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There’s something relaxing and peaceful about lounging beside the cool waters of a beautiful swimming pool with your favourite new book. It’s the perfect way to unwind after a busy week while soaking up some sun. With warm weather here, it’s a great time to start picking out books for summer, although it can sometimes be challenging finding the right book. To help with this endeavour, we’ve compiled a list of some the top books for summer reading… and many of them have a pool theme!

Swimming Pool Books

• Summer House with Swimming Pool: A suspenseful novel by New York Times bestselling author Herman Koch. This controversial book with acute psychological insight is perfect for those who enjoy thrillers.
• Relentless Spirit: The Unconventional Raising of a Champion: Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlete and a happy and confident woman, something they accomplished by doing things their own way and making the right choices for their family.
• Swimming Studies: A collection of autobiographical sketches that explore the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager, to meditative swims in pools and oceans as an adult, Leanne Shapton contemplates the sport that has shaped her life.
• The Three-Year Swim Club by Julie Checkoway: The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.
• The Swimming Drill Book by Ruben Guzman: Improve your times by improving your technique! Whether you are a competitive swimmer, coach, triathlete, or dedicated fitness enthusiast, The Swimming Drill Book will propel you to better results by maximising efficiency in the water.

Other Top Books You Can’t Put Down

• A House for Happy Mothers by Amulya Malladi: Two women connect through the Happy Mothers House, a “baby farm” where surrogates carry children for wealthy couples. Each woman must put her trust in the other to make her dreams come try.
• Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave: This World War II novel follows 18-year-old Mary North, a fiercely independent aristocrat determined to do her part to help the war, despite what her family thinks about her actions. Caught in a love triangle, Mary must do whatever she can survive love and war.
• Into the Water: By author of the big hit Girl on the Train, this psychological thriller by Paul Hawkins is a must-read about a woman found drowned in a river in England.
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson: This bestselling book is perfect for science-enthusiasts. A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the laws that govern the universe.
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shatterly: Read the book behind the Academy Award nominated movie – The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.

Start now looking for the perfect summer reading so you can be relaxing pool-side with a great book! If you don’t yet own a pool, it’s not too late to be swimming, or relaxing with books while the warm weather is still in full swing. Contact Leisure Pools today on 1300 SPLASH and Get Swimming in Quality and Style.