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Best reads for your summer vacation

Summer's must-read books 04:03

(CBS News) On the beach, at a mountain cabin, or just relaxing in the back yard, summer vacation offers the time to enjoy a good book.

But don't what to pick? Check out some of the season's best page-turners, as recommended on "CBS This Morning: Saturday" by Sara Nelson, editorial director of Books and Kindle for Amazon.com.

Nelson's Summer Reading List:

  • "The English Girl," Daniel Silva (Harper)
  • "Coming Clean," Kimberly Rae Miller (Amazon Publishing)
  • "The Silent Wife," A.S.A Harrison (Penguin)
  • "The Shining Girls," Lauren Beukes (Mulholland Books)
  • "The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells," Andrew Sean Greer (Ecco)
  • "I Wear the Black Hat," Chuck Klosterman (Scribner)

Honorable Mentions:

  • "The Lost Girls," Jennifer Baggett (Harper Perennial)
  • "Visitation Street," Ivy Pochoda (Dennis Lehane Books/Ecco)
  • "The Husbands Secret," Liane Moriartys (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
  • "My Education," Susan Choi (Viking Adult)
  • "Night Film," Marisha Pessl (Random House)
  • "The Ocean at the End of the Lane," Neal Gaiman (William Morrow)
  • "The Son," Philipp Meyer (Ecco)

Watch what Nelson had to say about some of these books in the video above.

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