The Books We Can’t Stop Talking About Right Now

As temperatures begin to warm up and we start picturing the lazy park hangs and beach days in store for us this summer, our minds have already started whirring at the reading possibilities. Over the past year, we've turned to reading as both an escape from our current world and a way to explore without leaving home. While we'll be a bit more mobile this summer, our love for books hasn't changed, so we've once again tapped Jynne Dilling Martin associate publisher at Riverhead Books, and Lisa Lucas, senior vice president and publisher of Pantheon and Schocken Books, to help craft the ultimate summer reading list of books written by women. Whether you're itching for a Greek myth retelling, a workplace thriller, a deep dive into the natural world, or a novel about a cannibalistic food writer, we've got you covered. 

Here's a full list of what we talked about:

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner

A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Salvation City, by Sigrid Nunez

Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter by Ali Smith

Sisters by Daisy Johnson

Circe and Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen

The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

Matrix by Lauren Groff

Seek You by Kristen Radtke

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

Find a full transcription of the episode here: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-books-we-cant-stop-talking-about-right-now-women-who-travel-podcast

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