10 contemporary novels to read this summer

As of May 14th, my friend from college and I started a book club blog. We're now living on separate sides of the continental divide and the book blog is our way of staying in touch. I love reading, but I'm finding that I have no idea which books to read or really what the contemporary options are. I've read The Fault in Our Stars and The Book Thief, but what else is there? In search for literary knowledge, I've joined goodreads. With the aid of goodreads reviews, I've compiled a list of the the top ten contemporary novels I intend to read this next year:

1. The Hollow Ground by Natalie S. Harnett

2. Free to Fall by Lauren Miller

3. Goodnight June by Sarah Jio 

books I've used in real life

For my humanities 101 class I spent an evening in the library reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It was excruciating. Not because of the plot or style, but because I had to sit for three hours straight speed reading. I had to tap my toes and bounce my knee just to keep myself sitting. When I finished the play, I checked off that I’d read it before class and left the library. I still don’t know what happened in Hamlet. I read it too quickly to absorb any of the plot and all I can remember was what is referenced in Freaky Friday. The last time I watched the movie I was like, “there was a ghost?” Apparently this is important to the plot.