via The Best Books of 2026 So Far, According to THE NEW YORKER
<p><em>Explore </em>The New Yorker<em>‘s Best Books of 2026 so far, grow your nonfiction stacks with the </em>NYT<em>‘s summer picks, and find out why public libraries are addressing e-book pricing. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.</em></p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em>The New Yorker</em>‘s Best Books of 2026 So Far</h2>
<p>The publication we keep in stacks around our homes to let everyone know how smart we are has announced its list of the best books of the year, so far. The list compiles <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2026">2026 books recommended by <em>The New Yorker</em> editors and critics</a>. It’s quite long and includes some buzzy titles like <em>John of John</em> by Douglas Stuart, <em>Kin</em> by Tayari Jones, <em>London Falling</em> by Patrick Radden Keefe, and <em>Famesick</em> by Lena Dunham, but also, as you might expect, some under the radar and indie reads. I’m happy to see two of <a href="https://bookriot.com/most-anticipated-books-of-2026/">my most anticipated books</a> on the list: <em>This Is Where the Serpent Lives</em> by Daniyal Mueenuddin, which also made the <em>NYT</em> best books so far, and <em>The Witch</em> by Marie Ndiaye, translated by Jordan Stump.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><em>The New York Times</em> Chooses Summer’s Best Nonfiction</h2>
<p>And if you need more nonfiction to stack for summer reading, <em>The New York Times</em> has released <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/books/review/the-nonfiction-everyone-will-be-reading-this-summer.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.iUH-.Q7-Fyp553Kn5&smid=url-share">a list of nonfiction’s summer It Girls</a>. These are nonfiction books with June-August 2026 pub dates and include memoirs, guidebooks, and biographies. I have my eyes on a culinary memoir by an Indigenous chef (<em><a title="Buy from Amazon" product-id="059383190X" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059383190X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=boorio-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=059383190X" target="_blank" butter="butter" nofollow="nofollow" data-title="Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef" data-publisher="Penguin Press" data-releasedate="2026-07-14" data-author="Craig, Nephi" data-ean="9780593831908" data-asin="059383190X" class="butter" rel="noopener">Our Knives Will Save Us</a></em> by Nephi Craig), a linguistic history of a racial slur by the scholarly daughter of a comedy great (<em><a title="Buy from Thriftbooks" product-id="1982154500" href="https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101lkCeo/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thriftbooks.com%2Fw%2Fsomething-we-said-richard-pryor-a-notorious-word-and-me_elizabeth-stordeur-pryor%2F58592737%2F" target="_blank" butter="butter" nofollow="nofollow" data-title="Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me" data-publisher="37 Ink" data-releasedate="2026-06-02" data-author="Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur" data-ean="9781982154509" data-asin="1982154500" class="butter" rel="noopener">Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me</a></em> by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor), and a new Harry Belafonte biography (<em><a product-id="0593652703" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593652703/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&tag=boorio-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0593652703" target="_blank" butter="butter" nofollow="nofollow" title="Buy from Amazon" data-title="Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made (Significations)" data-publisher="Penguin Press" data-releasedate="2026-08-04" data-ean="9780593652701" data-asin="0593652703" data-author="Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua" class="butter" rel="noopener">Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made</a></em> by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro).</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Public Libraries Address e-Book Pricing</h2>
<p>Organizations representing a broad swath of public libraries in the U.S. and Canada signed a <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/100488-library-organizations-urge-big-five-to-address-digital-pricing.html">letter urging the Big Five publishers to improve e-book pricing</a> models. Current costs have become unsustainable if not outright untenable, especially for smaller libraries, according to Association for Rural and Small Libraries executive director Kate Laughlin. The group argues that patrons, publishers, and libraries would benefit from open, solutions-driven conversation at a time when digital circulations usage is booming and audiobooks and e-books come with higher price tags than physical copies. </p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">So You Want to Be Well-Read</h2>
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