Summer is upon us, and that means it is time to put together our summer reads list! Our editors have whittled down their dream beach reads, their "I've been meaning to read this all year" reads, and their "I'm hoping to make time to read this" reads, and put together a pretty solid collection here for you. There's a little something for everyone on this list. So go and find your next adventure on the page!
Annie Johnson - Copy Editor
Edgar: An Autobiography by Edgar Martinez
Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America by Elise Hooper
The Gown: A Novel of the Royal Wedding by Jennifer Robson
Peter Heft - Philosophy Editor
Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero by Brian Rotman
Futures and Fictions (edited) by Simon O'Sullivan, Ayesha Hameed, and Henriette Gunkel
Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson
Corrie Hulse - Managing Editor
Mina by Kim Sagwa
The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller, III Special Counsel, United States Department of Justice
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Marie Lamensch - International Affairs Editor
Seven at Sea by Erik and Emily Orton
Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
Inland by Tea Obreht
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Aria Chiodo - Arts & Culture Editor
In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
A Stranger's Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Crudo: a novel by Olivia Laing
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
Shaun Randol - Editor in Chief
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Cowboys and East Indians by Nina McConigley
L.E.L. by Lucasia Miller
Morgan Forde - Deputy Managing Editor
Figuring by Maria Popova
The World as It Is by Ben Rhodes
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich
Dark Shadows: Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan by Joanna Lillis
How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs
Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege by Mike S. Thompson
Montana Agte-Studier - Associate Publisher
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
On The High Wire by Philippe Petit
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
Bright by Duanwad Pimwana
Break of Day by Colette
A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon
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