Hottest Summer Reads of 2021

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Thriller & Suspense

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris, 2021

Fiction

Golden Girl

Elin Hilderbrand, 2021

The Great Mistake

Jonathan Lee, 2021

Suburban Dicks

Fabian Nicieza, 2021

Lorna Mott Comes Home

Diane Johnson, 2021

Build Your House Around My Body

Violet Kupersmith, 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, 2021

Damnation Spring

ASH. DAVIDSON, 2021

Nonfiction

The Second

Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Carol Anderson, 2021

The Plague Year

America in the Time of Covid

Lawrence Wright, 2021

What White People Can Do Next

From Allyship to Coalition

Emma Dabiri, 2021

The Sound of the Sea

Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

Cynthia Barnett, 2021

Pastoral Song

A Farmer's Journey

James Rebanks, 2021

Graphic Novels & Comics

Wake

The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall, 2021

Seek You

A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke, 2021

The Legend of Auntie Po

Shing Yin Khor, 2021

Jop and Blip Wanna Know #1: Can You Hear A Penguin Fart on Mars?

And Other Excellent Questions

Jim Benton, 2021

Bad Sister

Charise Mericle Harper, 2021

Super Sidekicks #2: Ocean's Revenge

GAVIN AUNG. THAN, 2021

History

How the Word Is Passed

A Journey Across the Country That Black America Built

Clint Smith, 2021

Teens & Young Adult

One Great Lie

Deb Caletti, 2021

Instructions for Dancing

Nicola Yoon, 2021

All Our Hidden Gifts

Caroline O’Donoghue, 2021

Summer in the City of Roses

Michelle Ruiz Keil, 2021

Xoxo

In the Wild Light

Jeff Zentner, 2021

Redemptor (Raybearer Book 2)

Jordan Ifueko, 2021

Children's

Rez Dogs

Joseph Bruchac, 2021

Fangs for Having Us!

Nancy Krulik, 2021

Black Boy Joy

17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

Kwame Mbalia, 2021

Paola Santiago and the Forest of Nightmares

Tehlor Kay Mejia, 2021

Sharice's Big Voice

A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman

Sharice Davids, Nancy K. Mays, TBD, 2021

Dear Librarian

Lydia M. Sigwarth, 2021

Areli Is a Dreamer

A True Story by Areli Morales, a DACA Recipient

Areli Morales, 2021

Dr. Fauci

How a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor

Kate Messner, 2021

Best Day Ever!

Marilyn Singer, 2021

Except Antarctica

Todd Sturgell, 2021

Brayden Speaks Up

How One Boy Inspired the Nation

Brayden Harrington, 2021