It's officially hot book summer... get your beach reads here

Summer is here… and for lots of locals, that means digging into their reading list.

Whether it’s time on the plane or relaxing on a staycation, the warmer months can be a good time to explore some new books.

We take a trip to Elliott Bay Books on Capitol Hill to check out what’s new and exciting on the shelves.

Elliott Bay Books Book List:

• Jess Walter, So Far Gone
• Peter Benchley, Jaws
• Hampton Sides, The Wide Wide Sea
• Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance
• Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
• The Constitution
• Om El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
• G.T. Karber, Murdle Mystery Puzzles
• Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
• Holly Wilson, Kittentits
• Daniel Mason, Northwoods
• Catherine Newman, Sandwich
• Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife
• Carys Davies, Clear
• Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup
• Miranda July, All Fours
• Margaret Killjoy, The Sapling Cage
• V.E. Schwab, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
• V.E. Schwab, Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• Naomi Novik, Uprooted
• Allison Saft, A Dark and Drowning Tide
• Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
• Travis Baldree, Legends and Lattes
• Ali Hazelwood, Bride
• Kimberly Lemming, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon 

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