Summer reading recommendations

Klein, Naomi, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror of the World

—Recommended by John Bird, Stephanie Curci, David Fox & Tricia Har

Arnason, Eleanor, Hidden Folk: Icelandic Fantasies

Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition

Lee Geddy, My Effin’ Life

Mantel, Hillary, Wolf Hall

—Recommended by Natalya Baldyga

McGraw, Peter and Joel Warner, The Humor Code

Theroux, Paul, Dark Star Africa

—Recommended by Melanie Poulin

Allende, Isabel, The Wind Knows My Name

Dueñas, María, The Time in Between

Garcia Márquez, Gabriel, See You in August

—Recommended by Carmen Muñoz-Fernández

Beams, Clare, The Garden

D’Erasmo, Stacey, The Complicities

Hsu, Hua, Stay True

Kuang, B. F., Yellowface

Viren, Sarah, To Name the Bigger Lie

—Recommended by Kate McQuade

Rivera Garza, Cristina, Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

—Recommended by Maria Martinez

Box, C. J., Three-Inch Teeth

Boyer, Susan, Lowcountry Boil

DeFede, Jim, The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

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

Riordan, Rick, The Sun and the Star

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

—Recommended by Michael Blake

Eagleman, David, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

—Recommended by Carlota Castillo

Egginton, William, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

—Recommended by John Rogers

Enright, Anne, The Wren, The Wren

Gonzalez, Xochjtl, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Myint, Thirili Myo Kyaw, Names for Light: A Family History

Reed, Shannon, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

Sutano, Jesse, Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Van Pelt, Shelby, Remarkably Bright Creatures

—Recommended by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe

Fortune, Carley, This Summer Will Be Different

Khong, Rachel, Real Americans

Nezhukumatathil, Aimee, Bite by Bite

Robinson, Roxana, Leaving

Sagar, Riley, The Only One Left

—Recommended by Ei Smith

Harper, Kyle, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

Hensley, William, Fifty Miles from Tomorrow

Mullainathan, Sendhil and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having So Little Means So Much

Robinson, Kim Stanley, The Ministry for the Future

—Recommended by Aly Blakeney

Bohannon, Cat, Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Clancy, Kate, Period, The Real Story of Menstruation

—Recommended by Tricia Har

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

Mortimer, Ian, The Time-Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England

Muir, Tamsyn, Gideon the Ninth

—Recommended by Elena Dugan

Kane, Andrew, Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale

Pataki, Allison, Finding Margaret Fuller

—Recommended by Nancy Kashanek

Benedict, Marie and Victoria Christopher Murray, First Ladies

Davis, Fiona, The Spectacular

Foley, Lucy, The Hunting Party

Sagar, Riley, The House Across the Lake

Sagar, Riley, The Only One Left

Williams, Beatriz, Lauren Willig, and Karen White, The Lost Summers of Newport

Williams, Beatriz, The Wicked City

—Recommended by Emma Lavoie

Hall, Rebecca and Hugo Martinez, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Osman, Richard, Thursday Night Murder Club

—Recommended by Stephanie Curci

Alvarez, Julia, The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Caro, Robert, The Power Broker

Notaro, Tig, I Am Just a Person

—Recommended by Grace Curley

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

Higgs, John, Love and Let Die: James Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche

Posnanski, Joe, Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

—Recommended by Robert Briggs

Oshetsky, Claire, Poor Deer

—Recommended by Jessie Robie

Baker, Emerson, The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England

King, Stephen, Salem’s Lot

—Recommended by Donald Slater

Adler, Sarah, Mrs. Nash’s Ashes

Davis, KC, How to Keep House While Drowning

Gottlieb, Lori, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Henry, Emily, Funny Story

Straub, Emma, All Adults Here

—Recommended by Meghan Dangremond

Wang, Jenny, Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans

—Recommended by Aya Murata

Bushmiller, Ernie, Nancy and Sluggo’s Guide to Life

DeWitt, Helen, The English Understated Wool

Esquinca, Bernardo, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

Grabinski, Stefan, The Orchard of the Dead and Other Macabre Tales

Jacoby, Russell, On Diversity: The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era

Mizuki, Shigeru, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths

Murata, Sayaka, Life Ceremony: Stories

Tsuge, Tadao, Trash Market

Walton, Stephen, No Transfer

—Recommended by John Bird

Landers, Jessica, Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas and Inspiration in Immigrant Education

Newman, Catherine, We All Want Impossible Things

Tahir, Sabaa, All My Rage

—Recommended by Laura Warner

Orange, Tommy, Wandering Stories

—Recommended by Richard Gorham

Black, Daniel, Don’t Cry For Me

Choo Yangsze, The Night Tiger

George, Jessica, Maame

Quinn, Kate, The Alice Network

Wingate, Lisa, Before We Were Yours

—Recommended by Ellie Perry

Everett, Percival, James

Kimmerer, Robin, Gathering Moss

Phillips, Adan, Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud

Ward, Jesmyn, Let Us Descend

Zizek, Slavoj, Freedom: A Disease Without a Cure

—Recommended by Tom Kane

Hannah, Kristin, The Great Alone

Lockhard, E., We Were Liars

Parkhurst, Carolyn, The Dogs of Babel

—Recommended by Lauren Mondi

Armah, Esther, Emotional Justice: A Roadmap for Racial Healing

Buruma, Ian, Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah

Israel, Jonathan, Spinoza: Life & Legacy

Martin, Rachel Louise, A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

McRae, Elizabeth, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy

Moyn, Samuel, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

Samuels, Robert and Tolouse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and Struggle for Racial Justice

Shapiro, Scott, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

Stella, Frank, Working Space

Vladeck, Stephen, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

—Recommended by David Fox

Davies, Nick, Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Luchette, Claire, Agatha of Little Neon

Oyeyemi, Helen, Peaces

—Recommended by Angela Parker

Bird, Kai, American Prometheus

Collins, Jim, The Last Best League

Lewis, Michael, Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Pearlman, Jeff, The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

—Recommended by Chris Capano

Dugoni, Robert, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

—Recommended by Kristin Faivre

Diviney, Rich, The Attributes

Fitzgerald, Matt, How Bad Do You Want It

Goggins, David, Can’t Hurt Me

Goggins, David, Never Finished

Voss, Chris, Never Split the Difference

—Recommended by Devin O’Reilly

Ghosh, Amitav, Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Saer, Juan Jose, The Sixty-Five Years of Washington

Yunkaporta, Tyson, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

—Recommended by Paige Roberts

Hanna, Kristin, The Women

Jaouad, Suleika, Between Two Kingdoms

—Recommended by Amalia Lisauskas

Foner, Eric, Fiery Trial

McCurry, Stephanie, Confederate Reckoning

—Recommended by Chris Jones