Dear Reader,

 

Welcome to my 2022 Hot Girl Summer Reading! This is a summer reading list for the girlies, gays, and theys! Since it’s summertime and no one likes homework (and summer reading should be a little lazy) you will notice a good deal of these prompts are bonus ones! Don’t worry there’s a total of 28 prompts in case you really want to challenge this summer (but only 15 are compulsory). You’ll notice that this challenge extends from March until September, this is because I wanted to include Spring in the challenge and give you guys a little head start on summer reading. You'll either get the opportunity to tackle your TBR or add even more to it. 

 

I've added many books to each prompt to give you some options, but you're more than welcome to read whatever book you want to fulfill the prompt requirements! I tried to steer clear of the more popular authors and books that are found on BookTok/Bookstagram or just big name books (the exception of course would be the BookTok prompt!). I also tried to be as inclusive as I could and collected books that represented (and were written by) LGBTQIA+, plus-sized, BIPOC, and disabled characters, but feel free to add your own recommendations to make the challenge as inclusive as possible. A lot of these books are ones I'd read if I could, but for the most part, they're books I haven't read, so they're not recommendations from me, but ones I found to fit the criteria for the prompts. That being said, some of these books could be terrible, and some of them could be problematic (which I tried really hard to sus out but I went through over 400 books). I tried to only include books that had a rating of 3.30 or higher just to be sure, but that's no guarantee. They’re mostly there to give you an idea of what the prompt is looking for and to help you if you’re having trouble choosing something. 

 

Keep in mind that there's ALOT of crossovers with the books I've added, therefore there may be smut in some of the books not in the spicy prompt (i.e. Turn the Heat Up) and there may be some books that handle difficult topics outside of the more serious prompts. And unless the prompt strictly states it's YA, it's possible that there are YA, NA, or smutty books in any of the other prompts (for instance, there's likely to be YA and NA and smut in the romance-related prompts), so always check a book and its trigger warnings before reading. But if you see a book in one prompt that could satisfy another prompt, feel free to use it! 

 

 

 

Happy Reading! And enjoy the summer vibes! 

 

 

Love, 

Rose

 

 

 

 

These are the prompts:

 *These are the bonus prompts!

 

Also check out the other challenges I've been working on:

 

 

*Please note that some of these books have recent release dates (though I tried to only add books that were released before the start of the challenge!) 

**As a younger millennial, a lot of these books are written for the 20-30 year old demographic, but I made sure to add some books for our younger and more mature hot girlies! 

***If you’re doing my 2022 Ultimate Reading Challenge you’ll notice a few of the prompts are the same for my summer challenge, feel free to use the same book for the same prompts and take the opportunity to read another book!