summer literature & film guide

a comprehensive, hyper-specific summer reading & movie guide (and some podcasts), from moods to locations

I am currently on vacation (and have been very bad at posting regularly here), so I thought I would post a detailed summer reading guide!

I already posted one a month ago, but had an idea to post more of a hyper-specific one based on travel destinations (or what you like doing in the summer). I also included a few movies for each. Many of these vibes are just my Spotify playlist names, so I am linking them as well. I also listed some of my favorite podcasts (design, history, literature, etc). I’ll do an actual post on it soon!

From the English countryside (classic books) to California’s portion of Route 66 (1960s California Joan Didion esque) to your bedroom (feeling lost in your 20s) here are a bunch of recommendations!

Below is also my original summer literature guide, which is just split into classic literature and contemporary literature.

late summer dusk [northern italy]

melancholy late summer breeze by the coast as the sun sets, on the precipice of autumn that you can just barely feel

BOOKS

Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howard

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Summer by Ali Smith

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offhill

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MOVIES

Aftersun

La La Land

Before Sunrise

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

500 Days of Summer

Past Lives

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