Friday Five – National Hamburger Day Edition

This Monday is both Memorial Day and National Hamburger Day. While you are enjoying time with your loved ones, check out these awesome author media hits for the week. We think you’re going to need a bigger beach bag for all these great summer books.

Katherine Center , author of How to Walk Away, was interviewed on USA Today‘s Happy Ever After.

The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll was named a best new book by People magazine.

My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows; Sea Witch by Sarah Henning; Who Are You, Trudy Herman? by B.E. Beck; and The Leaving Year by Pam McGaffin were picked as exciting summer YA reads by POPSUGAR. 

Celebs are lining up to read The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll according to People.

How Hard Can It Be? by Allison Pearson was featured as a refreshing summer read by The New York Times.

Kristina Perez revealed the cover of The Tesla Legacy with Hypable.

Emily Giffin, author of All We Ever Wanted, was called a “hottest book of summer” in a Goodreads blog post.

Megan Abbott, author of Give Me Your Hand, was named a “crime fiction read to heat up your summer” by The Chicago Tribune.

Jessica Knoll, author of The Favorite Sister,  and Camille Perri, author of When Kate Met Cassidy, were featured as best books of summer by Glamour.

BookBub selected The Subway Girls by Susie Schnall as a great historical fiction book coming out this summer.

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, Unwifeable by Mandy Stadtmiller, The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll, When the Beat Drops by Anna Hecker, Trouble the Water by Jacqueline Friedland, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid were spotlighted as great reads for Memorial Day weekend by Brit + Co. 

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering, The Subway Girls by Susie Schnall and The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll were selected as brilliant books to bring to the beach by Refinery 29. 

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering, Unwifeable by Mandy Stadtmiller, and She Regrets Nothing by Andrea Dunlop were highlighted as exciting new books with pink covers by Bustle.

Melissa Scholes Young, author of Flood, shared her book picks with She Reads.

Bookish shared an exclusive excerpt from Kelli Clare‘s book Hidden. 

Jessica Knoll, author of The Favorite Sister, shared with Girlboss about how it is time to stop pitting women against each other.

Mindy Tarquini, author of The Infinite Now, was interviewed by National Book Critics Circle.

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center and The Subway Girls by Susie Schnall were named books for your beach bag by The Perpetual Page Turner.