Memorial Day has come and gone, marking the unofficial beginning of summer—and here in the seasonless internet, marking the official beginning of Summer Content. Accordingly, plenty of publications have come out with lists of must-read summer books in the past couple of weeks. But how can you know which one to trust? If you have faith in critical consensus, look no further. (If you don’t, well, you may be interested anyway.) To figure out which books people are most excited about this summer, I looked through 28 summer preview lists—which recommended a grand total of 437 distinct titles, and which were mostly not limited to books actually being published over the next few months—and tracked which books appeared most often. Below is a list of everything that was recommended at least twice, in descending order of popularity. If nothing else, it’s a place to start.

11 mentions:

Lauren Groff, Florida

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9 mentions:

Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place For Us

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7 mentions:

Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister

R. O. Kwon, The Incendiaries

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6 mentions:

Bill Clinton and James Patterson, The President is Missing

Madeline Miller, Circe

Tommy Orange, There There

David Sedaris, Calypso

Ruth Ware, The Death of Mrs. Westaway

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5 mentions:

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Fruit of the Drunken Tree

Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

Christine Mangan, Tangerine

Allison Pearson, How Hard Can It Be

Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy

Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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4 mentions:

Judy Blundell, The High Season

Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire

Rachel Cusk, Kudos

Christina Dalcher, Vox

Emily Giffin, All We Ever Wanted

Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

Lillian Li, Number One Chinese Restaurant

Carola Lovering, Tell Me Lies

Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

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3 mentions:

Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

Tara Isabella Burton, Social Creature

Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel

Aja Gabel, The Ensemble

Roxane Gay, Not That Bad

Keith Gessen, A Terrible Country

Vanessa Hua, A River of Stars

Maria Hummel, Still Lives

Dave Itzkoff, Robin

Ling Ma, Severance

Paula McLain, Love and Ruin

James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin

Michael Ondaatje, Warlight

Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Joe Mungo Reed, We Begin Our Ascent

Susie Orman Schnall, The Subway Girls

Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I’ll Say It

Anne Tyler, Clock Dance

Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

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2 mentions:

Megan Abbott, Give Me Your Hand

Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

Renée Ahdieh, Smoke in the Sun

Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother

Michael Arceneaux, I Can’t Date Jesus

Kimberly Bell, Three Days Missing

Aliette de Bodard, The Tea Master and the Detective

Alice Bolin, Dead Girls

Christopher Bonanos, Flash

Melissa Broder, The Pisces

Kim Brooks, Small Animals

Michael Chabon, Pops

Patrick Chamoiseau, trans. Linda Coverdale, Slave Old Man

Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

Georgia Clark, The Bucket List

Elisabeth Cohen, The Glitch

James Comey, A Higher Loyalty

Sloane Crosley, Look Alive Out There

Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible

Tsitsi Dangarembga, The Mournable Body

Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Helen DeWitt, Some Trick

Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach

Heid E. Erdrich, ed., New Poets of Native Nations

Gaël Faye, Small Country

Kelly Forsythe, Perennial

Dorothea Benton Frank, By Invitation Only

Patricia Hampl, The Art of the Wasted Day

Elin Hilderbrand, The Perfect Couple

Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I’m Someone Else

A. M. Homes, Days of Awe

Samantha Hunt, The Seas

Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon

Samantha Irby, Meaty

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

Carolyn Kepnes, Providence

Porochista Khakpour, Sick

Rosalie Knecht, Who Is Vera Kelly?

R. F. Kuang, The Poppy War

Amitava Kumar, Immigrant, Montana

Robert Kurson, Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man’s First Journey to the Moon

Catherine Lacey, Certain American States

Stephen Markley, Ohio

Michelle Markowitz, Caroline Moss, Hey Ladies!

Morgan Matson, Save the Date

Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

Michelle McNamara, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, Tiny Crimes

Lydia Millet, Fight No More

Lorrie Moore, See What Can Be Done

Andrew Morton, Meghan: A Hollywood Princess

Chris Nashawaty, Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story

Nell Irvin Painter, Old in Art School

Gregory Pardlo, Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America

Richard Powers, The Overstory

Todd S. Purdum, Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution

Alissa Quart, Squeezed

Richard Ratay, Don’t Make Me Pull Over!

Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Nell Scovell, Just the Funny Parts . . . and a Few Hard Truths About Sneaking into the Hollywood Boys’ Club

Mimi Schwartz, Ticker

Peng Shepherd, The Book of M

Gregory Blake Smith, The Maze at Windermere

Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

Angie Thomas, On the Come Up

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People

Raymond A. Villareal, A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising

Ryan H. Walsh, Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968

Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, The Girl Who Smiled Beads

Lauren Weisberger, When Life Gives You Lululemons

Beatriz Williams, The Summer Wives

Leni Zumas, Red Clocks

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Sources Consulted:

Glamour‘s “The 17 Best Books to Read This Summer“; The Washington Post‘s “The 39 Books We’re Talking About This Summer“; The New York Times‘s “17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer“; TIME‘s “22 New Books to Read This Summer“; Bloomberg’s “10 Books for a Summer Reading List“; Refinery 29’s “Brilliant Books To Bring To The Beach This Summer“; NYLON’s “46 Great Books To Read This Summer“; Esquire‘s “The 20 Smart Books You’ll Want To Read at the Beach This Summer“; Publishers Weekly’s “Staff Picks Summer 2018“; Chicago Tribune‘s “25 Hot Books for Summer“; Town&Country‘s “16 Books to Read This Summer“; Goodreads’s “The Hottest Books of Summer“; Bustle’s “32 New Fiction Books Coming Out This Summer That You’ll Definitely Want In Your Travel Bag“; Newsday‘s “Best Summer Books 2018“; Newsweek‘s “The 50 Coolest Books to Read This Summer“; Parade‘s “The Top 26 Hottest Books of Summer 2018“; Journal Sentinel’s “85 Books for Summer Reading“; Vanity Fair‘s “Summer Reading: This Season’s Ultimate Fiction List“; Condé Nast Traveler’s “10 Best Summer Reads of 2018“; USA Today’s “10 Hot Books for Summer Reading“; New York Post‘s “The 20 Best Reads for Your Summer Break“; The Daily Beast’s “The Best Summer Beach Reads of 2018“; WIRED‘s “12 Books You Must Read This Summer“; Good Morning America’s “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer“; Chicago Magazine‘s “10 New Books for Your Summer Reading List“; PopSugar’s “This Summer’s Hottest New Books For Every Type of Reader“; Good Housekeeping‘s “The 25 Best New Books for Summer 2018“; BuzzFeed’s “30 Summer Books To Get Excited About“.