20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

For some reason, whenever I sit down to make this list of paperbacks coming out this month, Justin Timberlake’s 2006 hit always gets stuck in my head: We’re bringing paperback (yeah). * Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl (Atria, June 7) “The Other Black Girl is about many things—friendship, the humdrum office culture—but its […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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