20 Books to Read this Summer 2021

by The Washington Post

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20 books

Looking for a summer read? Let us help you choose.

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Fiction

Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour, 2021

Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny, 2021

Gold Diggers

Sanjena Sathian, 2021

Good Company

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, 2021

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead, 2021

Hour of the Witch

Chris Bohjalian, 2021

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel, 2021

A Lonely Man

Chris Power, 2021

Malibu Burning

Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021

The Plot

Jean Hanff Korelitz, 2021

Nonfiction

All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles, 2021

Broken (in the best possible way)

Jenny Lawson, 2021

Chasing the Thrill

Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt

Daniel Barbarisi, 2021

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner, 2021

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021

Finding the Mother Tree

Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard, 2021

Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War

Jeff Shesol, 2021

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Alison Bechdel, 2021

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford, 2021

Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie

The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Lisa Napoli, 2021