Every Book I Read This Summer

3 months. No interruptions.


Here is a list of all the good stuff (everything in bold is a MUST read):

Memoirs

  • Educated by Tara Westover

  • See No Stranger by Valerie Jaur

  • Low Country by J. Nicole Jones

  • Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

  • Being Heumann by Judith Heumann




Literary Fiction

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney

  • Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn

  • The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

  • The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanigahara

  • Lakewood by Megan Giddings

  • House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

  • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

  • My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  • The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh




Series/YA

  • Chilrden of Virtue and Vengenace by Toni Adeyemi

  • City of Brass by S.A Chakraborty

  • The Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

  • Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

  • Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

  • Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

  • The Fifth Season by N.K Jemison




Essays and Poetry

  • Grocery List Poems by Rhiannon McGavin

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Bluets by Maggie Nelson

  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion




Black Studies

  • We Do This ‘Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba

  • We Will Not Cancel Us by adrienne maree brown

  • 400 Souls by Ibrahim Kendi

  • Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

  • We Have Not Been Moved by Elizabeth Betita Martinez




Policy Studies

  • An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz

  • In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto by Michael Pollan

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