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.
The women at the center of these six essential titles are united in their attempts to navigate a host of fresh-off-your-Twitter-feed issues including but not limited to sexism, sizeism, public exhibitionism, boring boyfriends, violent boyfriends, cocaine, the internet, date rape, family secrets, judicial corruption, writer’s block, hookup culture, and Eastern European sex slavery. In genres ranging from memoir to crime thriller to short fiction, the scenes–even those that, on the face of it, seem far-fetched–are achingly familiar and all too real.
I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro (Ecco)
Girl meets girl, girl gets life-threatening intestinal infection, girl’s mother dies, girl breaks up with girl, girl gets breast cancer, girl performs ground-breaking comedy routine about said tragedies, girl sky-rockets to pop-culture stardom. Notaro’s story is funny not because it’s true (although it is), but because it’s told by the world-class stand-up with wit and vulnerability. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles (Mariner)
The prodigiously inventive Smyles melds novel, autobiography, and all manner of asides as she flails at art, love, and friendship with the wry intelligence of someone just wise enough to realize they have no idea what they are doing. A flat-out joy to read. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman (Spiegel and Grau)
In this sardonic, smart, and thoroughly modern debut collection, Ulman presents nine stories about young women on the verge of adulthood, motherhood, and more who make momentous decisions while delirious with desire. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
Lippman draws on two decades-worth of crime reporting to produce a heart-stopping new thriller, which pivots on a state attorney’s drive and cunning as she unravels a puzzling murder case with personal implications. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti (Dey St.)
A zesty, zeitgeisty memoir in three acts—bodies, boys, and babies—from the cofounder of the trailblazing blog Feministing.com. Start Reading Now on B&N Readouts.
Shrill by Lindy West (Hachette)
T
he literary debut of a critic unafraid to knee the patriarchy in the groin—to wit, her slogan: “Silence is not an option.” West takes no prisoners, whether on the topic of rape culture, internet trolls, or loud-and-proud fat activism. We’re all ears! 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.
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