Recs if you like Summer Sisters...

Maybe the one piece was the friendships we made along the way.

These are all the suggestions the community graciously provided after I asked for friendship book recs (plus some of my own).

This list include all types of friendship dynamics from wholesome and life-affirming to toxic and obsessive. Enjoy!

Books that have been made into a TV series or Movie

(mostly fiction) stories set in boston and new england you should read if you want to be a ✨masshole✨

Books that explore womanhood through the bad and the ugly

by the beach or on the lake, seasonally summer reads

Novels with compelling and well-developed characters in love, either romantic or platonic, and both the good, the bad, and the heartbreaking

These books are chosen for “Read with Jenna” by Jenna Bush Hager.

Latest book added: November 2026

by jenna bush hager

Books across genres that feature a woman as the main character, many written by women as well.