10 books you should read in August, including Michael Mann’s Heat 2 and T.J. English’s Dangerous Rhythms

Also check out Scenes From My Life, a moving memoir from late actor Michael K. Williams

By Cat Auer | July 28, 2022 | 8:00am

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10 books you should read in August, including Michael Mann’s Heat 2 and T.J. English’s Dangerous Rhythms

Clockwise from bottom left: Complicit (Image: Simon & Schuster), Witches (Image: Catapult), Didn’t Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta (Image: Brown), Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz And The Underworld (Image: William Morrow), A Career in Books: A Novel About Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun (Image: Plume) Graphic: Libby McGuire

Every month, a deluge of new books comes flooding out from big publishers, indie houses, and self-publishing platforms. To help you navigate the wave of titles arriving in August, The A.V. Club has narrowed down the options to 10 of the books we’re most excited about, including an exploration of the ways jazz and the mob intertwined, an on-page follow-up to the on-screen classic Heat, a biography of Man Ray’s muse, and a memoir from the late Michael K. Williams.

A Career in Books: A Novel About Friends, Money, And The Occasional Duck Bun

Kate Gavino (August 2, Plume)A love of books radiates throughout writer-illustrator Kate Gavino’s new graphic novel, in which a trio of newly graduated and debt-laden Asian American besties pursue their dreams in New York City’s often infuriating publishing industry. Bonding with a 90-something prize-winning author whose novels have fallen off the radar helps the young women sharpen and clarify their own ambitions. Gavino, creator of Last Night’s Reading, knows her way around the literary landscape. A well-told story about friendship and the importance of fighting for your space and for what you want, A Career In Books may especially appeal to those who have led that assistant life, who always read the acknowledgments, and who don’t need to google Binky Urban.

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