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July 4, 2017By Michael Cader

Booksellers’ July Picks

July 4, 2017By Michael Cader

Spoonbenders, by Daryl Gregory is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for July, and Goodbye, Vitamin, by Rachel Khong is their featured debut (both Indie Next selections as well). The other titles on their best of the month list are:

Sting-Ray Afternoons, by Steve Rushin
Afterlife, by Marcus Sakey
When the English Fall, by David Williams
American Fire, by Monica Hesse
Who Is Rich?, by Matthew Klam
What We Lose, by Zinzi Clemmons
The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo, by Ian Stansel
The Outer Cape, by Patrick Dacey

iBooks goes their own direction, with July selections that include two titles (noted with an asterisk) excerpted in our Spring/Summer 2017 Buzz Books collection:

Fiction
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
Tornado Weather, by Deborah Kennedy*
The Dark Dark, by Samantha Hunt
Fitness Junkie, by Plum Sykes and Jo Piazza
The Necklace, by Claire McMillan

Nonfiction
The Darkening Web, Alexander Klimburg
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8, by Naoki Higashida
American Fire, by Monica Hesse
In Vino Duplicitas, by Peter Hellman*
A Stone of Hope, by Jim. St. Germain

Barnes & Noble also picks fiction by Kennedy and McMillan, alongside:

Watch Me Disappear, Janelle Brown
Where Light Falls, by Allison Pataki and Owen Pataki
Domina, by L.S. Hilton
The Wilding Sisters, by Eve Chase
The Secret Diary of Henrik Groen, by Hendrik Groen
The Almost Sisters, by Joshilyn Jackson
Gork, The Teenage Dragon, by Gabe Hudson
Meddling Kids, by Edgar Cantero

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