Staff Picks June 2024
Ask this crew for beach reads, and you get serial killers and…well, more serial killers. But also distressed stand-up comics. Happy summer!
All the Colors of the Dark
by Chris Whitaker
“I have not been this deeply moved by a book in a very long time. Fully expecting a quick, easy thriller, I instead got a gripping saga about a Rust-Belt town forever changed by a shocking crime. Fans of Demon Copperhead will fall in love with the heartfelt, hopeful, and surprisingly humorous characters and richly textured setting.”
- Chris
Butcher
by Joyce Carol Oates
“Silas Weir—the chronically insecure and increasingly powerful ‘father of gyno-psychology’—performs gruesome experiments on women in the New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics. Based on authentic historical documents from the 19th century, Butcher is a harrowing account of systemic cruelty, human endurance, and their lingering effects on today's political landscape.”
- Sierra
Good Material
by Dolly Alderton
“Andy, a not quite up-and-coming stand-up comedian, is blindsided when Jen, the love of his life, ends their relationship. Dolly Alderton tells a clever, painfully relatable story about the very different sides of a break up and the hilariously unhinged things we do to mend our broken hearts.”
- Cara
Middle of the Night
by Riley Sager
“A backyard campout gone wrong is the setting for Riley Sager's "Middle of the Night;" a perfect summer thriller. Upon returning to this childhood home, Ethan Marsh keeps seeing indications his friend Billy, who disappeared 20 years prior, may still be alive. That, or, something supernatural is at play . . .”
- Michael
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