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May 27, 2021 · One summer, 73 books. No matter what you like — thrillers, audiobooks, cookbooks, historical fiction, music books, sci-fi, romance, horror, true crime, sports books, Hollywood tell-alls — we ...
May 9, 2021 · We’ve got 25 new books for summer 2021, from a time-bending love story and a chilling academia thriller to new Stephen King, Lisa Taddeo, Jasmine Guillory and a Linda McCartney cookbook.
- With Teeth, Kristen Arnett
- Somebody’S Daughter, Ashley C. Ford
- The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
- One Last Stop, Casey Mcquiston
- How The Word Is Passed, Clint Smith
- We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, Alice Waters
- The Chosen and The Beautiful, Nghi Vo
- The President’s Daughter, Bill Clinton and James Patterson
- Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi
- Everyone Knows Your Mother Is A Witch, Rivka Galchen
Like her breakout debut, Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett’s latest novel looks at a fractured family unit, this time focusing on two women as they struggle to raise their son. Samson has been difficult ever since he was a young child, but now his juvenile misbehavior gives way to a startling level of hostility in his teenage years. When that aggr...
Best known as a writer and podcast host with sharp pop-culture takes, Ashley C. Ford offers a debut memoir that pulls no punches. Tracking her impoverished youth and adolescence in Indiana, Ford shares her struggles growing up with a single mother as she grapples with her changing body, painful relationships and the truth of her identity, embarking...
Both a blistering satire and sharp social commentary, Zakiya Dalila Harris’ debut novelfollows Nella Rogers, the only Black editorial assistant at the fictional Wagner Books. But that changes the day Hazel-May McCall is hired—setting in motion a strange series of events that leaves Harris’ protagonist unexpectedly isolated. Though the two women ini...
Twenty-three year-old August has just arrived in New York City with a cynical attitude and barely any luggage—her whole life fit into five boxes. She’s a perpetual loner, until one fateful ride on the Q train changes everything. August meets a mysterious girl in a leather jacket named Jane, and is instantly smitten. But there’s a catch: Jane has be...
Writer and poet Clint Smith thoroughly excavates the pervasive (yet not always visible) legacy of slavery in America in his nonfiction debut, How the Word Is Passed. To delve into this history, Smith uses his hometown of New Orleans as the launching point for an evocative and frank exploration of the American slave trade, mapping the wide-reaching ...
Chef Alice Waters is often considered the mother of the farm-to-table food movement, thanks to her legendary Berkeley, Calif., restaurant, Chez Panisse, which she opened in 1971. Waters remains one of the loudest advocates for sustainability in the restaurant business, and has long championed conscientious consumption. Her new book, We Are What We ...
The Great Gatsby’s recent copyright expiration means everyone can take their shot at reinventing F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary story of East Coast glitz and glamour. Nghi Vo’s debut novel does so with ample amounts of magic and mystery, and is centered on Jordan Baker, who in Vo’s telling is a queer Vietnamese woman navigating her way through the...
Former President Bill Clinton teams up with best-selling author James Patterson once more for this summer’s standalone sequel to their 2018 thriller, The President Is Missing. This time, ex-president and one-time Navy SEAL Matthew Keating’s daughter has been kidnapped by a terrorist. Through its 500-plus pages, Clinton and Patterson’s novel puts th...
Structured as a series of letters to friends, lovers and family, Akwaeke Emezi’s searing nonfiction debut is an intimate exploration of the novelist’s relationship to their gender, body, family and freedom. Raw and piercing, these short pieces trace Emezi’s rise as a literary powerhouse, and outline their intense work ethic amid difficult life even...
Rivka Galchen’s smart, wry novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witchis a thought-provoking take on the proverbial witch hunt. Drawing inspiration from real historical documents about Katharina Kepler, an illiterate German woman in the 1600s (and the mother of astronomer Johannes Kepler) who was accused of being a witch, Galchen spins a tale that ...
Jun 3, 2021 · If you’re looking for a new adventure, consider this stacked list of new titles encompassing everything from memoir to thriller to swoon-worthy romance. Whether you’re packing for the beach or ...
- Keely Weiss
Are you ready to fill your to-read list with amazing summer reads? The Summer Reading List 2021 will help you find all the best books to read this summer.
Jul 19, 2021 · As we gear up for a summer of dining, dancing, traveling, and generally making merry in ways not possible a year ago, we’re packing a bag of books for the road.
Jul 26, 2021 · Library staff share 23 of their favorite summer reads — including novels set all around the world, translated memoirs, history deep-dives, and even children's books — most of which are available through HOLLIS.
