Reading Time: 5 Minutes
Unwinding after a busy year is a lot easier to do with a great book in hand. Whether you're relaxing by the pool, soaking up rays at the beach, or cosying up in your favourite corner at home, the right read can make all the difference. To help optimise your annual leave and you escape into another world, we’ve curated a list of 10 must-reads for summer - covering everything from romance and self-help to laugh-out-loud humour and more!
15th July 1988: Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?
Available at David Jones
She's riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hates her coworkers. The less she knows about them, the better. So when a catastrophic IT f*ck up grants her access to all of their emails and private messages, she's initially horrified.
Available at Whitcoulls
The Mountain Is You
Brianna Wiest
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
A book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good. For centuries, the mountain has been used as a metaphor for the big challenges we face, especially ones that seem impossible to overcome. To scale our mountains, we actually have to do the deep internal work of excavating trauma, building resilience, and adjusting how we show up for the climb. In the end, it is not the mountain we master, but ourselves.
Available at Flo & Frankie
In her memoir, journalist Dolly Alderton explores the challenges and humorous moments of growing up. From navigating love and heartbreak to managing self-sabotage, finding a career, and dealing with friendships, Alderton's story resonates with readers as she recounts falling in love, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, and discovering that your mates are always there for you at the end of the night.
Available at The Warehouse
We Solve Murders
Richard Osman
Cracking Open the Nest Egg
Martin Hawes
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life, but his daughter-in-law Amy Wheeler leads a different life as a private security officer. When protecting a famous author on a remote island, Amy’s mission turns deadly with the discovery of a dead body and a bag of money. She sends an SOS to Steve, and together they must race around the world to escape a killer.
Available at David Jones
Planning for retirement can be a scary thought, whether it is just around the corner or years in the future. Martin Hawes, one of New Zealand's best-known experts on personal finance, answers all of the questions that may be keeping you up at night.
Available at Whitcoulls
The Night She Disappeared
Lisa Jewell
You Are A Badass
Jen Sincero
It's nearly midnight and you're home alone with your baby grandson. Your daughter and her boyfriend have gone out to a party; the first time they've been out since their son was born. And now you are waiting for them to come home. But they don't. The next morning, frantic, you ring your daughter's friends, and you're told that she was last seen heading to a party in an isolated village known as Dark Place...An unsolved mystery, family secrets, a boarding school for difficult teenagers, and an unidentified body.
Available at The Warehouse
In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and world-travelling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word
Available at Flo & Frankie
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***
Mark Manson
Make It Make Sense
Lucy Blakiston & Bel Hawkins
For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. Drawing on academic research and the life experience that comes from breaking the rules, Mark Manson is ready to explode that myth.
Available at Whitcoulls
Bel and Lucy are your culture vultures, newsagents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends. So sharp they'll make you wince, so honest that you might feel uncomfortable with what's reflecting back at you, so funny you'll want to take a photo and send it to your best friend. It's the bedside table essential for women who've felt their way through life and want that experience reflected back at them.
Available at RUBY
And if reading isn’t quite your thing, or you’d rather watch or listen instead, why not check out our podcast, Newmarket Vox. Available on Apple, Spotify, iHeart Radio and YouTube.
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