12 Excellent Summer Reads

by Jessica Knoll

Dizzying and overwrought but salaciously entertaining nonetheless. Full review >

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by David Sedaris

Sedaris at his darkest—and his best. Full review >

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by Joe Mungo Reed

Fast and smart, funny and sad, this is an outstanding sports novel, and Reed is an author to watch. Full review >

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by Elisabeth Cohen

Clever, original, and unabashedly silly fun. Full review >

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by Megan Abbott

In Abbott’s deft hands, friendship is fused to rivalry, and ambition to fear, with an unsettling level of believability. It... Full review >

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by Jen Beagin

Singularly enjoyable. Full review >

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by Melissa Broder

A fascinating tale of obsession and erotic redemption told with black humor and biting insight. Full review >

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by Jonathan French

An addictively readable—and undeniably cool—fantasy masterwork. Full review >

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by Anthony Horowitz

Though the impatient, tightfisted, homophobic lead detective is impossible to love, the mind-boggling plot triumphs over its... Full review >

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by Laura Lippman

Plotty, page-turning pleasure plus instructions on how to make a perfect grilled cheese sandwich and how to stab a man in... Full review >

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by Ruth Ware

Expertly paced, expertly crafted. Full review >

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by Beatriz Williams

With just the right touch of bitters, Williams (Cocoa Beach, 2017, etc.) mixes a satisfyingly tempestuous—and eminently... Full review >

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