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There’s nothing quite like the simple pleasure of getting stuck into a good book. From TikTok bookshelf tours, sad girls books and the Brontë Bros (a.k.a Timothée Chalamet and Jacob Elordi), Marc Jacobs and his reading hour or Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club, if you didn’t already know, reading is cool again. Or, as Kaia Gerber said earlier this year, ‘reading is so sexy’.
A whopping 669 million physical books were sold in the UK last year, the highest overall level ever recorded, and visits to libraries are up 71 percent. Spotted on morning commutes, sprawled across a bench and reclining in a deck chair, there’s no hotter accessory than a paperback this summer.
But which books are Londoners loving the most this season? Photographer Orlando Gili took to the streets to find out. Here’s what he found, from Graham Swift and Ali Hazelwood to Richard Osman.
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
To Kill the Truth by Sam Bourne
The Machine Stops and Other Stories by EM Forster
Aquinas Among the Protestants by Manfred Syensson and David VanDrunen
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J Maas
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else by David Balzer
The Last Devil To Die by Richard Osman
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
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For more Orlando Gili photography on Time Out, check out his snaps of elated Taylor Swift fans on the first night of the Eras tour in London and these shots capturing the fading world of Smithfield’s midnight meat market.
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