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Editors over at The Millions<\/em> are staying true to their publication\u2019s name with their whopping list of 130 new books to read this summer<\/a>. With help from editors over at Publishers Weekly<\/em>, The Millions<\/em> has compiled a list that is full of buzzy fiction, biting nonfiction, translated psychological thrillers, and more.<\/p>\n

Below is a sampling of the list, which has a little bit of everything for every kind of summer reader. <\/p>\n

Memoir and other Nonfiction<\/h3>\n
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Every Inch a Lady<\/em> by Audrey Smaltz<\/p>\n

Data Empire<\/em> by Roopika Risam<\/p>\n

Our Knives Will Save Us<\/em> by Nephi Craig <\/p>\n

The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory<\/em> by Emily Eakin<\/p>\n

Journey to Nowhere<\/em> by Shiva Naipaul<\/p>\n

Unsayable: A Life in Writing<\/em> by Michael Cunningham<\/p>\n

Hiroshima, 8:15<\/em> by Kiyoshi Tanimoto<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Historian<\/em> by Dave Zirin<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/h3>\n

A Quiet Place<\/em> by Seich\u014d Matsumoto, trans. by Louise Heal Kawai<\/p>\n

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Famous Men<\/em> by Julie Bunti<\/p>\n

The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman<\/em> by Deesha Philyaw<\/p>\n

The Radiance <\/em>by Ayad Akhtar<\/p>\n

Bedlam<\/em> by Jennifer Higgie<\/p>\n

Chosen Family<\/em> by Madeleine Gray<\/p>\n

It Will Come Back to You<\/em> by Sigrid Nunez<\/p>\n

Cool Machine<\/em> by Colson Whitehead<\/p>\n

Suffer a Witch<\/em> by Joy McCullough<\/p>\n

Kitten<\/em> by Stacey Yu<\/p>\n

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