Summer Reads

Part mystery, part dystopic thriller, and part magical academia with a lot of heart. This read is a delight! It’s the perfect type of contemporary fantasy mash-up with just the right amount of supernatural and horror elements to keep you up at night...

(Available after March 30th, 2022) Endlessly compelling and absolutely unputdownable, Woman on Fire is the thriller you've been waiting for. An ambitious young journalist is tasked with tracking down a painting stolen during WWII, and soon...

Raised by bird spirits in the Great Tree, Zuli has spent her life surrounded by magic. When a mysterious force endangers the birds, Zuli sets off on an epic adventure to figure out how to stop it and ends up learning about herself along the way. This...

All of Our Demise is the epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology.“I feel like I should warn you: this is going to be absolutely brutal.”For the first time in this ancient,...

(Available after May 31th, 2022)In this simmering, joyous novel, I’ll Be the One author Lyla Lee delivers a tender romance set between two brave teens who decide that when the script isn’t working, it’s time to rewrite it themselves.   The first rule of...

(Available after June 30th, 2022)"Every line reads like an incantation, and the result is a book pulsing with magic, one that holds the reader firmly under its spell.” —V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue“A riveting story that grips...

"This slim book—seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez—hums with power and wit."—Boston Globe     "The antidote to mansplaining."—The Stranger     "Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often...

National Book Award LonglistWinner of the Kirkus Prize for NonfictionWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political...

(Available after March 31th, 2022)From the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.    The Intersectional...

(Available after 3-20 days)“Not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement. . . but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man...

A self-described failed filmmaker falls obsessively in love with her theorist-husband's colleague: a manifesto for a new kind of feminism and the power of first-person narration. In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens &...

Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite...

Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Black Is King, award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire “The beautifully crafted poems in this collection are fiercely tender gifts...

Informed and persuasive, Scott’s polemic against gender inequality in global economics highlights the benefits for everybody of empowering women in business and in the workforce. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book...

'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless...

(Available after 3-20 days)Two young teenage girls, Lucy and Zoe, have taken to sneaking out at night sometimes and heading somewhere peaceful and secluded where they can forget about school, and homework, and chores, and bullies, and just be themselves...

(Available after June 30th, 2022) The tennis great has shown tenacity and determination in her career and a lot more of that in her personal life. King was among the best players in America but also an outspoken woman for gay and lesbian rights at a...

(Available after April 30th, 2022)From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book...

This is a fresh and surprising account of Japan's culture from the 'opening up' of the country in the mid-nineteenth century to the present.'How much I admired it, what a lot I learned from it and, above all, how very much I enjoyed it ... Masterly...

(Available after April 30th, 2022)A thrilling postmodern noir about the real-life disappearance, in 1949, of one of Japan's most powerful figures, and the three men who try—and fail—to crack the case.Tokyo, July 1949. The president of the National...