Shelf Indulgence: Summer Reading Guide

☀️A Vibe-Based Guide to your Summer Reading List - whether you're beach-bound, lakeside, poolside, or passport-ready.☀️

It’s here. Finally.
The Summer Reading Guide I’ve been teasing (read: overthinking) has officially landed. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But if I waited for perfect, you’d be flipping through this in a sweater with a PSL in hand.

Remember those school-issued summer reading lists? The ones that hung over your head all summer while you read literally everything else? Yeah—this is not that.

And I get it. You’re probably thinking, Not another summer reading list. Totally fair—my feed is overflowing too.

But this isn’t a regular guide. It’s a vibe guide.

Welcome to Shelf Indulgence—a seasonal magazine built for mood readers and vibe chasers. This isn’t about hitting the literary canon. It’s about picking your next read based on how you want to feel—sun-drenched, spooked, swept away, or all of the above.

Inside Volume One, you’ll find:

📚 A featured book for each vibe—favorites I keep thinking about.

🧁 Cupcakes to match (yes, with recipes!)

🎶 Playlists to set the tone.

🕯️Candle recs for the atmosphere

💬 Favorite quotes worth underlining.

📖 My own (highly unrealistic) summer TBR

Most of these books were published in 2024 or earlier, which means you’ll likely find them at your library, on Libby, secondhand, or even on KU.

So go ahead—consider this your unofficial summer syllabus and a completely valid excuse to ignore your to-do list: “Sorry, I have to finish my summer reading” is the new mantra.

You can download it or flip through digitally—both are free. (And if you go digital, the playlists and recipes are just a click away.)

Summer Reading Guide

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Now tell me... which vibe is calling your name?

Happy reading,

P.S. No judgment if you just came for the cupcakes.