One of the best things about summer is giving yourself permission to spend entire days—weeks even—doing little more than getting stuck in a towering stack of books. And while there are plenty of new releases out there just begging to be picked up, flipped through, and taken to the beach, this literary season is shaping up to be a particularly stellar one for books by female authors, both up-and-coming and long established. Whether you're looking for a memoir about horse racing in Mongolia or a fictional epic set in the 19th-century American West, there's something out there for every type of reader (and traveler). Keep reading for the best books by women to immerse yourself in this summer.

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