Editors over at The Millions are staying true to their publication’s name with their whopping list of 130 new books to read this summer. With help from editors over at Publishers Weekly, The Millions has compiled a list that is full of buzzy fiction, biting nonfiction, translated psychological thrillers, and more.
Below is a sampling of the list, which has a little bit of everything for every kind of summer reader.
Memoir and other Nonfiction
Every Inch a Lady by Audrey Smaltz
Data Empire by Roopika Risam
Our Knives Will Save Us by Nephi Craig
The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin
Journey to Nowhere by Shiva Naipaul
Unsayable: A Life in Writing by Michael Cunningham
Hiroshima, 8:15 by Kiyoshi Tanimoto
The People’s Historian by Dave Zirin
Fiction
A Quiet Place by Seichō Matsumoto, trans. by Louise Heal Kawai
Famous Men by Julie Bunti
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw
The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar
Bedlam by Jennifer Higgie
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray
It Will Come Back to You by Sigrid Nunez
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
Suffer a Witch by Joy McCullough
Kitten by Stacey Yu
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