Barack Obama has shared his summer reading list. One of the books he recommends is EXHALATION by Ted Chiang. Obama says Chiang’s second collection of speculative short stories “will make you think, grapple with big questions, and feel more human. The best kind of science fiction.” Knopf published the book on May 7, 2019.

Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky’s ASTRO POETS, based on their hit Twitter account, is one of PW’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019. Flatiron Books will publish ASTRO POETS on October 29, 2019.

Hannah Orenstein’s LOVE AT FIRST LIKE received lots of love from Bustle, landing on their End-of-Summer Reading and 11 Rom-Coms About Love in the Age of the Internet lists. AP has a wonderful review of LOVE AT FIRST LIKE, picked up in the San Francisco Chronicle. Hannah joined Buzzfeed’s morning show AM2DM to discuss her book and how social media affects relationships. Atria published the book on August 6, 2019.

The New York Times chose HEAVY as one of their 50 best memoirs of the past 50 years. It is, they write, “full of sharp, heart-rending thoughts about growing up black in the United States, and his fraught relationship with his body — Laymon’s weight has severely fluctuated over the years, a subject he plumbs with great sensitivity. This is a gorgeous, gutting book that’s fueled by candor yet freighted with ambivalence. It’s full of devotion and betrayal, euphoria and anguish.” Scribner published the book on October 16, 2018.

Barack Obama, for his summer reading list, testifies that reading Dinaw Mengestu’s HOW TO READ THE AIR will give you “a better sense of the complexity and redemption within the American immigrant story.” Riverhead published the book on October 14, 2010.

Hannah Orenstein’s LOVE AT FIRST LIKE is one of Glamour’s Best Romance Novels, Cosmopolitan UK’s New Good Books to Read, and Buzzfeed’s Best Summer Romance Novels. Atria will publish the book on August 6, 2019.

On July 25, the New York Times published an op-ed by Quinn Slobodian and Alexander Kentikelenis on the same topic as Prof. Slobodian’s forthcoming book HOW TO BREAK THE WORLD. “Right-wing economic nationalists speak of increasing the welfare of ‘their’ people,” Slobodian writes, “but they do so by scapegoating outsiders and turning a blind eye to — if not actively supporting — the very machinery that has helped produce domestic inequality. Without democratizing finance, wealth will never be shared in a way that rewards people fairly for their labor.” Metropolitan will publish the book in 2022.

The latest novel by Danielle Steel will make its debut on the New York Times Bestseller list for the week of July 14th. It will debut at number 3 on the Combined Print & E-book fiction list and number 4 on the Hardcover Fiction list. Dell published the book on June 25, 2019.

Ted Chiang was interviewed in GQ Magazine about his new short story collection EXHALATION. Knopf published the book on May 7, 2019.

Andre Aciman’s sequel to CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was featured by Lit Hub in their list of “Most Anticipated Books of 2019, Part 2.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the book on October 29, 2019.