Literary Affairs - Summer Reading List 2016

The Hottest Book Club Books of the Year

My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen by Jackie Copleton Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Current Fiction and Literary Non-Fiction

Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta Heroes of the Frontier by Dave Eggers LaRose by Louise Erdrich The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes The Last Painting of Sara de Vos The Girls by Emma Cline by Dominic Smith Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett by Louisa Thomas Dodgers by Bill Beverly The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal The Unseen World by Liz Moore Barkskins by Annie Proulx The Beautiful Possible by Amy Gottlieb Zero K by Don DeLillo The Mare by Mary Gaitskill Maud’s Line by Margaret Verble

Books for the Beach

The Summer Before The War The Nest by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney by Helen Simonson Modern Lovers by Emma Straub As Close To Us As Breathing The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni by Elizabeth Poliner They May Not Mean To, But They Do by I Will Send Rain by Rae Meadows Cathleen Schine Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone VietnamEazy by Trami Nguyen Cron Between You and Me by Mary Norris The After Party by Anton DiSclafani Eliza Waite by Ashley Sweeney

If You Haven’t Read It Yet

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante Middlemarch by George Eliot Early One Morning by Virginia Baily Into The Forest by Jean Hegland Lady Susan by Jane Austen The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Mary Coin by Marisa Silver The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Lover by Marguerite Duras www.literaryaffairs.net