Book*hug Recommends: Author Summer Reads
Today, we’re sharing summer reading recommendations from some of our lovely authors. These are books that they’ve either already read and loved, or books that they’re planning to read (and hopefully love) this summer!
Marta Balcewicz, author of Big Shadow
- Out of the Sugar Factory by Dorothee Elmiger, translated by Megan Ewing
- Brian by Jeremy Cooper
- Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys by Aaron Tucker
Eden Boudreau, author of Crying Wolf
- The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off by Gloria Steinem
- Lump by Nathan Whitlock
- What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn
Lauren Carter, author of Places Like These
- Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
- Larry’s Party by Carol Shields
- Coq by Ali Bryan
Kate Cayley, author of Lent
- Couplets by Maggie Milner
- The Affirmations by Luke Hathaway
- The Adult by Bronwyn Fischer
Rune Christiansen, author of The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life
- King Cophetua by Julien Gracq
- Éric Rohmer: A Biography by Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal
- Wait Softly Brother by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Kari Dickson, translator of The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman’s Life
- Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot
- The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold
- Let the Light Pour In by Lemn Sissy
Marie-Andrée Gill, author of Heating the Outdoors
- Rose’s Run by Dawn Dumont
- The Uncontrollability of the World by Hartmut Rosa
- All About Love by bell hooks
Kristen Renee Miller, translator of Heating the Outdoors
- White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
- Pachinko Parlor by Elisa Shua Dusapin
- Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert
