Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, Pamela Colloff, and more: 20 new books out today!
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The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy. There’s a multitude of nonfiction as well, such as Pamela Colloff’s
The July fiction continues: Julie Buntin’s much anticipated follow-up to Marlena is out today, Sigrid Nunez’s new collection drops, along with Jem Calder’s I Want You To Be Happy. There’s a multitude of nonfiction as well, such as Pamela Colloff’s true crime investigation and Lucy Schiller’s deep-dive into aging in America. Have a great reading week!
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Sigrid Nunez, It Will Come Back to You: The Collected Stories
(Riverhead)
“Nunez injects these stories with a deep tenderness and a wry sense of humor, all the while challenging our conceptions of what it means to live an ordinary life.”
, Harpers 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.”
, Harpers
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.”
, Harpers 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 delicious entertaining … A history full of brio and bluster and plenty of wonderful nocturnal stories.”
, Booklist
Oana Aristide, Astronaut!
(W. W. Norton)
“Oana Aristide’s skill as a storyteller glimmers in every deftly navigated twist and turn, and introduces us to remarkable characters in the grip of a tired totalitarianism they may (they hope) finally be able to put 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