer, our love for books hasn't changed, so we've once again tapped Jynne Dilling Martin associate publisher at Riverhead Books, and Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books, to help craft the ultimate summer reading list of books written by women. Whether you're itching for a Greek myth retelling, a workplace thriller, a deep dive into the natural world, or a novel about a cannibalistic food writer, we've got you covered.

Here's a full list of what we talked about:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Salvation City, by Sigrid Nunez
Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Ali Smith
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
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