7 books you should read this July, including new work by Colson Whitehead, Helen Phillips, Lisa Taddeo, and more
Photo: Vulture Each month, Boris Kachka offers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations. You should read as many of them as possible. See his picks from last month.
$16 at Amazon Buy $16 at Amazon Buy The Need, by Helen Phillips $17 Molly is a paleobotanist enduring the usual joys and torments of early motherhood — and a little bit more than that. One day a person emerges from a toy chest in her home wearing a deer mask; it turns out to be a Molly doppelgänger, making eerie and perversely justified demands.
$19 at Amazon Buy $19 at Amazon Buy The Chain, by Adrian McKinty McKinty’s latest thriller feels as difficult to pull off as the potentially gimmicky scheme at its center: A woman’s child is kidnapped, and in order to secure his release she must kidnap a child in turn, then have the next parent kidnap another. If she fails, her son dies. The key to pulling it off as a novel is the author’s choice of protagonist, Rachel Klein, a philosophy professor battling cancer and a bad marriage.
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