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The 32 Best Books to Read This Summer

best books

• Motherhood by Sheila Heti 

• The Pisces by Melissa Broder

• Sorority by Genevieve Sly Crane 

• Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb 

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 

• Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo

• The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll 

• Some Trick by Helen DeWitt 

• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang 

• Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg

• Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt 

• The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong

• Kudos by Rachel Cusk 

• Tonight I\'m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson

• Sick by Porochista Khakpour 

• Florida by Lauren Groff 

• The Terrible by Yrsa Daley-Ward

• Who Is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht 

• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

• Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 

• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes 

• The Ambition Decisions by Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace 

• Can You Tolerate This? by Ashleigh Young 

• No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol 

• My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

• I Can\'t Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux 

• Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win by Jo Piazza 

• The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon 

• The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg 

• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga

• Open Me by Lisa Locascio

• A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua