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The Ultimate Summer 2026 Reading List

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A Bookstore Boom in a Time of Literacy Decline

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50 of the Greatest Summer Novels of All Time

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Is This the Strangest Soccer Novel Ever Written?

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How We All Became Little Blue Dots on a Digital Map

By Katherine Dunn

A Poem For Bad Dads: Annakeara Stinson on The Cremation of Sam McGee

By Annakeara Stinson

“Don’t Let Nobody Ever Call You That.” Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor on Finding Confidence in Her Blackness

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Mail Between Heaven and Earth: On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead

By Sally Hayden

What is the Future of Ethnic Studies?

By Aaron Boehmer

The Powerful Freedom of BDSM

By Angela Jones

On Redeeming Freud

By Stephen O'Connor

Never-Ending Brightness: How Excessive Exposure to Artificial Light Is Hurting Us All

By Rowan Jacobsen

On the Ethical Problems of Clinging to My Sighted Life

By Deni Elliott

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Resistance Against Apartheid Started Young

By Lynda Schuster

Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities

By Jane Ciabattari

On Time, Pain and the Labor Process: Considering the History of Midwifery

By Erin Maglaque

What It’s Like to Interview For the Job of “Astronaut”

By Leroy Chiao

A Global Journey: Understanding Centuries of Black Exclusion and Erasure in Healthcare

By Nicole Carr

On the Rise of Reluctant Heterosexuality

By Sophie Lewis

Crime Reads

Crime Reads

June 17, 2026

The Best True Crime Books of the Month: June 2026

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It's time to talk about Psych

By Olivia Rutigliano

10 New Books Coming Out This Week

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The Best Paperback Releases of June 2026

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Book Marks

Book Marks

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

By Jared Marcel Pollen

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

By Yoo Heekyung and Stine An

American Patriotism Has Always Privileged the Hopes of the Future Over the Sins of the Present

By Dominic Erdozain

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

By Thomas Levenson

Introducing Lost Kite Editions, the Indie Press Bringing “Insurgent” Work to Minneapolis.

By Brittany Allen

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

By David S. Reynolds

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

By Andrea Wulf

The King of Cheese Has a Long and Famous History

By Danielle Callegari