They have to be engaging enough to keep you awake but lowkey enough to read that if you do doze, you can find your place and pick up the narrative again with ease. And certainly, they have to be relatively cozy, relatively sunny, or at least not emotionally devastating, to match the mood. In other words, they have to be a fun time. With all that in mind, I’ve picked nine books here that I think are the perfect books to read in a hammock, while swaying in the wind and enjoying the weather.

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