{"id":57110,"date":"2025-08-10T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:35:08","slug":"here-are-the-books-londoners-checked-out-from-the-library-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/57110\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the books Londoners checked out from the library this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it’s reading on the beach, at the cottage, or lounging poolside, summer just cries out for a good book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We asked the London Public Library to share\u00a0a list of the 10 most popular books\u00a0checked out this summer. Genres such as historical fiction, thriller and romance topped the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Check out what Londoners are reading, and share your book suggestions with us by sending us an email<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid<\/p>\n

The novel tells the story of Joan Goodwin, one of the first female astronauts in NASA’s space shuttle program in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"WomanAtmosphere: A Love Story novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. (Libby Harding\/The London Public Library)<\/p>\n

2. Careless people: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Green and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a memoir detailing the author’s experiences as a former executive at one of the most influential companies on the planet: Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3. The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grief, intimacy and the paradox of joy amid trauma are the themes of this novel about a young man who forms an unlikely bond with an elderly widow.<\/p>\n

4. The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue\u00a0<\/p>\n

The historical fiction novel is based on an infamous train derailment that happened at the Montparnasse train station in Paris, in 1895.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AThe Paris Express was a popular book this summer. (Libby Harding\/London Public Library)<\/p>\n

5. It Happened on the Lake by Lisa Jackson<\/p>\n

New York Times bestselling author\u00a0Lisa Jackson, tells the story of a woman who returns to the Oregon town where a nightmare unravelled 20 years ago and is waiting to bury her again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

6. Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mark Carney reminds Canadians that values must be strengthened in order to build a better world for all in this\u00a0non-fiction book by the 24th prime minister of Canada,<\/p>\n

7. King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby<\/p>\n

The book’s a gripping roller coaster of dark, suspenseful and dangerous family drama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

8. Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Great Big Beautiful Life, two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"BookBook cover of the novel Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry. (Libby Harding\/London Public Library)<\/p>\n

9. Whistle by Linwood Barclay\u00a0<\/p>\n

American-born Canadian author Linwood Barclay tells a thrilling novel about a woman and her young son who move to a small town looking for a fresh start, only to be haunted by disturbing events and strange visions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TrainWhistle: A novel by American-born Canadian author Linwood Barclay. (Libby Harding\/London Public Library)<\/p>\n

10. Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell\u00a0<\/p>\n

From the number one New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell, she tells the story of three women that are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether it’s reading on the beach, at the cottage, or lounging poolside, summer just cries out for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-57110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}