11 of the Best Books Out in June

Now that we are firmly in the middle of the year, everyone and their mother’s Best of The Year (So Far) lists are steadily coming out. We’ve even got one on the way ourselves. In the meantime, there are lists from everyone, from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Esquire to Vogue—though our Executive Director of Content, S. Zainab Williams, mentioned how the latter’s list was noticeably lacking in Black authors (boo, hiss). Looking over the lists, there are some shoo-ins listed—like Tayari Jones’s Read Entire Article