June, joyfully, is here, bringing with it the official start of summer and Pride month—two grand things in my book. And, speaking of books, it’s a new month, which means there’s a whole new set of exciting ones to look forward to in hardcover and paperback alike. Below, I’ve compiled a list of twenty-five books being rereleased in paperback this June.
It’s a particularly strong month for fiction, with exciting novels and short stories from Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead, Gabrielle Zevin, Jenny Xie, Tania James, Cristina García, Henry Hoke, and more. And there’s scintillating nonfiction on offer, as well, with Anne Hull’s poignant and evocative memoir, ; John Vaillant’s celebrated account of a wildfire and its implications for our future in ; Michael Finkel’s remarkable tale of an obsessive art thief; Alexander Stille on the notorious cult of the Sullivanians; and more. If you missed them in hardcover, well, you’ve got another chance to enter into their fictive and all-too-real worlds.
Summer is always better with new things to read, after all. Enjoy the sun with one (or many) of these! * “A dazzling collection of nine stories originally written in Italian and featuring characters who grapple with vast emotional and social chasms that cleave the lives of families, longtime friends, and immigrants..
..Throughout, Lahiri’s luminous prose captures a side of Rome often ignored.
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These unembroidered yet potent stories shine.” – “Whitehead’s New Yo.
