Books you should read in June, including How To Raise An Antiracist, the new David Sedaris, and Daddy Issues

Also check out By Her Own Design, Lapvona, and I'd Like To Play Alone, Please, and more

By Alison Foreman | June 2, 2022 | 12:00pm

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Books you should read in June, including How To Raise An Antiracist, the new David Sedaris, and Daddy Issues

(Clockwise from bottom-left): Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company); How To Raise An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World); For The Throne by Hannah Whitten (Orbit); Lapvona: A Novel by Ottessa Moshfegh (Penguin Press); Bitch: On The Female Of The Species by Lucy Cooke (Basic Books); Nora Ephron: A Novel by Kristin Marguerite Doidge (Chicago Review Press); I’d Like To Play Alone, Please by Tom Segura (Grand Central Publishing); Blood Orange Night: My Journey To The Edge Of Madness by Melissa Bond (Gallery Books)

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 coming to shelves this June, The A.V. Club has narrowed down the options to 10 of the books we’re most excited about.

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris (Little, Brown and Company, June 1)Nobody wants to relive the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. But Happy-Go-Lucky makes a compelling case for at least revisiting them with beloved humorist David Sedaris. In this collection of personal essays, the 65-year-old New Yorker talks through the ups, downs, and down-downs of weathering one of the worst public health disasters in human history. From his musings on masks and social distancing to deeper reflections on the vile mudslide that is the modern political landscape, Sedaris uses Happy-Go-Lucky to once again cement his place as an unwavering, essential voice in American literature.

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