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.

Ben And Beatriz

Katalina Gamarra (August 2, Graydon House) It’s been a tough couple of years, but some great stuff has come out of the pandemic, including this unapologetically sexy, smart and fun romantic romp from Katalina Gamarra. (If you’re not picking up what the title is laying down, revisit your Complete Shakespeare.) Too hot and rich for his own good, Ben has abs of steel, a stifling WASP family and a secret Austen habit. Beatriz is brainy, bisexual, biracial, and understandably bitter about how Ben’s racist family treats her when she’s dragged to his house for a week as a favor to her cousin. These two Harvard hotties can’t stand each other… or can they? Prepare to embark on a journey of horniness, hatefucking and heaps of character growth. All aboard!

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