Books to read in July 2025

Critic Bethan Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, imagination and stories, to consider the reading list in July.

It is the formal beach residence season: Whether you read outdoors or inside at an air -conditioned comfort, new hot versions in July will help you stay cold. Topics range from analog memories in the Golden Age in Hollywood to Mavrick athletes. Happy reading!

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In the pursuit of beauty: a novel
Written by Gary Boom
Blackstone: 256 pages, $ 29
(July 1)

Pom, a journalist for the Hollywood Reporter, relies on the knowledge he listened to about plastic surgery and the profession of the protagonist, Dr. Roya Delashad. Dr. Delashad, who is a multi -ethnic and supposed to have been easy, returns herself to a glorious bomb – but then lands in prison. She agreed to look at interviews with a ghost writer named Weiss Eston, who will soon discover the reason for her described “The Robin Hood of Roxbury Drive”.

Writer’s beach: novel
Written by Meg White Clayton
Harper: 320 pages, $ 30
(July 1)

Like a well -decorated Olivity car, this novel moves between Carmel and Hollywood, in two different centuries, easily. In 1957, actress Isabella Giuri hopes to have a professional role in the Hitchcock movie; When its circumstances change and ended with the isolated in a small hut in the Carmel On The C, the Blackwriter Writer in the Black List, Lyon Chazan saves her. In 2018, his script writer finally learns how and why.

Vera, or faith: a novel
Written by Gary Stengart
RAM: 256 pages, $ 28
(July 8)

Vera, the child’s narrator of this new and relevant novel from Shteyngart (“Our Rural Friends”), brings a half-Korea heritage to the Russian and Jewish Bradford-Molkins family. Between my father, Ann Mom, and her longing for her vibrant mother, Vera has a lot to deal with him, while everything she really wants is to help her father and her husband stay married – and make a friend at school. It is a must.

Mendel Station: Novel
By jb hwang
Bloomsbury: 208 pages, $ 27
(July 22)

In the wake of the death of her best friend Esther in Kovid 19, Myriam loses faith almost everything, including God who made her job teaching the Christian Bible in a private school in San Francisco. He has resigned and took a job as a mail holder (as the author also did), not just finding moments of grace from the neighborhood to the neighborhood, but also writing letters to Esther in an attempt to understand the childhood difficulties that are associated with it.

The necessary imagination: a novel
By elogosa osunde
Riverhead: 320 pages, $ 28
(July 22)

The title tells a lot about how strange people live in Nigeria, as well as the structure: Osunde (“Fagabonds!”), Although its chapters read more like short stories. If it is not hung together like a traditional novel, this may be part of this point. Characters like May, or struggling with sexual identity, or ziz, gay man in Lagos, know that their identities do not always hang in traditional ways – this is definitely the point.

Fictional

Central Intelligence Books Club: The secret task of winning the cold war with banned literature
Written by Charlie English
RAM: 384 pages, $ 35
(July 1)

Contracts from the spying of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union included programs that benefited from the cultural media. The “Book Book Club” office was run by the CIA by Emigre from Romania called George Middle, who managed to send 10 million books behind the iron curtain. Some of them were dangerous, yes, but there were Agatha Christie novels, Orwell books “1984” and art as well.

Hiroshima men: seeking to build the atomic bomb, and the fateful decision to use it
By iain Macgregor
Scribner: 384 pages, $ 32
(July 8)

It is important, that the history of Macgregor, which was searched by the same as the atomic bombs that decreased on Japan at the end of World War II, includes Japanese views. The historian (“Charlie’s Inspection Point”) treats the atomic bomb as a weapon for mass killing and less as a scientific base, while it managed to transfer the urgency behind its development of the allied forces.

In her game: Ketlin Clark and the revolution in women’s sports
Written by Christine Brennan
Scribner: 272 pages, $ 30
(July 8)

Let this drown in (largely intended basketball): Caitlin Clark scored more points than any player in the history of the main university basketball. Not only players – male players as well. Now that it is in WNBA as a rising in Indiana fever, Clark attracts this type of fans base that was intended for male basketball stars such as Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Brennan’s long coverage of the Clark profession makes this book Doc.

Classes: stories of deep time
Written by Laura Bobic
Ww Norton & Co: 288 pages, $ 30
(July 15)

Each layer, or layer, from our planet tells a story. The science writer Bouby explains what these millions of classes can tell us about four cases that have changed life significantly, from oxygen that enters the air throughout the way to the era of dinosaurs. Ultimately, you argue that these layers show us that when they are nervous, the earth reacts through change and move towards stability. It is a wonderful peek at the heart of the world that may provide evidence about sustainability.

Budget investigator: mystery, chaos, and a wonderful life of Roxy Leiborn
By Chris Sweeni
Press Reader Press: 320 pages, $ 30
(July 22)

Roxy Leiborne, who was one day, became the first scientist of the world’s forensic specialist in 1960, when the FBA Smithsonian-where Leiborne was a mummified of birds-to help them determine its tear feathers from a deadly plane accident in Boston. She analyzed the samples that contributed to the arrests in racist attacks, as well as hunting fishermen in the game and preventing the death of the fighter pilots. On her way, Leiborne Bids was.