Some books are made for summer. NPR staffers share their all-time favorites

A few weeks ago, we asked NPR staffers to share their all-time favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great to read by a pool or on a plane, it was fair game. Scroll down to find tried-and-true recommendations for mysteries, memoirs, essays and, of course, romance.

• Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene

• Happy Hour: A Novel by Marlowe Granados

• The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

• The Interestings: A Novel by Meg Wolitzer

• All the Missing Girls: A Novel by Megan Miranda

• Act One: An Autobiography by Moss Hart

• The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel by Richard Osman

• Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock

• Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

• The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay

• The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein

• Call Me by Your Name: A Novel by André Aciman

• Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession

• Who is Maud Dixon?: A Novel by Alexandra Andrews

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin

• Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel by Casey McQuiston

• No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol

• Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

• The Wedding Crasher: A Novel by Mia Sosa

• The Summer Place: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This list was produced by Beth Novey and edited by Maureen Pao and Meghan Collins Sullivan.

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