10 books to add to your reading list in July 2022 – Los Angeles Times
Posted By admin on July 4, 2022
On the Shelf
10 July Books For Your Reading List
If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your July list.
Beach reads, more than ever, are in the eye of the beholder. An uncommonly thoughtful and fun romance? Sure. An old-fashioned novel about land preservation in Maine, or a creepy retelling of The Island of Dr. Moreau? Why not. How about a deep dive into the life and crimes of Harvey Weinstein? Or the tribulations of a Hasidic woman with an internet-porn habit? Whatever your taste or mood, July offers something to meet you where you are or wherever you want to be.
Honey & SpiceBy Bolu BabalolaMorrow: 368 pages, $28(July 5)
This smart, sexy summer read, which hits your brain and your romance buttons in one shot, features Kiki Banjo, whose Brown Sugar radio show at a British university keeps her busy in the shadows until she agrees to a fake relationship with a new student and discovers that overexposure can be even worse than obscurity.
Fellowship PointBy Alice Elliott DarkScribner/Marysue Rucci: 592 pages, $29(July 5)
Longing for an old-fashioned 19th century novel but without the time travel? Fellowship Point earns its nearly 600 pages with a quietly complex structure, starring two octogenarian women whose long friendship is entangled with their families landholdings in coastal Maine. As they seek to save the acreage from development, Agnes Lee and Polly Wister must also confront their past choices and find some peace in the present.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowBy Gabrielle ZevinKnopf: 481 pages, $28(July 5)
Zevin (The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry) conjures up a novel about game designers that has little to do with gaming and a story about fierce love between two people that has nothing to do with romance. Sam Masur and Sadie Green created their first blockbuster game, Ichigo, while still in their 20s. Now incredibly rich, they still must figure out how to live a life richly, and their bond informs every step of a narrative that feels, in fact, a lot like a game.
ShmutzBy Felicia BerlinerAtria: 272 pages, $27(July 19)
Step aside Mrs. Fletcher. Take a seat, women of Unorthodox. Its Raizls turn. Raizl Hasidic Jew, college student, internet-porn addict is supposed to study for her accounting degree and prepare for an arranged marriage; instead she stays up at night watching steamy sites on mute so as not to awake sister Gitti. Transgressive and hilarious, Raizls story questions everything we think we know about women, desire and religious faith.
The Daughter of Doctor MoreauBy Silvia Moreno-GarciaDel Rey: 320 pages, $28(July 19)
Moreno-Garcia has rewritten the gothic (Mexican Gothic), the noir (Velvet Was the Night) and now the sci-fi in this take on the 1896 H. G. Wells classic, The Island of Doctor Moreau. Carlota Moreau lives in the Yucatn with her father and his human/animal hybrids. Between the increasingly meddlesome patron Hernando Lizalde, his son Eduardo and a newly arrived hard-drinking English mayordomo, things are about to change for Carlota in surprising ways.
Invisible Storm: A Soldiers Memoir of Politics and PTSDBy Jason KanderMariner: 224 pages, $28(July 5)
PTSD can flare up months or years after the experience of trauma, as it did for Kander, a former Army officer whose first memoir, Outside the Wire, described his active-duty experiences. Invisible Storm details Kanders long depression after he pursued a political career, leading up to what he hoped would be a 2020 presidential bid. Will Kander try again for public office? He doesnt say here, but he does indicate hes working to heal, and for now, perhaps thats enough.
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of SilenceBy Ken AulettaPenguin Press: 480 pages, $30(July 12)
Auletta first wrote about Harvey Weinstein in the New Yorker two decades ago, portraying him then as a nasty piece of work professionally but it wasnt until the last decade, during which women came forward and their stories of sexual abuse and rape culminated in his 2017 arrest, that Auletta was able to conduct and compile the interviews that make up this comprehensive and horribly painful look at what makes monstrous behavior possible.
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 SiblingsBy Chrysta BiltonLittle, Brown: 288 pages, $29(July 12)
This remarkable and wise book is actually two memoirs, braided together with such tendresse that readers will come to believe the ironic title in earnest. Born via turkey baster to a lesbian mother with countless connections and even more schemes, Chrysta and her younger sister didnt learn until decades later that their family secrets included one that would change everything, including their definition of family.
Crying in the Bathroom: A MemoirBy Erika L. SnchezViking: 256 pages, $27(July 12)
Shes already an award-winning poet, essayist and novelist, with an acclaimed YA book, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, being adapted into a film by America Ferrera. Now Snchez is a memoirist too, her smart and spiky voice enlivening connected essays on growing up brown and depressed but also obsessed with comedy. Youll yearn for a sequel before youve even turned the last page.
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A ConfessionalBy Isaac FitzgeraldOUP: 496 pages, $30(July 19)
Is a dirtbag a place, a person or even a profession? Fitzgerald, whose stations in life have ranged from working-class deprived to boarding-school privileged to sex-worker jaded, doesnt just tell us about these things and more. He reflects on how his journey has both formed him as a man and helped to change his views of masculinity, race and identity. And while his recollections are pervaded by considerations of manliness, he never shuts out other genders or ways of being.
See the rest here:
10 books to add to your reading list in July 2022 - Los Angeles Times
- Hasidic Judaism | Encyclopedia.com - November 26th, 2023
- Pro-Palestine protesters plan to 'flood' Brooklyn -- near Hasidic Jewish site: 'The louder we will be' - New York Post - October 29th, 2023
- Hasidism: An Overview | Encyclopedia.com - October 18th, 2023
- Plans to form Viznitz Hasidic village in Sullivan County halted by ... - Times Herald-Record - October 18th, 2023
- Rough Diamonds Gets the Details of Hasidic Life Right, but Fails to ... - Mosaic - October 18th, 2023
- I left the Hasidic world three years ago. This time of year, I dearly miss it - Forward - October 8th, 2023
- Democrat congressional candidate and former member walks back calling Kevin McCarthy's meeting with Hasidic le - Daily Mail - October 6th, 2023
- I'm A Queer Woman Who Left My Marriage In The Hasidic Community. Theres One Thing People Don't Understand. - HuffPost UK - September 30th, 2023
- Hasidic Judaism - Wikiwand - September 24th, 2023
- Hasidic | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary - September 22nd, 2023
- Hasidic rapper Moshe Reuven is making history - Unpacked - Jewish Unpacked - September 22nd, 2023
- Yeshivas refusal to enroll a 10-year-old pits a Hasidic father against a non-Hasidic mother - Forward - September 22nd, 2023
- List of Hasidic dynasties and groups - Wikipedia - September 12th, 2023
- Hasidic rockers Why Evolution Is True - Why Evolution Is True - September 12th, 2023
- I led an antisemitism training for workers in a labor dispute with their Hasidic bosses. Heres what I learned - Forward - September 12th, 2023
- Hasidim | Encyclopedia.com - September 5th, 2023
- What Hasidic Boys Learn, An Enlightening Conversation with Moshe ... - CrownHeights.info - September 5th, 2023
- New Hasidic song slams yeshivas that reject students who dont fit in - Forward - September 5th, 2023
- Rap group Three 6 Mafia arrives on TikTok with videos of Hasidic ... - The Jewish News of Northern California - August 22nd, 2023
- Hasid - Wikipedia - August 16th, 2023
- Viznitz Hasidic group petitions for village in Thompson, Fallsburg - Times Herald-Record - August 6th, 2023
- Cardi B Stirs Controversy Tweeting Photo of Hasidic Jews After ... - Algemeiner - August 6th, 2023
- Hasidic life in Uman: A journey across Ukraine to the Tomb of Rabbi ... - Milwaukee Independent - August 6th, 2023
- THE HASIDIC KOPPLE Comes to the Cameri Theatre This Month - Broadway World - July 9th, 2023
- Hundreds protest Hasidic pilgrimages to Haifa monastery - The Times of Israel - June 25th, 2023
- The Belzer Rebbe Has Created A Program To Support Ex-Hasidic Jews - Jew in the City - June 10th, 2023
- The Hasidic Community's Reckoning Over COVID-19 - The Atlantic - May 22nd, 2023
- How the haredi Orthodox are changing Israel - May 22nd, 2023
- When One Parent Leaves a Hasidic Community, What Happens to the Kids? - May 22nd, 2023
- Hasidic Judaism - May 9th, 2023
- Hasidic Movement: A History - May 9th, 2023
- Hasidic philosophy - May 9th, 2023
- Suspect arrested in assaults on Hasidic Jewish men in Outremont - Montreal Gazette - April 22nd, 2023
- Hasidic Judaism Rules & Customs | What Does Hasidic Mean? | Study.com - March 28th, 2023
- How Public Money Goes to Support a Hasidic Villages Private Schools ... - February 25th, 2023
- How the Hasidic Jewish Community Became a Political Force in New York - February 25th, 2023
- Ashkenazi Hasidim - Wikipedia - February 17th, 2023
- What Is Chabad? | My Jewish Learning - February 11th, 2023
- Payot - Wikipedia - February 4th, 2023
- Anti-Hasidic bias claimed in suit over 2,600-home Lost Lake project - January 2nd, 2023
- Why Do Hasidic Jews Dress So Differently? - Seeker - December 27th, 2022
- Hasidic School Is Breaking State Education Law, N.Y. Official Rules - December 11th, 2022
- Zeldin Sees a Path to Becoming Governor. It Runs Through Brooklyn. - December 11th, 2022
- Jeff Wilbusch left his Hasidic community at 13. Now he's exploring his ... - December 11th, 2022
- Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Widespread Fraud - December 7th, 2022
- Developer claims anti-Hasidic bias in suit over thwarted housing plans - December 7th, 2022
- In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Yeshivas Flush With Public Money - The New ... - December 7th, 2022
- New York Hasidic School Admits to Benefit Fraud Conspiracy, Agrees to ... - November 6th, 2022
- Mother of 10 says her kids didn't learn basic reading, math, science at ... - November 6th, 2022
- Upsherin - Wikipedia - November 6th, 2022
- Why The New York Times translated its Hasidic yeshiva investigation ... - October 17th, 2022
- Im not Hasidic, but an afternoon in Williamsburg deepened my appreciation of Sukkot - Forward - October 17th, 2022
- A food truck at Duke University offers a truce to rising tensions on Mideast politics - Religion News Service - October 17th, 2022
- A More Perfect Mediocracy by Liel Leibovitz | Articles - First Things - October 17th, 2022
- Stop saying there's a polio emergency | News, Sports, Jobs - Alpena News - October 6th, 2022
- Where do Hochul and Zeldin stand on education? - Chalkbeat New York - October 6th, 2022
- How concierge IV therapy went from Instagram trend to pre-Yom Kippur hydration hack - JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency - October 6th, 2022
- War-torn Ukraine prepares for mass arrival of Hasidic Jews to Uman - September 27th, 2022
- Thousands of Hasidic Jews defy travel warnings by making New Year ... - September 27th, 2022
- Wanted for slapping Hasidic man in unprovoked attack - New York Daily News - September 27th, 2022
- The Civic Duties of Hasidic Schools | Cole S. Aronson - First Things - September 23rd, 2022
- A formerly Hasidic mom who sued her sons yeshiva will head nonprofit advocating for secular education - JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic Agency - September 23rd, 2022
- Letters to the editor | | tulsaworld.com - Tulsa World - September 23rd, 2022
- No Soul Is Safe in Teaser Trailer for the Jewish Folklore Horror Film THE OFFERING GeekTyrant - GeekTyrant - September 23rd, 2022
- I read a secret transcript of Hasidic sex advice. Ive read worse. - Forward - August 12th, 2022
- South Blooming Grove finishes review of 600-home Clovewood project - Times Herald-Record - August 12th, 2022
- Jewish perspectives on abortion diverse, often oversimplified | News, Sports, Jobs - Williamsport Sun-Gazette - August 12th, 2022
- Groundbreaking album breathes new life into nearly abandoned Jewish musical art - Forward - August 12th, 2022
- Synagogue plan rejected in Haverstraw; RLUIPA litigation threat looms - The Journal News - August 12th, 2022
- Mormons are being oppressed and mocked on TV. We're not alone. - Religion News Service - August 8th, 2022
- Lufthansa will create a position to fight antisemitism after kicking more than 100 Hasidic passengers off a flight - JTA News - Jewish Telegraphic... - July 31st, 2022
- What sort of Yiddish did Jews in Hungary speak? - Forward - July 31st, 2022
- What the Polio Case in New York Tells Us About the End of Polio - Kaiser Health News - July 31st, 2022
- Rockland County police searching for white Ford F-150 truck in connection to recent attacks on Hasidic Jews - CBS New York - July 19th, 2022
- De Blasio quits crowded race for Congress in heavily Jewish district - Forward - July 19th, 2022
- Jewish group sues Long Island beach town over turning its worship land into a lifeguard center - Washington Times - July 19th, 2022
- Progressives Have Abandoned Haredi Children - Jewish Currents - July 16th, 2022
- At this Yiddish music festival, tradition is everything and nothing J. - The Jewish News of Northern California - July 16th, 2022
- How American Jews (stayed) white | David E. Bernstein | The Blogs - The Times of Israel - July 14th, 2022
- At a Yiddish music festival in bucolic Massachusetts, tradition is everything and nothing - Forward - July 14th, 2022
Comments