Sarah Michelle Gellar Says 'Forget Brat Summer,' She's Having a ‘Book Summer’ — See What She’s Reading!

The actress shared a selection of books she’s read this summer to Instagram Stories

Sarah Michelle Gellar is embracing the bookworm lifestyle this summer.

The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum, 47, took to Instagram Stories on Aug. 6 to share some of the books she’s recently knocked off her to-be-read list.

“Forget brat summer … I’m having book summer,” the actress wrote in her first post, in reference to the Charli xcx-inspired internet trend. Her first selection was Lisa Unger’s thriller The New Couple in 5B.

Gellar also posted a photo of a stack of books including Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack, Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell, Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll, Only If You’re Lucky by Stacy Willingham and Then She Vanishes by Claire Douglas.

Also in the bunch was the 2024 novel The Husbands by Holly Gramazio, a literary fiction novel about an unmarried woman who suddenly finds an abundance of husbands in her home.

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Gellar also featured multiple books from the same authors — in addition to sharing more novels by Stacy Willigham (A Flicker in the Dark) and Lisa Unger (Christmas Presents), Gellar also read The Inmate and The Teacher by Freida McFadden and Just Like the Other Girls and The Wrong Sister by Claire Douglas.

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Other books Gellar has on her TBR pile included This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter, Restart by Gordon Korman, Untangled by Lisa Damour, Ph.D., Never Enough by Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Home is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose, Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth and The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin.

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Gellar has shared her book recommendations with fans over the years, calling out titles including The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani and The Chosen Ones by Steve Sem-Sandberg.

In a 2022 interview with Apartment Therapy, the actress also said that she’s an avid collector of rare books — some stand-outs amongst her collection are first editions of Dr. Seuss books and the complete collection of works by her favorite illustrator, Arthur Rackham.

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“Collecting first-edition books started for me when I was on Buffy [the Vampire Slayer] once I first started, you know, earning pay checks where I could really spend it on something that was a passion, not just a necessity for myself,” she said. “A lot of our cast got new cars, and for me, it was like, books.”

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