2024 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