48.5 - The Best Beach Reads Are Whatever You Read On A Beach

Here's a little shorty for you guys. This week we're excited about books that are coming out this summer, including a number of full length books from some of our favorite journalists and critics at large.

Here's a little shorty for you guys. This week we're excited about books that are coming out this summer, including a number of full length books from some of our favorite journalists and critics at large. We're here to break the stigma about summer reads and prove that like a beach body being the body you have, but in a bikini, the best beach reads are whatever book you are reading on the beach.

Next week we will be discussing The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. Read along with us!

Recommended Reads

1. The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones by Zeynep Tufekci - Scientific American

2. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes - June 25

3. Jade War by Fonda Lee - July 23

4. Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell - May 14

5. Bunny by Mona Awad - June 11

6. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - August 13

7. Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Ackner - June 18

   • Inside Hillsong, the Church of Choice for Justin Bieber and Kevin Durant - GQ

   • Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now - NYT

8. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips - May 14

9. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino - August 6

   • Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” - The New Yorker

10. Females: A Concern by Andrea Long Chu - October 29

    • Psycho Analysis - Book Forum