All this month we’re featuring a selection of fantastic summer reading selected by the experts at O: The Oprah Magazine. See more topics here.
Somewhere in the endless vistas of our wide and deep country are young girls becoming indigenous berserks, little towns slowly and silently fading away, fruited plains and ferocious rivers, natural disasters and man-made ones, wild horses and their even wilder masters – all coexisting on a vast, mystic frontier.
The Girls by Emma Cline (Random House)
Evie is like most 14-year-olds: slightly 
awkward, beginning to be sexually curious, and constantly measuring herself against other girls. But it’s California in the summer of 1969, and these other girls are members of a Manson-like cult that Evie does not have the sense of self to resist. A mesmerizing debut from an author on intimate terms with the blood, sweat and tears of American adolescence. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Lions, by Bonnie Nadzam (Black Cat)
How long can a man believe he lives in a country that doesn’t actually exist…?” This is the question the people of the isolated fictional town of Lions, Colorado, must ask themselves in this story of haunted histories and broken promises. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
The Sport of Kings, by C.E. Morgan (FSG)
The splendor and barbarism of horse racing and the legacy of slavery are just two of the threads in this sprawling, magisterial Southern Gothic for the 21st century. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Nitro Mountain, by Lee Clay Johnson (Knopf)
This darkly stunning tale of stark dramas and tragic lives plays out against a backdrop of mournful country music and Appalachia’s lush, lonely peaks. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Marrow Island, by Alexis Smith (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A faltering journalist returns to an island abandoned after an earthquake released a toxic spill. That’s the beautifully wrought setting of this novel, which reunites two childhood friends, one of whom has joined a sect claiming it can heal the land. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Buffalo Jump Blues, by Keith McCafferty (Viking)
A small herd of bison stampede off a cliff. Among the carcasses is the body of a Native American man killed by an arrow shot. Enter P.I. Sean Stranahan and his ex, Sheriff Martha Ettinger, trying to find out whodunit without driving each other over the edge in this Montana-flavored mystery. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Looking for more inspirations for your summer reading? Explore more of The Best Books of Summer from the editors of O: The Oprah Magazine, in the B&N Review or in the pages of this month’s issue of O: The Oprah Magazine.
The Barnes & Noble Review http://ift.tt/29lByWZ
Sig Nordal 