Summer Book Recommendations 

The only “Summer book recommendations” video where “Book Lovers” and “Beach read” are not mentioned. Gotta love Emma! 🫶🏽

Emmie's outfit is giving Swiss farm girl who milks cows and churns butter 🥰

Somehow a girl named emma got me (A Freshman guy in College) from fake reading books in class my whole life to reading 4 books this month so far…preciate it

I'm not sure if I'm alone with this opinion but to me Pride and Prejudice is a book that reminds me of summer, not like a "hot summer day" vibe but more like a warm summer morning when the sun is just coming out and you can tell it's gonna be a hot and humid day, and you can smell the breath of the earth after it rained last night and you inhale the scent of the lightly burnt grass bathing in the morning sun, ugh! I guess I imagine it off of the scene where Darcy is walking towards Elizabeth and we can see the morning sun shining through the grass, and it probably isn't even that hot in England but my brain has it engraved like that 🌾

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury is my all time favourite summer book. Ray Bradbury's writing is the kind that makes you slow down and just bask in how beautiful it is. All the nostalgia and mystery vibes and I love it.

yeees i totally agree about a room with a view ❤ i was really excited when i saw on your stories today that you were reading it!!!

i love words bubble up like soda pop! it’s so cute and it’s definitely perfect for summer

I'm literally compiling a book list for my holiday and I've been struggling so thank you for your perfect timing

Emma, your videos are a joy to watch and have inspired me to film my first ever book haul and tour of the iconic The Iliad Bookshop in LA video!! Thank you for the recommendations.

emmie's vibe is just so soothing, plus i love these book recs oml

I AM doing okay - thanks for asking. Also I love when summer recs aren't all just fluffy rom-coms. Not that there's anything wrong with those! But yeah. Some variety is nice.

circe is fantastic!! i'm also doing summer reading until summer ''officially'' ends haha, a room with a view is also on my tbr

Thanks for the recs! Hope you are enjoying the summer!!

I can always count on you to give recommendations that expand my horizon. Ordered some using your link, hope it works. ❤🐾📚

This really helps people like me from the southern hemisphere who are just about to welcome summer! Cannot wait to get to these! :)

Ahhh! I missed your recommendation videos!!! I always look you up whenever I want to a specific recommendation. Thank you Emma 🥰

I read a Room with A View this summer and it was the perfect vacation read! I love E.M Forster’s writing

I loooved the song of achilles and as an impulse purchase I bought circe, but I was hesitant to start reading it until this video 😊😊 thank you!!

I get inordinately excited when you recommend books that I love. I agree with your Madeline Miller ranking. But for me it’s the endings that the myths created that she had to stick to. I just finished From Little Tokyo with Love (yes it’s set in LA). And I agree ❤️ Henry Chen.

Ahhhhhh, hearing that you also love Your Name has just totally made my day! That's one of my favorite movies of all time! I cry multiple times whenever I rewatch it. The manga has been sitting on my shelf for some time now and you just gave me the motivation to finally read it once I'm back home 🥰 Also, please watch/read the other works of Shinkai. He really is a masterful storyteller, especially of romances. Edit: I also adored Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop. Such a sweet, melancholic, but energetic film. Could relate to the main character a lot, because I also like to write Haiku.

Man, this is such a great episode! Thanks a lot!! A lot of recommendations I am going to check out! :)

Tove Jansson is one of my favourite authors 🥰 I find her adult fiction feels so real because it is very unsentimental. The candidness with which she writes about everyday life is what makes her writing stand apart. For those who’ve already ready The Summer Book (I would recommend starting there), I’d recommend picking up her novel “Fair Play” which is my favourite romantic story. IRL Tove and her partner lived on two ends of an attic apartment with a connecting corridor in the center, and the two women artists in this story do as well, which is why it’s clear to modern audiences they are intended to be read as a lesbian couple. I really haven’t read many books about elderly couples, especially lgbt ones, just such a unique book. Certainly not a warm and fuzzy romantic story, but I found their deep bond and commitment beautiful.

Yay, Stray love! 🤩🐱Can't wait to read Neuromancer. I'm on my Dune reread atm 🤓

This video was so appropiate! I'll finally start Leave the World Behind this weekend.

I am finally reading Untold Night and Day on your recommendation from a year ago !!! I have been waiting for August to get to it and I am so glad I did

Looking GOOD Emmie, hope Ottawa is good for you both. Thank you for your very interesting books.

When you mentioned hot and sticky atmosphere i actually thought it would be about untold night and day) i wanted to read leave the world behind maybe it's time 🤔 thank you for your recommendations! c:

The Summer Book is one of my all time favorites! I read it about 10 years ago and I liked it so much that I started it over and read it again the second I finished it the first time. I've never done that before or since. Now I re-read it every June. It's fantastic. Absolute genius.

I read A Room With a View this summer and loved it!

Thanks for the update

I also have The Summer Book and Madeline Miller’s books on my personal summer reading list! I also have books that are set in the summer but perhaps not stereotypically summery, like 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth and The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. I recently finished The Iliad and will be re-reading The Odyssey: the characters are on the shore or at sea, where I’d like to be (albeit in different circumstances).

I read the summer book this year, both me and my grandma loved it!❤️ I hope you like it too, love from Sweden!

I really reading dark SF book during the summer. I recommend the first tome of Sweet Tooth Thank you Emma 🥰for this video !

Summer is often my rereading period. I am determined to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude today so what did I need? More Emma recommendations obviously! I’ll definitely check out Circe! I’ve been reading a lot of mythology lately. Thanks, Emma! :)

Love your dress, Emma! Yes, Your Name is perfection. I love the manga and the movie. Circe is a great recommendation too. I really want to read A Room with a View and The Summer Book. Happy readings, sweetie! 💖📚✨

Thank you for always showing great contents.🙏

✨OMG! Your hair is growing so much! It’s gotten so darn long! 🥹🤭🌙

I’m currently reading Neuromancer and loving it. 👌🏻

Yay Tove Jansson! I'm practically collecting NYRB Classics at this point.

I love that you are getting into manga! I'm going to pick up Your Name because the story sounds really lovely (and your book recs have never led me astray). I think you would really love 'Our Dining Table' by Mita Ori? It is so stinking cute and lovely!

Yes! "Your Name" the movie, is absolutely amazing! Sure the story is a little slow in starting buuuut, the overall storyline is amazing and it shows me that I am not the only one who feels the way the characters in the movie do.

Meet me at Midnight is a great summer romance novel. It’s hate to love with a touch of forced proximity! I would definitely check it out

I have a lot of these on my TBR but haven’t been convinced to read them until this video 🌞 also, outfit? Slay 🐄

my first time in a while watching a new video of urs as soon as it's posted 🐰

I looooooveeeee "Your name"!!!!!! I was so happy whenI find out there is a book,not just manga and anime.🥰🥰🥰🥰

Btw, thanks Emma for introducing me to one hundred years of solitude. I just finished the book and I love it so much it hurts!

I live for your recommendations; just finished One Hundred Years of Solitude (and I am obsessed) and before that I also picked up Great Expectations because of you and I loved that one too!)🖤 a book that will now always make me think of summer is Frenchmans Creek by Daphne du Maurier, it's about pirates and adventure and a little bit of romance too . Very fun read

I love your outfit!!

Nice summer reading recommendations in mid august

I went to a 14-day trip far away from home and I also took a break from social media. I am now finally at home and I am binge watching your videos that I missed. I am happy you are doing fine in your new city!💖

My Dad (who doesn't read) was gifted the Stationery Shop so I'm hoping for the best with that one. You were pretty middle of the road with it in your last video but I have a faint memory that you had a positive initial reaction. Anyways, chill video, enjoyed the laid back nature of this one. Hope the summer isn't too bad, last time I was up in Toronto during August there was a heatwave that made walking outside impossible. Great excuse for reading though.

Your Name gets even better on the rewatches!!

I recently read 'The Psalm for the Wild-Built' by Becky Chambers is a comfort scifi and is probably one of my favorite all time books now. I highly recommend!! Its pretty short but so fulfilling

I want to recommend “100 Days of Sunlight” for a sweet summer read! I read it 2 days and then downloaded the audio book (read by the author Abbie Emmons) and enjoyed it all over again. Please read it! I’m sure you’ll love it too! 💛

this is a good day because emmie uploaded a new video

Perfect as always.thank youuuuu

I am currently reading The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki and I am loving it! It discusses themes of chaos and order, the voices of inanimate objects and all that goes into the making of those objects, language play and comprehension, and of course form and emptiness. I am sure you would find it interesting, highly recommend! 😊

Thanks for your videos

THAT DRESS THO 😭♥️♥️♥️

Thank you 🙂 your book recs💕

Just finished The summer book. It was wonderful!

ahaha i don’t know if this is kinda obvious but call me by your name is a very good summer read, especially at end of the summer, when we all want to go back to the pool, or to a specific beach, restaurant... For me it is perfect, i think it captures perfectly summer love and nostalgia

I started "the song of achilles" in the summer of 2021 but have yet to finish it lmao I paused at chapter 16 because...well...I forgot why lol but I'm hoping to get back to it before the last rays of summer disappear >~

thank you emmie

Read the Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. It is the most perfect summer book. It is short, elegiac, filled with the oppressive heat of late summer. There is a wonderful audiobook narrated by Sean Barrett (only ten hours long). It begins with the famous line 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'. I have never forgotten this book and always associate it with high summer.

I read Circe this month and I loved it. Madeline Miller has become one of my most favourite authors and now I want to read Galatea too!

my good!! your name manga is exquisite!! And can we please take a look of that cottage outfit!! ohhh yes i saw the haiku movie it´s so pretty. Thamk you for the recomendations

ADORED Leave the World Behind! 5/5 read for me

Thanks!

You are the best vlog Emma like your recommendation video too

I love this your beautiful outfit

I think An Enchantment of Ravens is perfect for late summer/early fall. It has a fantasy version of those disgusting-hot-decay-icky summer vibes you talked about.

also Emma, read THE BLIND OWL need to know your thoughts - it was intense and awesome

The Summer Book is amazing. Highly recommend!

Looking happier Emma. 👍

Hey Emma! Thanks for all the recommendations. You should definitely give "5 centimeters per second" a try if you enjoyed "Your name". It is made by the same studio. I love the manga too. Also, Circe was my favorite read this year, great book!

Love the outfit

Reckless Girls is very much a summer book! It’s marketed as a modern retelling of Agatha Christie which I don’t think it really is but it’s still a great summer read.

hey hey, not really leaving a summer book recommendation, but if you liked Your Name I highly recommend watching Weathering With You (currently on Netflix)!! Such a refreshing movie for hot summer days^^

My favorite summer read is The Great Gatsby!

Since you mentioned ‘your name’, ‘a silent voice’ is another film/manga I absolutely recommend if you haven’t heard of it before. It’s about a boy who used to bully a deaf girl when he was younger, but deeply regrets it after growing up a bit and does his best to find her again and make amends. It’s a very heartbreaking but also heartwarming story and it’s a really wonderful experience that punched me in the heart and I’ll always hold onto.

A book that I think would be terrific for summer is Still Life by Sarah Winman. It's probably the best book I've read thus far this year. It's about a group of English people in Florence in the decades after WWII, and the story and her writing style are both incredibly beautiful. I highly highly recommend it! :)

With E. M. Forster I highly recommend A Passage to India, it has some beautifully written passages and it really makes you think about culture, class and colonialism, and it's set in India so it's hot and humid and in my view quite summery. I've read almost all of his books, and this is by far my favorite!

i have the perfect book for your summer, My Year of Rest and Relaxation from Ottessa Moshfegh, is just so cleverly annoying and depressing, you'll love it

You totally should read Our share of night by Mariana Enriquez, based on what you said you wanted to read is perfect, and the translated version has just come out

I love your videos

Emma, have you read "The Machine Stops" by E M Forster? It's a novella that packs a wallop even now.

Nice recommendations

How amazing!! Also where did you get that shirt from it looks divine!

Amazing

My favorite type of books to read during the summer are books by authors that were heavily influenced by the principles of transcendentalism. Wallace Stegner has some great books that feel like summer, my favorite probably being “Angle of Repose.”

i JUST thought “i wish there was a new emma video for me to watch while im in lunch time” 🤯🤯🤯

Im hoping to read A Room With A View when i go to Rome!

If you're looking for another audiobook recommendation, I think you would like "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society", about a London author who finds solace and solitude among a book-loving community on the Isle of Guernsey as Britain recovers from World War 2. Since it's an epistolary novel, every letter-writer in the production I heard has their own reader. It made the contrast in accents between the English main character, her Channel Island friends, and her American suitor SUPER enjoyable to experience. There was a movie of it, which was alright, but the audiobook was SO MUCH better!

I don’t know why but I always think of Summer as the books that have either have beaches (because duh)and also about super heroes and super powers (because I have always loved Summer Blockbusters at the theaters!) I would recommend to you My Hero Academia, A Man Called Ove, and also for a nonfiction book…House of Gucci! ILYSM and I hope you have such a great day! ❤️

Super cute

Just noticed Tov Jansson also has “The Winter Book”!

So nice

circe was on my summer tbr, I read it last month and loved it ☀️ also, unrelated, but what is your mbti?

can you make autumn/spooky book recommendations