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w h a t d o I want to read
t h i s s u mmer ?
these are the hottest books of the summer
We've picked out all the best books coming out -- in all genres -- just for you!
Everything on this list is being released in June, July or August. Books that are not yet released have their release date noted. We also threw in a few of our summery backlist favorites. Happy reading!
H O T new fiction
Parade
Rachel Cusk
Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu
7/30
Whoever You Are, Honey
Olivia Gatwood
7/9
Hombrecito
Santiago Jose Sanchez
Little Rot
Akwaeke Emezi
Catalina
Karla Cornejo
Villavicencio
7/23
The Lion Women of Tehran
Marjan Kamali
7/2
Fire Exit
Morgan Talty
H O T n e w
n o n f i c t i o n
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
8/20
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Olivia Laing
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV Emily Nussbaum
Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities With Palestine ed. Mahdi Sabbagh
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Tiya Miles
The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Boyce Upholt
The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
Clara Bingham 7/30
Backlist favorites
Hot Milk
Deborah Levy
Summer Solstice
Nina MacLaughlin
The Wedding
Dorothy West
The Leopard Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Zone One
Colson Whitehead Talk Linda Rosenkrantz
P o e t r y
Bluff Danez Smith 8/20
If Today Were Tomorrow Humberto Ak’abal, trans. Michael Bazzett
The Murmuring Grief of the Americans Daniel Borzutzky 8/22
Holy Winter Maria Stepanova, trans. Sasha Dugdale 8/13
Literature in Translation
Mammoth
Eva Balthasar, trans. Julia Sanches
8/6
Mourning a Breast
Xi Xi, trans. Jennifer Feeley
7/9
Time of the Flies
Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Frances Riddle
8/6
Mina’s Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa, trans.
Stephen B. Snyder
8/13
Ten Juan Emar, trans.
Megan McDowell
8/13
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Yoko Tawada, trans.
Susan Bernofsky
7/9
The Son of Man
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, trans. Frank Wynne
7/16
Elevator in Saigon
Thuân, trans. Nguyen
An Lý
8/6
R o m a n c e
The Pairing
Casey McQuiston
8/6
One-Star Romance
Laura Hankin
Just Playing House
Farah Heron
7/2
Triple Sec
TJ Alexander
A Novel Love Story
Ashley Poston
The Game Changer
Lana Ferguson
7/9
Haunted Ever After
Jen DeLuca
8/13
Frequent Fliers
Noué Kirwan
8/13
Sci-fi & Fantasy
The Bright Sword
Lev Grossman
7/16 A Sorceress Comes to Call T. Kingfisher
The Phoenix Keeper S. A. MacLean
8/13
8/6
The Book of Elsewhere China Mieville, Keanu Reeves 7/23
The Sunforge Sascha Stronach 8/6 Moonbound Robin Sloan
S p o o k y s t u f f
The Eyes Are the
Best Part
Monika Kim
Middle of the Night
Riley Sagar
Cuckoo
Gretchen Felker-Martin
I Was A Teenage
Slasher
Stephen Graham Jones
7/16
t h i s s u mmer ! thanks, Lost City Books! i h a v e so much to read