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Lee Durkee, writer and contributor<\/strong>: I\u2019ll likely spend another summer held hostage by hummingbirds<\/a>. When not cooking nectar at beak-point, I will sit on my cabin porch turning pages on Jake Maynard\u2019s hilariously brilliant Slime Line<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a dark, eloquent, coming-of-age indictment of Alaska\u2019s salmon-processing plants and the best debut novel I\u2019ve read in years. Might also dip into Max Hipp\u2019s extraordinary and extraordinarily raunchy What Doesn\u2019t Kill You Opens Your Heart<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a story collection tailormade for those of us who miss the great Larry Brown. If feeling brave I\u2019ll revisit Siamak Herawi\u2019s Tali Girls<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, an unsparing novel, brutal at times, that documents the downfall of the young women in an Afghan village after the Taliban takes power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author and contributor<\/strong>: I\u2019m reading poolside with my six-pound chihuahua by my side while my teens splash in the water: The Light Eaters<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by Zoe Schlanger, a fascinating look at the hidden world of plant intelligence; and The Stone Home<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by Crystal Hana Kim, an utterly absorbing novel with a moving portrait of a dark time in South Korean history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Heckert, executive editor<\/strong>: If Natasha Trethewey<\/a> penned cereal box copy, my eyes would be glued to the back of Special K. In other words, if the Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. poet laureate writes it, I want to read it, whether it\u2019s poetry, essay, or memoir. I can\u2019t wait to sink into the couch on my screened porch with her latest book, The House of Being<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a meditation on the geographies of her youth in Mississippi and how they seeded her writing life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica B. Harris, author and contributing editor<\/strong>: I will be reading the new Kevin Kwan novel, Lies and Weddings<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. And I\u2019m waiting to read Percival Everett\u2019s James<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. I have to reread [the book that inspired it] Huck Finn<\/em><\/strong><\/a> first. I will be reading it all on the porch on Martha\u2019s Vineyard<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caroline Sanders Clements, associate editor<\/strong>: Like any good Georgia-born English major, I have been transfixed by Flannery O\u2019Connor since I first picked up a compilation of her short stories in high school. And while O\u2019Connor\u2019s bibliography is already impressive, Jessica Hooten Wilson\u2019s latest work, Flannery O\u2019Connor\u2019s Why Do the Heathen Rage?: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, proves that we still have more to learn from the legend. Over the last decade, the scholar and writer has compiled, transcribed, annotated, and added to the 378 pages of an unfinished novel that O\u2019Connor left behind, posthumously presenting a look into what she might have been planning to publish. As we approach the centennial anniversary of O\u2019Connor\u2019s birth, what better time to revisit her works?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill Smith, North Carolina chef and contributor<\/strong><\/strong>: My favorite book of this year so far is Tom Maxwell\u2019s A Really Strange and Wonderful Time<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, subtitled The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989\u20131999<\/em>. It was published in April, and people around here in North Carolina are having a fit over it, but you don\u2019t have to be from Chapel Hill to get it. I\u2019ve been jumping up and down for years yelling that our local musicians are real artists. Now I\u2019ve got this wonderful play-by-play narrative to back me up. I read most of it on a flight to Lisbon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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James Lee Burke, author and contributor<\/strong>: I\u2019ve had my head in Faulkner of late. In fact, my brain wants to get out of the twenty-first century. This summer I would like to reread As I Lay Dying<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>and The Sound and the Fury<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>I think those two books are among the best ever written, and I would like to read them on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans. I think rereading great books is important because we realize that great art is endless. It is like creation, the one activity in our lives that we share with God. That\u2019s not just a metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CJ Lotz Diego, senior editor<\/strong>: From his sunroom in Florida, my dad reads more than pretty much anyone I know, and he won\u2019t stop texting me snippets of this new book by Cal Newport, Slow Productivity<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. A native of Houston, Newton is a contributing writer at the New Yorker<\/em>, a computer science professor at Georgetown, and an absolute pro at putting into words things so many of us feel but aren\u2019t sure how to articulate. I usually roll my eyes at self-help books, but the three main points of Slow Productivity<\/em> hit me right during a G&G<\/em> deadline when I was ready for these reminders: (1) Do Fewer Things; (2) Work at a Natural Pace; (3) Obsess Over Quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriela Gomez-Misserian, digital producer<\/strong>: Every word from the Mississippi-based poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a little bite of joy. I\u2019m excited to have her latest release, a collection of poetic essays, Bite by Bite<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em>on my bookshelf. Her writing explores memories, history, and the heritage behind flavors in the South and beyond. I really admire her ability to transport readers into a sensory-rich space, one that feels real and familiar as she spoons into custardy pawpaws, cracks open crawfish, and slurps up juicy mangoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lindsey Liles, digital reporter<\/strong><\/strong>: Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>came out this spring and is sitting on my dresser, waiting for me to pack it up for some airplane reading on an upcoming trip. It\u2019ll be my first sample of science writer Ayurella Horn-Muller\u2019s work, and I\u2019m excited for the deep dive into the history of an invasive species, and to learn how it\u2019s popping up today in sustainable architecture and restaurant dishes. I\u2019m also curious about Horn-Muller\u2019s exploration of how, as a second-generation American, she sees herself<\/em> in the invasive weed that has in turns been celebrated, hated, feared, and tolerated as it has cemented itself in Southern culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Heckert, executive editor<\/strong>: When the journalist and professor Matt Tullis died suddenly in 2022 at age forty-six, he left behind an adoring family and an unfinished book: Stories Can Save Us: America\u2019s Best Narrative Journalists Explain How<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a terrific compendium of interviews with some of America\u2019s top journalists, whom he had hosted on his popular Gangrey: The Podcast<\/em><\/a>. Some of those writers worked together to finish the project, and I can\u2019t wait to dive into how-do-they-do-it Q&As with the seventy-five-plus masters of their craft featured, including G&G <\/em>contributors Wright Thompson<\/a>, Justin Heckert<\/a> (disclosure: my husband!), Kim Cross<\/a>, Bronwen Dickey<\/a>, Latria Graham<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ace Atkins, author and contributor<\/strong>: I\u2019m currently reading Don Winslow\u2019s epic Danny Ryan trilogy, making my way to his last one, City in Ruins<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. I also just finished Lisa Unger\u2019s incredibly fun latest, The New Couple in 5B<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, certainly a great read for fans of Only Murders in the Building<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beth Ann Fennelly, author and contributor<\/strong>: Habitations<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by New Orleanian Sheila Sundar deserves to top every TBR list.  This debut novel features a young academic who moves from India to the U.S. and navigates falling in love and becoming a mother\u2014it\u2019s sexy and smart and wryly funny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Danielle Wallace, editorial assistant<\/strong>: Whenever I see \u201cnew book\u201d and \u201cLucy Foley\u201d in the same sentence, I internally whoop with excitement. In my favorite novels of hers, such as The Guest List <\/em>and The Hunting Party<\/em>, Foley brilliantly captures whimsical characters who are (usually) caught up in some sort of murder mystery mayhem\u2014then her writing comes and shakes things up at the perfect time with mind-boggling plot twists. As soon as the release date of June 18 arrives, I\u2019m taking my copy of her newest book, The Midnight Feast<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, right to my cozy, newly furnished back porch (unless it\u2019s too hot).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019ll have to battle against Riley Sager\u2019s newest novel,\u00a0Middle of the Night<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, for which book I\u2019ll read first (the book gods have cursed me with two of my favorite authors\u2019 new releases on the same day). Sager, whose prowess in flashbacks and plot twists left my jaw agape throughout\u00a0Lock Every Door\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Home Before Dark<\/em>, continues his craft in his new novel with a thirty-year missing persons case that ties the past to the present (undoubtedly with sit-straight-up plot twists).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emily Daily, newsletter editor<\/strong>: I love thumbing through cookbooks, finding inspiration for new meals to get out of a boring weekday slump. One that\u2019s on my list is Asheville chef William Dissen\u2019s recently published Thoughtful Cooking<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which spotlights his love of seasonal ingredients and his appreciation of the joy of cooking. \u201cOpen a bottle of wine. Turn the music up. Just enjoy,\u201d he told G&G<\/em> in a recent interview<\/a>. The first recipe I\u2019d like to try? His mac and cheese with country ham<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amanda Heckert, executive editor<\/strong>: On a couple of flight legs last month, I devoured a delightful new book by G&G<\/em> contributor Tommy Tomlinson<\/a>, Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, hailed as the first inside account of Westminster\u2014America\u2019s oldest and most beloved dog show\u2014and one dog\u2019s quest to become a champion. But it is about so<\/em> much more, including humans\u2019 relationship to dogs, breed history, and top pups in pop culture. I\u2019ve already bought copies for the canine lovers in my own life: Father\u2019s Day, birthdays, Christmas, sorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vishwesh Bhatt, Mississippi chef<\/strong>: Books by the Oxford, Mississippi, native Ace Atkins are always a great read. I am planning on spending my June trip to the Outer Banks with his latest masterpiece, Don\u2019t Let the Devil Ride<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. And Greg Iles\u2019 Southern Man<\/em><\/strong><\/a> looks like a book that captures the current (under currents?) of where we are as a country right now. I have it at the front my to-read queue for late summer. I\u2019m also looking forward to reading Bite by Bite<\/em><\/strong><\/a> from my friend Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Aimee writes great poetry. Unfortunately, I am not smart enough to do it justice. But a book with smart, witty essays about food and memories? That\u2019s just my cup of tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kinsey Gidick, contributor<\/strong>: I\u2019m counting down the days until I can read Long Island Compromise<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the latest from Taffy Brodesser-Akner\u2014my favorite profile writer and the best-selling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble. <\/em>All I know is that the book has something to do with dashed suburban dreams, but when it comes to the brilliant writing of Akner, that\u2019s more than enough of a teaser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John T. Edge, contributing editor<\/strong>: I read C. H. Hooks\u2019s last novel, Alligator Zoo Park Magic<\/em>, while in St. Augustine, Florida, where those alligators romp and occasionally chomp. In his forthcoming Can\u2019t Shake the Dust<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, set among the strip malls of South Georgia, Hooks writes about people who get sideways at honky-tonks and lose their shirts to payday loan sharks and drive straightaways at dirt tracks, showing the same grit and empathy as his sire, the late great Harry Crews\u2014which is another way of saying that Hooks gets the people of the gray and red clay right.<\/p>

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Elizabeth Florio, digital editor<\/strong>: Plan to stay up late with Secrets of Ash<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the debut novel from Atlanta journalist (and G&G <\/em>contributor) Josh Green. Inspired by Green\u2019s past reporting on PTSD-afflicted veterans, the book alternates between the perspectives of Chase Lumpkin, a haunted ex-soldier who sets off into the North Georgia wilderness to end it all, and Jack, a hotshot Atlanta radio host on a desperate mission to save his brother. The book, which earned Green a Georgia Author of the Year nomination, is a fine marriage of fast-paced plot and elegant, place-driven prose\u2014\u201cThe Amicalola range lumped off in blue distance, and dying leaves smeared the foothills yellow and red\u201d\u2014that echoes Deliverance<\/em> in the rugged, sometimes sinister setting and the city slicker who plunges into it.

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Garden & Gun has an affiliate partnership with <\/em>bookshop.org<\/em><\/a> and may receive a portion of sales when a reader clicks to buy a book.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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