Book editor of O, the Oprah Magazine Leigh Harber has just revealed the magazines summer reading list. “We looked at how rich the crop of new books was this season and couldn’t wait to share our discoveries, and we had a lot of fun reading and creating intriguing categories around the fabulous books we found.”
The magazine divided it’s reading list into nine categories. Here’s their summer picks:
O Magazine’s List of The Best Books of Summer 2016
Category: Born In The USA
How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
Never a Dull Moment: 1971-The Year That Rock Exploded by David Hepworth
The Lynching by Laurence Leamer
The Hour of the Land by Terry Tempest Williams
Under the Stars by Dan White
Witness to the Revolution by Clara Bingham
Category: Future Shock
The City of Mirrors by Justin Winters
The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
Some Possible Solutions by Helen Phillips
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright
Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
Category: Hear Them Roar
Dating Tips for the Unemployed by Iris Smyles
Hot Little Hands by Abigail Ulman
I’m Just A Person by Tig Notaro
Sex Object by Jessica Valenti
Shrill by Lindy West
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman
Category: American Pastoral
Buffalo Jump Blues by Keith McCafferty
Lions by Bonnie Nadzam
Marrow Island by Alexis M. Smith
Nitro Mountain by Lee Clay Johnson
The Girls by Emma Cline
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
Category: Icons
A Loaded Gun by Jerome Charyn
Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays by Cynthia Ozick
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M.M. Blume
Paul McCartney: The Life by Phillip Norman
The Sun and Moon and the Rolling Stones by Rich Cohen
Category: Love Affairs
I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
Love Wins by Debbie Cenziper
Modern Lovers by Emma Straub
Teardrop Lounge by Alice Adams
The Blackbirds by Eric Jerome Dickey
What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Category: Odyssey
Double Cup Love by Eddie Huang
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
In the Darkroom by Susan Faludi
The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
The Nordic Theory of Everything by Anu Partanen
Category: Sinners and Saints
Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley
The Cook Up by Watkins
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
The Hospital Always Wins by Issa Ibrahim
The Second Life of Nick Mason by Steve Hamilton
Walking the Dog by Elizabeth Swados
Category: The Gilded Cage
Before The Fall by Noah Hawley
Rich and Pretty by Rumaan Alam
Smoke by Dan Vyketa
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty by Ramona Ausubel
This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden
We Could Be Beautiful by Swan Huntley
Category: War & Peace
A Hero of France by Alan Furst
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
Love, Sex and Other Foreign Policy Goals by Jesse Armstrong
Native Believer by Ali Eteraz
The Way to the Spring by Ben Ehrenreich
Tribe by Sebastian Junger
