Summer Reading

02 July 2026, The Tablet

CHILDE HASSAM, SUMMER SUNLIGHT (ISLES OF SHOALS), 1892. ALAMY/RTRO

Our reviewers and contributors recommend some of the very best in holiday reading, ranging across fiction, memoir, religion, history, biography, letters, philosophy, nature, art history, cookery and poetry: books to illuminate, inspire, shock and soothe.

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