Indie Book Picks for the Month

From: Penguin Random House - Tuesday Jul 26,2022 02:03 pm

Expert recommendations for your summer reading.

Take a look at the compelling stories that indie booksellers are recommending for July!

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Moshfegh is the modern bard of violence and delusion ... Captivating and brutal, this is a heady novel of ideas that will grab you hard and shake away any scraps of complacency you might have left.

Chris Lee, Boswell Book Company

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Lapvona

By Ottessa Moshfegh

In the village of a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test. This spellbinding novel represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet.

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As with Blake Crouch's other novels, he pulled me into the alternate world he created for this book almost immediately, and I couldn't put it down until its incredibly climactic conclusion.

Stuart McCommon, Novel

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Upgrade

By Blake Crouch

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity — and our boundless potential.

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I loved this gorgeous, mythic tale of a Caribbean mermaid pulled from the sea ... Haunting and sensual, this is a powerful addition to the canon of Caribbean literature.

Robin Stern, Books Inc.

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The Mermaid of Black Conch

By Monique Roffey

This enchanting tale of a cursed mythical creature and the lonely fisherman who falls in love with her is "a daring, mesmerizing novel ... single-handedly bringing magic realism up-to-date" (Maggie O’Farrell, bestselling author of Hamnet).

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