Summer reading recommendations

James Islington, The Will of the Many 

Roberta Mazza, Stolen Fragments

—Recommended by Elena Dugan

Jon Chu, Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

Liza Talusan, Identity-Conscious Practice In Action: Shaping Equitable Schools and Classrooms 

Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow, Say The Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice

Devorah Heitner, Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World

—Recommended by Aya Murata

Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down

Carlos Cuauhtemoc Sanchez, A Desperate Cry

Robin Sharma, The Greatness Guide: 101 Lessons for Making What's Good at Work and in Life Even Better

Raquel Quezada, ADHD Trauma and Purpose: An Interwoven Journey

—Recommended by Nikky Gonzalez

Kate Fagan, What Made Maddy Run

Katie Steele and Tiffany Brown, The Price She Pays

Linda Flanagan, Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids Sports 

Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

Robin Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Lauren Fleshman, Good for a Girl

Des Linden, Choosing to Run

Lisa See, Lady Tan's Circle of Women

Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year

—Recommended by Lisa Joel

Suleika Jaouad, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life 

—Recommended by Comfort Halsey Leckerling

Francine Mathews, Death in the Off-Season 

Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls 

Hannah McKinnon, The Darlings

Beatriz Williams, The Beach at Summerly 

Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These 

Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

—Recommended by Emma Lavoie

Raphaelle Giordano, Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One 

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

Holly Kennedy, The Sideways Life Of Denny Voss

Julio Vincent Gambuto, Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!

Evie Woods, The Lost Bookshop

Mary Pipher, Women Rowing North

John Kenney, I See You've Called In Dead

—Recommended by Amalia Lisauskas

Richard Powers, Playground

Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark

—Recommended by Lisa Foster

Dan Epstein, Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s

Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

—Recommended by Robert Briggs

Sarah Viren, To Name the Bigger Lie 

Jane Gardam, The Flight of the Maidens 

Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries

Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

—Recommended by Sara Erdmann

Lisa Wingate, The Book of Lost Friends 

Squire Rushnell, When God Winks at You

—Recommended by Caroline Meizen

Robert Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 

Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History

Doris Kearns Goodwin, An Unfinished Love Story

—Recommended by Grace Curley

Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures 

Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

Elizabeth Strout, Anything Is Possible

Monica Wood, The One-in-a-Million Boy 

Amor Towles, Demon Copperhead

Robert Dugoni, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell 

Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

James McBride, The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store 

Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

—Recommended by Amy Mabley

Noah Whiteman, Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature's Toxins―From Spices to Vices 

Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest

Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

Ursula K.Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

Phil M. Williams, Fire the Landscaper: How Landscapers, HOAs, and Cultural Norms Are Poisoning Our Properties

Katie Hickman, Brave Hearted: The Women of the American West 

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

—Recommended by Jerry Hagler

Nikki Erlick, The Measure

Julia Alvarez, The Cemetery of Untold Stories

—Recommended by Anthony Lopez

Sean Carroll, From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time 

Daniel T Willingham, Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

—Recommended by Jose Zorrilla

Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage

—Recommended by Adrian Kyle Venzon

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower 

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

—Recommended by Hannah Anderson

Malcolm Gladwell, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

Stanley Tucci, What I Ate in One Year (and other thoughts)

Benjamin Huff, The Tao of Pooh

Warren Zanes, Deliver me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Jeff Pearlman, Football For A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

Fred Kray, Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age 

David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Tim Brown, The Tao of the Backup Catcher: Playing Baseball for the Love of the Game

—Recommended by Chris Capano

Liz Moore, The God of the Woods

R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

Ina Garten, Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Laurie Gilmore, The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

—Recommended by Ei Smith

Yoko Ogawa, Mina’s Matchbox

Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited

Jeff VanderMeer, Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy

—Recommended by Angela Parker

Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson

—Recommended by Patrick Rielly

C. J. Box, Battle Mountain

Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

David Nichols, You Are Here

Melissa L. Sevigny, Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World 

Mac Griswold, I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon

—Recommended by Michael Blake

Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Niall Williams, Time of the Child

Niall Williams, This is Happiness

Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History 

Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

—Recommended by Sherri Hallgren

Carolin Amlinger and Oliver Nachtwey, Offended Freedom: The Rise of Libertarian Authoritarianism

Omri Boehm, Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel 

Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber 

Simon Critchley, Mysticism

John Guillory, On Close Reading

Han Kang, Human Acts: A Novel

Samantha Harvey, Orbital: A Novel

Ron Padgett, Pink Dust: Poems

Orlando Reade, What In Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost 

Charles Taylor, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment

—Recommended by John Bird

Derek Bok, Attacking the Elites: What Critics Get Wrong—and Right—About America’s Leading Universities

Leslie Butler, Consistent Democracy: The “Woman Question” and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity

Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America 

Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society

—Recommended by David Fox