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Originally Posted by issybird
I haven't read Seventeenth Summer, a lovely book, since I was a girl and listening to it sounds delightful.
I keep running into Megan Abbott as a name and haven't read anything by her, so The End of Everything it is. No horror, though! 
Similarly to Marjorie Morningstar, I also associate To Kill a Mockingbird with summer. Not all the action happened in the summer, but the main thrust of the story did. |
Overdrive has the audiobook of
Seventeenth Summer.
Megan Abbott's first few novels were noir, but now her last three have shifted; she's been writing about teenage girls and the dark side of adolescence--but they're definitely not YA.
The End of Everything was the first of the teenage ones, followed by
Dare Me and
The Fever. I think
Dare Me is the best of the three, but doesn't fit in with your summer theme. (Of the non-teenage ones, I especially like
Bury Me Deep and
Queenpin.)
If you want to sample her writing, "Cheer," Abbott's short story that evolved into
Dare Me, is available online in both a
text version and an
audio version (podcast; story read by the author).
More than you ever wanted to know about Megan Abbott's books, I'm sure!