Would you like to relax on the beach and be entertained by a good book? Or would you like to use the summer time for personality development? Or to expand your field of vision? We have suitable book tips for the summer of 2023 to fill the time with good reading.

Shallow and rough at the same time: This is how readers often describe the novel “22 Bahnen” by Caroline Wahl. And that makes it the ideal book tip for the summer of 2023. It is a story between responsibility and freedom, which is embodied by the character Tilda. The student lives in a small town with her alcoholic mother and little sister who she has to take care of. While her friends get to know the world, Tilda is caught in a sad everyday routine. Until fate is kind to her and she feels free for a short time. But family responsibilities don’t stop constricting the young woman. A gripping story that might give some people something to think about. In any case, it is one thing: good entertainment for the summer.

When was the last time you really had fun? Completely liberated? For those who can hardly remember, Catherine Price’s book “The Power of Joy” is just the right thing. The author was looking for a fun formula to teach her readers to feel real joy again. And Price does that by reporting in a humorous but serious way how she managed to bring more fun into her life again. A book that is definitely worth reading and an important part of the book tips for the summer of 2023 – to be able to enjoy it with all your heart. With a lot of joy.

Akwaeke Emezi’s novel You Are So Beautiful Even Death Turns Pale retells the classic love story. In the book, Feyi Adekola is looking for lust, sex and sensuality again five years after the death of her great love. A story begins with a supposedly perfect new relationship, an adventure on a private island in the Caribbean and a big taboo. Sometimes exaggerated and exaggerated, this book nevertheless shows how exciting it can be to throw yourself back into life after a loss and to try something unusual in order to feel alive again. A stimulating, more unusual story and therefore well suited as one of our book recommendations for the summer of 2023.

Certainly already recommended many times, but one recommendation that should not be missing in our book tips for the summer of 2023 is Bas Kast’s “Compass for the Soul”. Because: The book can help you to feel better about yourself. As the title suggests, it provides a guide to reconciling the inside. So if you want to use the summer of 2023 to take care of yourself and work on feeling better, this book tip is a good choice.

In the new novel by T.C. Boyle starts the countdown to the apocalypse: California is in flames and flooding threatens Florida. It is a novel about everyday life in our present times, in which the environment gets mixed up. Entertaining, but also scary and prophetic. For everyone who doesn’t just want to read light entertainment in the summer of 2023.

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