Top Ten Tuesday: Book Titles That Include the Word *Summer*

 Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.  This week the theme is Book Titles That Include the Word (add the word of your choice – and I chose) Summer:

Deep Summer by Gwen Bristow (1937). When Judith is swept off her feet by handsome Philip Larne, an adventurer and slave trader, he builds her a beautiful plantation in Louisiana, where they raise a family, despite joys and sorrows along the way.  Bristow is focused on the development of Louisiana and the role all its people played, affluent whites, poor whites, and slaves, in this compelling historical novel.  My review. 

Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews (2020).  Conley Hawkins accepted a prestigious newspaper job in DC which gets canceled after it’s too late to keep her old job. Instead, she goes home to Florida where her older sister is running the family’s small-town newspaper.  Conley does not intend to help rejuvenate the paper but when a congressman dies mysteriously, her reporter instincts kick in.  My review.

Mrs. Lorimer's Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering (1953).  Mrs. Lorimer is expecting a quiet summer until her four adult children (some of whom bring children and nannies) all decide to visit at the same time.  Some stay with her friend, Grace Douglas, a writer based on Clavering’s friend and neighbor, D.E. Stevenson.  I had never heard of this author until Dean Street Press brought her back into print but have greatly enjoyed those I have now read.  My review.

The Narrowboat Summer by Anne Youngson (2020).  Three women in their fifties who meet by accident form an unlikely friendship while dealing with changes in their lives and a difficult journey on a narrowboat along the English canals. This is a delightful story that made me think of the canal family in Thursday’s Child!  My review.

Paintbox Summer by Betty Cavanna (1949).  Kate Vale spends the summer before college in Provincetown full of angst about her future while painting furniture for real-life folk artist, Peter Hunt.  As you can see, Hunt’s art is featured on the cover, which makes this book quite valuable (alas, I only have a paperback).

Seventeenth Summer by Maureen Daly (1942).  Some call this the first-ever YA novel - it features 17-year-old Angie Morrow, who falls for local basketball star Jack Duluth in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, the summer after they finish high school.  My review.

Star-Spangled Summer by Janet Lambert (1941).  When lovely Carrol Houghton goes to visit Penny Parrish at Fort Arden, Kansas, she is introduced to the fun of life on an army base and is embraced by the affectionate Parrish family and Penny's teenage friends.  This is the first book of Lambert’s most popular series and very suitable for the 250th anniversary of America.

In The Summer Guests by Tess Gerritsen (2025), the second book in Tess Gerritsen's "Martini Club" series, Maggie Bird and her fellow, former CIA spies investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl when a body is found in a nearby pond, uncovering old secrets.  My review.

Summer of Fear by Lois Duncan (1976).  Rachel's carefree summer is disrupted by the arrival of her orphaned cousin Julia, who quickly charms everyone except her, leading Rachel to believe Julia is using witchcraft to turn her family against her.

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green (1973).  When Patty’s small hometown in Arkansas becomes the site of a camp housing German prisoners during World War II, Patty, who is Jewish, begins to see prisoner, Anton, not as a Nazi, but as a lonely, frightened young man with feelings not unlike her own.

I had many more possibilities (summer is a very popular word!) but these are all books I think you would like.  Have you read any of these?