

Summer 2018 Reading List
THE HOTTEST BOOK CLUB BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Improvement by Joan Silber
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
CURRENT FICTION
Florida by Lauren Groff
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Phillips
The Map of Salt and Stars by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Sight by Jessie Greengrass
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Memento Park by Mark Sarvas
The Removes by Tatjana Soli
There There by Tommy Orange
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Kudos by Rachel Cusk
LITERARY NON-FICTION
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston
See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary by Lorrie Moore
BOOKS FOR THE BEACH
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick
Varina by Charles Frazier
The Maze at Windermere by Gregory Blake Smith
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT YET
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Never Let Me Go or Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
American Pastoral or The Human Stain or The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
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