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Join us for monthly reading challenges! Each month we'll post a genre or topic along with some examples. Feel free to post the title or titles you pick and discuss them here.

The June topic is adult literary fiction. Here are some examples:






Happy reading!

In her second memoir, Jenny Lawson describes her battle with mental illness with unflinching honesty and hilarious abandon. Never one to shy away from her own personal brand of “weird”, Jenny tells stories about the randomly absurd things that happen to her. In other parts of the book, she goes into heartbreaking detail about what it’s like to live with mental illness. In these passages, she reaches out to readers and implores them to remember that they are not alone in their struggles. Most importantly, Jenny shows how she has learned to celebrate the joy in life.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever.

Wall Street Journal sports columnist, Jason Gay, offers a hilarious and poignant guidebook on living. He uses examples from his own life to illustrate how to appreciate the life you already have instead of worrying about what you might be missing. This book provides advice on everything from dealing with stress, parenting, and job satisfaction while also reminding us that there is no such thing as the perfect life.

You Will Know Me

This novel reveals some of the disturbing details behind what it's like for young girls, and their families, who reach elite status in competitive gymnastics: the impact on their young bodies, the conflicts between parents, and the siblings that are left behind in families where all of the focus goes to one talented child. Throw in the suspicious death of a young man, the boyfriend of a coach, and you won't be able to put this book down.

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

Known for her wryly humorous and astute accounts of historical events, Sarah Vowell presents a fascinating portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette, the brash young French nobleman who joined the Continental Army and became a Revolutionary War hero and a beloved figure to the American people. As we learn about Lafayette’s role in the Revolution, Vowell brings the founding fathers to life with her snarky insight into their personalities and even their shortcomings. This is the story you didn’t read in your high school history textbook.

Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

When it comes to investigating the weird science behind every facet of human existence, Mary Roach describes herself as “the goober with a flashlight, stumbling into corners and crannies, not looking for anything specific but knowing when I’ve found it.” In Grunt, she shines her light on the military and its efforts to train and protect its soldiers. We learn about intriguing topics such as why the military tested red underwear on soldiers in 1908 and the development of non-lethal weapons such as stink bombs. Roach also explores more serious subjects such as the studies about the injury patterns on soldiers travelling in vehicles hit by IEDs with the same compassion and humor that will show you a side to the military that you’ve never seen before.

This is the place to talk about any recently published books that you've read, especially any debut authors that you've enjoyed.

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Join Something to Read About, the monthly book club newsletter from Simon & Schuster today and enter the giveaway for a bundle of 10 books!

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The 2016 Lariat Reading List is out! The annual list of Lariat award winners calls attention to outstanding fiction published during the year that merit special attention from adult readers. Chosen by a special committee of the Texas Library Association, the main criteria for selecting books for the Lariat List is that they are “a pleasure to read.”

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