Summer vacation is almost here (thank goodness), and soon everyone’s going to have a lot of free time on their hands. But after you’ve watched Netflix until your eyes are crossed, what will you do with your spare time? So that you won’t have to go hunting around for something to do, here’s a list of books that will take away your boredom and make your summer much more exciting.

Fantasy

● The Dark Divine, Bree Despain

● Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

● Graceling, Kristin Cashore

● The Mortal Instruments/The Infernal Devices, Cassandra Claire

● The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

● Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Rick Riordan

Romance

● Eleanor and Park, Rainbow Rowell

● My Life Next Door, Huntley Fitzpatrick

● The Wolves of Mercy Falls, Maggie Stiefvater

● All the Bright Places, Jennifer Niven

● Why we Broke Up, Daniel Handler

● Anna and the French Kiss, Stephanie Perkins

Science fiction

● The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer

● The Giver, Lois Lowry

● Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix

● Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

● Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer

● Unwind, Neal Shusterman

Thriller and Mystery

● The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

● Confessions of a Murder Suspect, James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

● Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

● The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

● The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

● In the Woods, Tana French

Young Adult Fiction

● Zac and Mia, A. J. Betts

● The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

● Looking For Alaska, John Green

● Identical, Ellen Hopkins

● Breaking Beautiful, Jennifer Shaw Wolf

● Life in Outer Space, Melissa Keil

Dystopian

● Cinder, Novel by Marissa Meyer

● The Maze Runner, James Dashner

● Matched, Ally Condie

● The Selection, Kiera Cass

● Feed, Matthew Tobin Anderson

● Fahrenheit 451, Ray