The Best New Books To Read In August 2022

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July 31, 2022
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The best new books to read in August 2022 include debut novels, contemporary fiction, friendship fiction, and historical fiction, unputdownable memoirs, short stories, and timely nonfiction. Enjoy these 10 new highly anticipated August books during the last days of summer, whether you’re on a camping trip or preparing for the upcoming back-to-school and fall season. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of August 2022.

The Best New Books To Read In August

1. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

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Release Date: August 2

About the book: In Mohsin Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine), The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.

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2. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy: A Novel by Jamie Ford

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Release Date: August 2

About the book: The New York Times bestselling author of the “mesmerizing and evocative” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.

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3. Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra

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Release Date: August 2

About the book: The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

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4. Mika in Real Life by Emiko Jean

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Release Date: August 2

About the book: In this brilliant new novel by from Emiko Jean, the author of the New York Times bestselling young adult novel Tokyo Ever After, comes a whip-smart, laugh-out-loud funny, and utterly heartwarming novel about motherhood, daughterhood, and love—how we find it, keep it, and how it always returns.

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5. A Map For the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang

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Release Date: August 9

About the book: An epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post–Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one’s dreams and the lives we leave behind.

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6. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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Release Date: August 9

About the book: A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

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7. Mount Chicago: A Novel by Adam Levin

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Release Date: August 9

About the book: From the award-winning author of Bubblegum and The Instructions, a daring new novel about the absurdity, the humor, and the tragedy of survivorship.

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8. Dead-End Memories: Stories by Banana Yoshimoto

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Release Date: August 9

About the book: Japan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life.

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9. Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes

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Release Date: August 16

About the book: From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, a magnetic tale that centers on the presence of a vivid and particular woman, whose loss becomes the occasion for a man’s deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography.

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10. Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy

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Release Date: August 16

About the book: A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on the front lines of the overdose crisis.

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