This July’s lineup of fiction arrives with high anticipation: Julie Buntin’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Marlena lands on shelves today, while Sigrid Nunez unveils a fresh collection and Jem Calder offers I Want You To Be Happy. Nonfiction also abounds, including Pamela Colloff’s investigative true-crime work and Lucy Schiller’s in-depth look at aging in the United States. Happy reading ahead!
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Sigrid Nunez, It Will Come Back to You: The Collected Stories (Riverhead)
“Nunez infuses these tales with a quiet tenderness and a sly humor, continually probing what it means to live an ordinary life.” –Harper’s Bazaar
Julie Buntin, Famous Men (Random House)
“Haunting and knife-bright, Famous Men renders womanhood with unsettling clarity and reckons with the absolute ache of becoming.” –Kiley Reid
Pamela Colloff, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf)
“Incendiary, emotionally devastating. [This] is a feat of dogged reporting, bravura storytelling, and clear-eyed moral conscience.” –Patrick Radden Keefe
Jem Calder, I Want You to Be Happy (FSG)
“An irresistible novel that asks complex questions about contemporary life and refuses easy answers. I couldn’t stop reading.” –Sally Rooney
Catherine Ostler, The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal (Atria)
“Profoundly moving … With consummate skill and impressive research, Ostler tells the story.” –Daily Mail
Nathaniel Rich, Cloudthief (MCD)
“[A] rambunctious, thoroughly entertaining heist novel.” –Harper’s
Lucy Schiller, Aging Out: An Exploration of Caregiving, Community, and How Americans Grow Old (Flatiron)
“A luminous work of nonfiction reportage woven into a spiritual autobiography—a meditation on time, loss, and love.” –Richard Preston
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Intrigue (Del Rey)
“A pulpy noir–telenovela mashup that would make James M. Cain jealous.” –Los Angeles Times
Alyssa Shelasky, Sex Diaries: Real-life Stories of Non-Monogamy and Polyamory (Random House)
“An absolute gift—not just for the polycurious, but for anyone interested in relationships, desire, and the raw beauty of human vulnerability.” –Molly Roden Winter
Catherine Cho, The Devoted (Washington Square Press)
“Cho’s writing is sensuous, with a transportive quality that draws readers into the world of her characters with immediacy.” –Library Journal
Nephi Craig, Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches From a White Mountain Apache Chef (Penguin Press)
“A poignant ode to reclaiming one’s culture.” –Publishers Weekly
Ryan Effgen, Make Nice (Knopf)
“Engaging and charming, perfect for your own summer vacation.” –Elin Hilderbrand
Lauren Collins, They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coop and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy (Penguin Press)
“An excellent new history out this summer that considers how the past lives in the present.” –Harper’s Bazaar
Stephanie Soileau, Should the Waters Take Us (Doubleday)
“Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking scenes, fascinating time jumps, and a setting so precisely rendered that it’s palpable.” –Patrick Ryan
Dan Werb, Our Wild Familiars: How Animals Are Adapting to Cities and Reshaping the Natural World (Crown)
“Dazzling insights into the cohabitants of our daily lives.” –Kirkus
Emily Doyle, Please Don’t Touch the Body (Bloomsbury)
“Doyle blends humor and the bewildering with more emotionally sobering stories in her debut collection.” –Alta
Elizabeth H. Winthrop, Conviction (Grove)
“This potent novel about prejudice and the constraints of challenging the status quo will move and captivate readers.” –Publishers Weekly
Imogen Willetts, Up All Night: A World History of Nightlife (Grove)
“Gloriously overstuffed and deliciously entertaining … A history brimming with energy, bravado, and plenty of nocturnal storytelling.” –Booklist
Oana Aristide, Astronaut! (W. W. Norton)
“Oana Aristide’s skill as a storyteller glimmers in every deftly navigated twist and turn, introducing us to remarkable characters caught in the grip of a weary totalitarianism they may (they hope) finally lay to rest.” –Jennifer Croft
Christian Kracht, trans. by Daniel Bowles, Air (Liveright)
“You read Kracht for the experience of reading him. You read him and wonder.” –Nell Zink
