TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin

Available July 5th, this coming of- age story will be one of my top books of the year! It is about two friends who meet as children and grow up to become successful and famous video game creators. Note: You do not have to like video games to enjoy this novel. I was absolutely obsessed while reading this. The book flows as if it’s playing out before you, like a video game. I loved these characters; I cried twice. The commentary on creative art, friendship, cultural appropriation and the sexism of the ’80s and ’90s resonated throughout my Xennial mind. This book is just so rich in its plot, characters and delivery. Read it and then come find me and let’s talk about it. Don’t wait till tomorrow.

Join Tim and author Gabrielle Zevin on Instagram Live https://www.instagram.com/timtalksbooks/ on Tuesday, July 5, 6 p.m. EDT.

FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliot Dark

One of my “book whisperers” is Manda Riggs of Elm Street Books in Connecticut and she has been raving about Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark, proclaiming this as her favorite book so far this year. It’s one of those big books that you just get lost in no matter what is happening during a busy summer. When you turn the last page, you are sorry to leave its characters and story, and you contemplate starting over on page one to read and experience it again. Make a point to pick this one up July 5th.

ASYLUM by Edafe Okporo

This is a memoir and manifesto by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist. Edafe Okporo, who was attacked by a violent mob in Abuja, Nigeria, for being gay, fled to America and spent the next six months in an immigration detention center. This moving and eye-opening story is about refugees, gay rights, immigration reform and the resilience of one man to rise above it all and be a voice for refugees everywhere.

Join Tim in talking with Edafe Okporo about his moving and harrowing story on Thursday, July 28, at 6 p.m. at the Nantucket Atheneum. This event is free to the public and seating is first come, first served.

THE HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand

New York Times bestselling author and my “work wife,” Elin Hilderbrand is no stranger to N Magazine, and this, her twenty-eighth novel, just might be her best yet. Welcome to The Hotel Nantucket! There is a reason Elin is hailed as the “Queen of the Beach Reads.” There are enough diverse people and personalities, Nantucket nostalgia, drama, seafood, beachy vibes and island style to fill her Hotel Nantucket for several summer seasons. There is even a ghost, a chambermaid from 1922 haunting the hotel with her own story to tell. Don’t miss the Blue Book in the back, Elin’s Nantucket recommendation guide.

You can meet Elin every Wednesday this summer at Mitchell’s Book Corner from 11 a.m. to -12 p.m. Elin and Tim will also be talking on Thursday, August 4, for “An Evening with Elin” at the Nantucket Hotel, featuring a fashion show, summer cocktails and details from the book all benefiting the Nantucket Book Foundation. Get tickets at nantucketbookfestival.org.

WITH PREJUDICE by Robin Peguero and THE LOCAL by Joey Hartstone

Guilty as charged! My favorite type of summer beach read is a legal thriller. I love suspenseful courtroom scenes, legal jargon and the thrill of a case. With Prejudice by Robin Peguero and The Local by Joey Hartstone deliver all the action and legal thrills I crave. These books reminded me of John Grisham’s early novels, and while entertaining for the beach or by the pool, they both offer profound commentary on justice, courtroom semantics, humanity and prejudice.

LAPVONA by Ottessa Moshfegh

If you’ve ever read a book by Ottessa Moshfegh, you know her books are a bit, for lack of a better word, odd, and this one abandons her usual contemporary setting for a village in a medieval fiefdom. Lapvona is a dark fairy tale that I read in a trancelike state as I followed little Marek, an abused son of the village shepherd, all the way to the castle of the governor and depraved lord Villiam.

ROGUES: TRUE STORIES OF GRIFTERS, KILLERS, REBELS AND CROOKS by Patrick Radden Keefe

One of the most decorated journalists of our time and the author of two amazing nonfiction books, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe is back this summer with Rogues, a collection of twelve of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface, “These articles reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” My favorite of the collection is a story of a death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst.”