LOS ANGELES, Aug 7 — The top seven summer books as voted for by Goodreads members include 1930s period romance “A Hundred Summers” and mind-control conspiracy “Lexicon.”

Pick of the Goodreads’ hive-mind, these seven stories have scooped great critical reviews and remain above the reading community’s 4 star rating watermark.

Follow-up to debut novel “Overseas,” Beatriz Williams’s Rhode Island holiday novel “A Hundred Summers” is ideal material for readers tickled by the “Great Gatsby” revival who are in the market for something a little more romantic.

Meanwhile, “Lexicon,” the fifth from Max Barry, proposes a world in which poets sculpt mental landscapes, controlled by a secret society, while two unlikely outsiders attempt to dismantle the cultural mindtrap.

Also deemed cream of the Goodreads crop were spy novel “Red Sparrow” by Jason Matthews, action-packed pirate rollercoaster “Cinnamon and Gunpowder” by Eli Brown, Susanna Kearsley’s art history romance “The Firebird,” Gavin Extence’s Vonnegut-referencing coming-of-age tale “The Universe Versus Alex Woods” and the apartheid-era “White Dog Fell from the Sky” by Eleanor Morse. – AFP-Relaxnews