Paul Yoon, Meaghan Beatley, Claudia Rankine, and more: 22 new books out today!

The first week of August brings a windfall of heavyweight literature: a novel by Paul Yoon, a searing nonfiction book of essays by Meaghan Beatley, and a much anticipated work by Claudia Rankine. This is just the beginning: read on for the full selection of books available today, and happy reading!

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Paul Yoon, Etna
(Scribner)

“In this masterful and infinitely moving dog’s tale, Yoon shows us what great fiction can do: change the way we see the world by sharing the song of another heart.”
–Mona Awad

Meaghan Beatley, Sex and Dissent: Stories of Feminist Resistance in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain
(Penguin)

“Revelatory … At a time of great backlash and regression, North American women should indeed look to Latin America for a new way forward.”
–Sarah Weinman

Claudia Rankine, Triage
(Graywolf)

“Rankine is one of the most eloquent and incisive poets and essayists of the contemporary Black American experience.”
–Booklist

Chris Bohjalian, The Amateur
(Doubleday)

“It’s hard to think of any reason not to call this a perfect novel: a hole in one.”
–Kirkus

Fiona Mozley, Awake Awake
(Algonquin)

“A slow-burn novel that hums with disquieting energy.”
–Library Journal

Matthew Futterman, The Cruelest Game: Chasing Greatness in Professional Tennis
(Doubleday)

“Matt Futterman is one of the clearest modern-day journalistic voices in tennis, and in The Cruelest Game he lifts the curtain on the physical and mental challenges faced by professional athletes today.”
–Billie Jean King

George Pelecanos, The Blue Flame
(Cardinal)

“Pelecanos’s experience shows in this warmly recommended, quietly absorbing tale.”
–Library Journal

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made
(Penguin Press)

“In this masterful biography, Jelly-Schapiro demonstrates Belafonte’s transformative influence on the Black freedom struggle.”
–Booklist

Naima Coster, Take What You Can
(Pamela Dorman)

“So brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart from gulping it down too fast.”
–Catherine Newman

Michelle Brandon, Tradwife
(Avon)

“Catty deliciousness—with a foundation of strong, true friendship.”
–Christi Barth

Amy Crawford, Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All Belong
(Oxford University Press)

“A wonderfully clear-eyed exploration that reveals as much about ourselves as about the species we love to hate.”
–Michelle Nijhuis

Stacey Yu, Kitten
(Random House)

“A fresh, funny, and totally bewitching love story that asks profound questions about attachment and how to belong to one another and to ourselves.”
–Gina Chung

Kathryn Jezer-Morton, The Story of Your Life: How Social Media Shapes the Way We Experience Everything
(Viking)

“A shrewd analysis of how social media has restricted the stories people tell about themselves and others.”
–The Millions

Carol Gilligan, Solstice
(Random House)

“A remarkable work by a remarkable writer, in whose generative hands head meets, at last, heart.”
–Gish Jen

Kimon de Greef, The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, a Trail of Deaths, and the Guru Who Peddled Transcendence
(Doubleday)

“Entirely mesmerizing, a tale of psychedelic tourists, shamanistic grift, chemistry, chicanery, tribal history, a chemical gold rush in the Sonoran desert and, above all, the enduring human quest for transcendence.”
–Patrick Radden Keefe

A. Igoni Barrett, Whyteface
(Graywolf)

“Brilliant, funny, and illuminating in all the right ways. A. Igoni Barrett is an exciting talent.”
–Irenosen Okojie

Margrét Ann Thors, Freyja
(Spiegel & Grau)

“An Icelandic tale, a haunting mystery, and a paean to the messy bonds of family.”
–Victor LaValle

Lee Seong-bok, trans. by Anton Hur, That Summer’s End: Poems
(Knopf)

“Lee Seong-bok’s extraordinary poems feel etched in stone but gorgeously diaphanous, light as air.”
–Richie Hofmann

Louise Nealon, Everything That Is Beautiful
(Harper)

“With humor and emotional understanding, Nealon describes the challenging realities of contemporary family life.”
–Library Journal

Claire Stapleton, Don’t Be Evil: Bad Bosses, Fake Promises, and My Escape from Big Tech
(William Morrow)

“This book is an absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America. I loved it.”
–Naomi Fry

Emily McBride, Queen Mab
(FSG)

“A harrowing tale of mothering and myth.”
–Kirkus

Devyn Defoe, Burnside
(Astra)

“A powerfully strange, deftly brutal, sickly comic book that I read with alarmed awe.”
–Lydia Kiesling