President Barack Obama Shares His 2024 Summer Reading List: Here's Where to Find All of the Books

James draws inspiration from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and tells the story of Jim, an enslaved man who overhears he will be sold to a new man and separated from his family.

Hanif Abdurraqib's memoir There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension has been highly praised since its release in March. The author details growing up in Columbus, Ohio, during the golden age of basketball and the poignant impact the sport had on his life.

Written by Jonathan Blitzer, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis tells the story of migrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala as they flee their countries in desperation with hopes of finding safety in the States. 

Marilynne Robinson details the promise of God and the profound meanings found in the Bible's book of Genesis in her work Reading Genesis.

Eight teenage girls are in Reno, Nevado for a boxing competition hoping to win the title "Best in the Country" in Rita Bullwinkel's novel Headshot. The book tells the story of each competitor and the sacrifices they've made along the way.

Set in the 1970s, The God of the Woods takes place at a summer camp where one teen, who is also the camp owner's daughter, goes missing. Even stranger, this isn't the first time someone from the family has disappeared in these circumstances. 

Beautiful Days by Zach Williams is a collection of ten stories that "show the fallibility of time and how reality reveals itself behind the gauze of a dream—or a nightmare."

Cyrus Shams has had a life filled with tragedy after his mother died in a plane crash when he was a child. Now struggling in his adult life, Cyrus looks into his past and realizes things might not be as they seem in Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar.

Following three lifelong friends from their school years into their professional lives, Memory Piece explains the changing nature of friendship and the struggle of not receiving the future promised.

The Ministry of Time is spy thriller with a mix of time travel and romance. When a civil servant begins working a new time travel project, she must decide if falling in love is worth the consequences of changing history.

John Ganz's book When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s explains the surge of conspiracy theories, increased anger and more turbulent America during the '90s.

Detailing the profound social and economic changes of society as well as the improved lives of women in recent years, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard V. Reeves explains the difficulty men face with lives that have remained unchanged (and even worsened) in the same time frame.

Learn about the voyages of British Captain James Cook during the Age of Enlightenment and his untimely death in Hampton Sides' book The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.

Adelle Waldman's novel Help Wanted focuses on big-box retailer workers who band together and form an unlikely alliance in hopes of a better future when a management position opens.