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Best Of The Summer: 6 Books The Critics Adore

Illustration: A trophy sits on a pile of books.
Andrew Bannecker

There is no one definition of a summer book. It can be a 1,000-page biography, a critically acclaimed literary novel, a memoir everyone is talking about — or it might be your favorite guilty pleasure: romance, crime, science fiction. Whatever you choose, it should be able to sweep you away to another world, because there is nothing like getting totally lost in a book on summer day. Here are a few books that swept away some of our favorite critics.

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Lynn Neary
Lynn Neary is an NPR arts correspondent covering books and publishing.

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