I usually publish my book lists around the 15th of each month, but my site was under construction and it scattered my wits and interrupted my schedule, so here is the list for both June and July and there are treasures in here and there is plenty of politics, mostly of the Conservative variety. I did not have the usual bulletins from Publishers Weekly, but the New York Times Book Review started arriving like clockwork. Is this like that saying that when one door closes another one opens? Of course, these lists produce both anticipation and anxiety. Which book/s will I love this time? How will I ever, ever get to all of these books? That’s life, full of the paradoxes.
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Literature and Fiction
Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Pond by Claire Louise Bennett
Invincible Summer by Alice Adams
The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock
Pierced by the Sun by Laura Esquivel
As Good As Gone: A Novel by Larry Watson
Siracusa by Delia Ephron
Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams
Night of the Animals: A Novel by Bill Broun
Sarong Party Girls: A Novel by Cheryl Lu-lien Tan
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger
Hot New Releases
Crisis of Character: A White House Service Office Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate by Gary J. Byrne
Wake up America: the Nine Virtues that Made Our Nation Great – and Why We Need Them More Than Ever by Eric Bolling
The Girls: A Novel by Emma Cline
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Gravity Falls: Journal 5 by Alex Hirsch, Rob Renzetti
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family by J. D. Vance
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty by Eric Metaxas
The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing Free Speech by Kimberly Strassel
Here’s to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
The Gilded Years: A Novel by Karin Tanabe
Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
I Am No One: A Novel by Patrick Flanery
All is Not Forgotten: A Novel by Wendy Walker
The Castle of Kings by Oliver Potzch
Wolf Lake: A Novel by John Verdon
How to Set a Fire and Why: A Novel by Jesse Ball
The Heavenly Table: A Novel by Donald Ray Pollock
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Last One: A Novel by Alexandra Olivia
The Black Widow by Daniel Silva
Dark Matter: A Novel by Blake Crouch
Independent Booksellers
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Rocks by Peter Nichols
The Girls by Emma Cline
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
Here’s to Us by Elin Hilderbrand
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
Murder on the Quai by Cara Black
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
The After Party by Anton Di Sclafini
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
New York Times Book Review
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Smoke by Dan Vyleta
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton (YA)
The Sport of Kings by C. E. Morgan
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy (NF)
The New Arab Wars by Marc Lynch (NF)
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? By Katrin Marçal (NF)
The Money Cult by Chris Lehmann (NF)
A Million Windows by James McNamara
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism
by Yuval Leven (NF)
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (NF)
Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War by Mark Danner (NF)
Jackson, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America by Calvin Trillin (NF)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg (NF)
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann (NF)
Native Believer by Ali Eteraz
1st novels
The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth Church (don’t know if this is a great book, but it is a great title)
Happy Family by Tracy Barone
The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt by Tracy Farr
Stork Mountain by Miroslav Penkov
Crime Fiction
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
Willnot by James Sallis
Murder on the Quai by Cara Black
Burn What Will Burn by C B McKenzie
The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
The Extra by A B Yehoshua
The Drowned Detective by Neil Jordon
Born on Tuesday by Elnathan John
I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillian
The Sun in Your Eyes by Deborah Shapiro+
So Many Books, Choose Wisely 