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    23 Books Guaranteed To Give You That Summer Feeling

    "The locations alone make you want to pack up and travel all summer long."

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    We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what book always helps to get them in the mood for summer. Here are some of the responses!

    1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

    2. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

    3. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

    4. The Last Summer of Us by Maggie Harcourt

    5. The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

    6. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

    7. Paper Towns by John Green

    8. The Assistants by Camille Perri

    9. Jaws by Peter Benchley

    10. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

    11. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

    12. On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

    13. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

    14. Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

    15. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

    16. The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

    17. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    18. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

    19. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

    20. A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

    21. The Stand by Steven King

    22. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

    23. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

    Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.

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