Lemonade, beach trips, late night movies, picnics, ice cream melting in your hands, sharing Diet Coke with a fling. Everyone wants a nice breezy summer and an even breezier summer reads to beat the heat. So here is The Bombay Circle Press’ curated list of five breezy reads from fiction novelists for summer of 2025.
- The Meet Cute Lane by Luna Lee
Luna Lee’s The Meet Cute Lane is the perfect summer anthology for romance readers who want a nice weekend read while sipping some lemonade.
Synopsis:
George Man is regretting his drunken decisions as a stranger shows up to join his dreaded raodtrip back home. Sam is spending her precious Saturday at Disneyland against her will, until she receives an airdrop from a random visitor. Bailey is running across the airport to catch her flight when she notices a horrible mix-up…
Meet-cutes happen when you least expect them. Sometimes you’re thrilled by them, sometimes wary of them. What’s in store for these unsuspecting characters?
- Peculiar Occurrences in the 18th Century Town of Sillyshire by Ernst Mil
If Lady Whistledown were a historical fantasy writer with witty one liners and gripping plot, then the novella would be called fiction novelist Ernst Mil’s Peculiar Occurrences in the 18th Century Town of Sillyshire.
Synopsis:
Dear reader,
Welcome to the wee town of Sillyshire, where strange happenings are giving the town’s name a run for its money. Meet our heroine, the beautiful Henrietta, who is fated to face a tragic fate at the hands of her most wicked lover, Baleful Burton, at the perilous cliff that will soon be her namesake.
Trust me, reader, you are going to want to gather around for this one.
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
Summer is incomplete without a trip to the beach and an Emily Henry book that will make you fall in love. So get the best of the both worlds with her 2020 novel, Beach Read.
Synopsis:
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block.
Until, one hazy evening, they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously).
- Eternally Single, Rosa Álvarez by Neerja Pawar
If this book was a summer fruit it would be the sweet oranges. Neerja Pawar’s Eternally Single, Rosa Álvarez is more than a quintessential romance.
Synopsis:
Rosa Álvarez leads two lives. One is deceptively normal. A respectable physiotherapist living in Los Angeles: the city of fish tacos and famous bigwigs. She works hard at her job, loves living the single life, and has a trip home to Mexico at the very top of her priority list.
The other is her mother’s worst nightmare. For one, the first is a lie. She does love her job, but its uniqueness would put any good chick flick to shame. She hasn’t been on a date in five years, at least, not any good ones. And she will do anything to avoid a trip to her sleepy hometown.
- Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
From fiction novelist André Aciman, comes the summer romance that took the world by surprise—Call Me by Your Name. The story transports you to the quiet lanes in a small town in Italy where summer seems like forever.
Synopsis:
It is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them.
These reads are perfect if you want to lounge on the beach, late night reads with the cicadas background noise at night, at bonfires or just visiting grandma’s house for summer!