The RELEVANT Summer 2026 Reading Guide

Something shifts in summer. The news doesn’t stop — it never does anymore — but there’s a particular quality to a June afternoon that makes you want to put the phone down. Not scroll Instagram stories about the apocalypse. Not doomscroll into a 37-part thread. Read something. A real thing, with pages.This summer also happens to be an unusually good moment to be a reader. Between a wave of breakout literary fiction, a couple of faith books that are already changing the conversation, a