20 Best Books To Read in June

by Ben Fountain

A comic masterpiece. The current administration is finally getting the book it deserves. Full review >

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by Ruth Ozeki

Tender, mysterious, and moving. Full review >

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by Morgan Thomas

Radically inventive, compassionate, and perspicacious. Compulsively page-turning. Full review >

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by Ann Patchett

An evocative and moving tribute to the death-defying, heart-opening, infinitely redemptive power of storytelling. Full review >

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by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

An unusual, compelling picaresque about a queer Asian woman evading arrest over many years and on several continents. Full review >

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by Monica Datta

A sharp, cross-continental tale of heartbreak and identity. Full review >

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by Maggie O'Farrell

Steeped in Irish history and folklore, alive with a sense of wonder. Full review >

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by Deb Olin Unferth

A quirky, bold, and endearing masterpiece of climate fiction. Full review >

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by Kevin Powers

A deeply affecting novel. Full review >

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by Teddy Wayne

A sly, unsettling hybrid of social satire and domestic thriller. Full review >

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by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

A moving reflection on family, belonging, and language’s power to wound and heal. Full review >

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by Yeganeh Torbati & Bozorgmehr Sharafedin

A consciousness-changing record of the oppression of extremism lived and resisted at the personal level. Full review >

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by Sathnam Sanghera

A spirited and nuanced portrait of a complex pop icon. Full review >

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by Katherine Grandjean

An engagingly juicy evocation of life and death in the early Republic. Full review >

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by Ann Larson

In a thoughtful memoir, a former grocery store worker calls for industry reform. Full review >

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