Book*hug Recommends: Summer 2024 Reads, Author Edition

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!

Kate Cayley, author of How You Were Born and Lent

    

• Curiosities by Anne Fleming
• Berlin by Rory MacLean
• North by Seamus Heany

Shani Mootoo, author of Oh Witness Dey!, Cane/Fire, and Polar Vortex

     

• The Question of Zion by Jacqueline Rose
• Empire World: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
• Offline: Fifty Thoughts for Fifty Years by Jay Millar

Johanna Skibsrud, author of Medium and The Nothing That Is

        

• Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen
• Interrobang by Mary Dalton
• Lament for Julia by Susan Taubes

Daniel Sarah Karasik, author of Disobedience and Plenitude

    

• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
• Anomia by Jade Wallace
• The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick

Adrienne Gruber, author of   Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood, Q & A, and Buoyancy Control

   

• Splinters by Leslie Jamison
• My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott
• Motherlike by Katherine Leyton