The east end Toronto silent book club is very fortunate to have a sister silent book club group in midtown Toronto, featured a year ago in this blog post by founder Beth Gordon. The midtown Toronto group is taking a summer hiatus – just from meeting, to be clear, certainly not from reading, especially during a season perfect for some of the most idyllic reading experiences. Before they go offline for a few months, the midtown group members would like to share their latest combined reading list, from which you might find some great summer reads.

• O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker
• The Women of Troy by Pat Barker
• Seven Steeples Sara Baume
• Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
• Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
• The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
• A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
• In a Good Light by Clare Chambers
• The Braid by Laetitia Colombani
• Care Of by Ivan Coyote
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
• Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• The Hole in the Middle by Kate Hilton
• Blue Portugal and Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan/li>
• Palaces for the People – How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
• Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
• Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
• Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
• Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine
• Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym, narrated by Patience Tomlinson (audiobook)
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• All We Shall Know by Donal Ryan, narrated by Sonya Macari (audiobook)
• From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, narrated by Alana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Alan Smyth, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds (audiobook)
• Cluster by Souvankham Thammavongsa
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace

In addition to some great reading suggestions, the midtown group also offers some most excellent settings in which (and reading companions with whom) to enjoy your reading. So, dear readers, get to it!