15 Books We Read and Loved This Summer

Electric Literature staff and interns are sharing the books that stayed with them this summer, from a debut poetry collection about queer identity to a Singaporean crime novel told in podcast form. The list includes new releases and older favorites, with each pick accompanied by a personal note from the team member who loved it. Among the highlights are Patrick Radden Keefe's London Falling, which examines how Russian oligarch wealth reshaped London, and Emily LaBarge's Dog Days, a memoir that circles around a family hostage crisis without dwelling on the event itself. The full list of fifteen titles is up on Electric Literature's website.

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