Cover of We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han
Romance · first published 2011

We'll Always Have Summer

by Jenny Han

★ Top 10 book of 2011 · #9 on Best Books of 2011

Two years after Conrad urged her to choose Jeremiah, Belly finds her relationship with him falling short of her hopes. After a serious betrayal, she must decide where her heart truly belongs.

Best for: Readers wanting a love triangle and college-age heartbreak in a summery series finale

We'll Always Have Summer is #9 on BookWard's Best Books of 2011, out of 53 2011 books that cleared our data bar.

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#9on Best Books of 2011
80BookWard year score
1,599Open Library readers
4.1 ★39 ratings
104reading it now

What We'll Always Have Summer is about

Two summers ago, Conrad told Belly to choose Jeremiah, and she did. Since then the two have barely been apart, and they now share a college campus. But the life Belly pictured has not come together the way she hoped. Jeremiah makes the worst mistake a boy can make, and it leaves her doubting what she took for true love and whether a future with him is possible at all. It also stirs an older question she thought was settled: did she ever really move on from Conrad? Jenny Han's 2011 novel follows Belly as she works toward an answer about whom her heart truly belongs to. It is a story about love, betrayal and the weight of choosing, and it suits readers who have followed this triangle from the start.

We'll Always Have Summer on the Best Books of 2011

We'll Always Have Summer came out in 2011. Of the 53 books first published in 2011 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #9 on our Best Books of 2011 list.

Why it made the list: 1,599 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.1 out of 5 (39 ratings); 104 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.

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The numbers behind it

  • Readers: 1,430 want to read it, 104 are reading it now and 65 have read it, according to Open Library.
  • Ratings: 4.1 out of 5 from 39 Open Library ratings.
SignalThis book (0 to 100)Weight
Reach8955%
Reader love5725%
Being read right now8520%

Questions about We'll Always Have Summer

When was We'll Always Have Summer published?

We'll Always Have Summer by Jenny Han was first published in 2011.

Was We'll Always Have Summer one of the best books of 2011?

We'll Always Have Summer is #9 on BookWard's Best Books of 2011, out of 53 2011 books that cleared our data bar. 1,599 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.1 out of 5 (39 ratings); 104 are reading it right now.

Why is We'll Always Have Summer on the Best Books of 2011 list?

1,599 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.1 out of 5 (39 ratings); 104 are reading it right now.

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