Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

I want to sit against a tree reading poetry, already deep into Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo, offering a story about water, loss, migration, and humanity. Stevens' work evokes everyday life's romantic essence.

Colin Barrett's Wild Houses noted for funny, lyrical short stories while Kadare's The File on H combines farcical and magnificent elements. Lack of novels on middle-aged women's interiority remarked.

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