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As summer kicks off for many of us, we wanted to share some of our favorite reads of the season! From non-fiction books that help us make progress on our goals to fictional fantasies that allow our imaginations to run wild, we've rounded up Team Cultivate's best summer book recommendations—and we’d love to hear your favorites, too!

P.S. Have you been wanting to cultivate a love for reading but don’t know where to start? Check out our tips to enjoy reading!

If you want to learn something new or work toward a goal, here are some of our non-fiction picks! 

Business Book Recommendations

• Business Made Simple: 60 Days to Master Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Execution, Management, Personal Productivity and More by Donald Miller

• Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz

• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

Spiritual and Personal Growth Book Recommendations

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Insider Outsider: My Journey As a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All by Bryan Loritts

• Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age by Bruce Feiler

• Ten Words to Live By by Jen Wilkin

• The Deeply Formed Life: Five Transformative Values to Root Us in the Way of Jesus by Rich Villodas

• The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer

• We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers

• Woman Evolve: Break Up with Your Fears and Revolutionize Your Life by Sarah Jakes Roberts

Recreation Book Recommendations

• How to Celebrate Everything: Recipes and Rituals for Birthdays, Holidays, Family Dinners, and Every Day In Between: A Cookbook by Jenny Rosenstrach

• Kitchen Garden Revival: A Modern Guide to Creating a Stylish, Small-scale, Low-maintenance, Edible Garden by Nicole Johnsey Burke

• The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines

If you’re looking for a fun summer escape, here are our favorite fiction picks!

Book Recommendations for Historical and Domestic Fiction Fans

• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

• Summer of ’69 by Elin Hilderbrand

• The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett: A Novel by Annie Lyons

• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

• 28 Summers by Elin Hildebrand

Book Recommendations for the Family

• Ambitious Girl by Meena Harris

• Gracie's Garden by our own Lara Casey! :)

• Our Great Big Backyard by Jenna Bush Hager and Laura Bush

• The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be by Joanna Gaines

• When God Made You by Matthew Paul Turner

• Wherever You Go by Pat Zietlow Miller

Classic Beach Reads Recommendations

• Beach Read by Emily Henry

• In Five Years: A Novel by Rebecca Serle

• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

• The Summer Wives: A Novel by Beatriz Williams

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

• The Last Thing He Told Me: A Novel by Laura Dave

For more summer reading suggestions, check out our book recommendations for 2021!

We'd love to hear from you! What books are on your reading list for this summer? Have you read anything that has inspired you to make progress towards your goals? Tell us in the comment section below!