Books on Deck: July 2024
Is it just me or are a lot of these July books about murders and/or schemes. I love it here.
It is the first pub day of July. I think the foretold pulling back on books in anticipation of the 2024 election has started. I am really excited about the six books on my list, but other than these I am a little lukewarm and the month ahead. Hoping to be surprised. The good news is I might even make it through all of these books by month’s end.
The list is a little short, but every book here seems extremely promising. They also all seem to fit a trend about murders and scams, which tracks since this is my list and it is my birthday month (I’m a leo I do in fact celebrate all month long)!
As a reminder, I try my hardest to keep this lists manageable and only share the books I am truly excited about. These lists don’t always include the buzziest books, you can read about those on all the other lists. Over here we keep it real.
This list is organized by pub date. Anything I have already read is in bold.
Here are my most anticipated books of July!
This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askariapour (July 9)
, is back with a sci-fi novel about an invisible girl in search of her brother who is wanted for a high stakes murder.
Friend of the pod and the author of Black Buck,The Coin by Yasmin Zaher (July 9)
A novel about a Palestinian teacher living in NYC who falls into a scheme reselling Birkin bags. This one is weird and funny in all the right ways..Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even by Nicole Treska (July 9)
A short memoir about a working class woman’s upbringing in a family of hustlers. The prose are beautiful, and the story is small and intimate. Very “memoir”.The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA by Jesse Katz (July 9)
This sounds like an extremely me book — investigative journalism about a murder, and also about bigger systems at play, gangs, prisons, and set in Los Angeles.
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (July 23)
This has been described to me as one of the stories from The Undocumented Americans (the author’s first book) come to life in fictional form and set on Harvard’s campus. Sign me up.Did Everyone Have an Imaginary Friend (or Just Me)?: Adventures in Boyhood by Jay Ellis (July 30)
I mean, Jay Ellis wrote a book and while I have no clue what to expect or if it will be good at all, I am extremely curious.
Here are a few more books I’m sort of considering being interested in based on people I know (and like) who like them a lot. These didn’t make the main list because I’m not sure I am really interested or that I would like them, but I also can’t stop thinking about maybe reading them, so here they are.
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore (July 2)
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (July 9)
The Wedding People by Alison Espach (July 30)
We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston (July 30)
Now it’s your turn. Tell me what books are on your July must read list?
If you want to know even more of the books I’m looking forward to in July and through the end of the year, I’ve got a list for that! Check it out on bookshop.org!
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The God of the Woods was a top notch suspense - not a literary masterpiece but excellent for its genre. The writing was what hooked me. If you are in the mood for fast but not shallow I would recommend!
The Rent Collectors sounds made for me!