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Summer books: Our 50 coolest books for your hottest months

• Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
• Jun 8, 2026
• Jun 8, 2026
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Chicago’s Kathleen Rooney — maybe the city’s least appreciated great writer — has a hit here:“Man Overboard!” (July 7) begins in parody (drunk guy falls off cruise ship) only to land in self-realization (drunk guy floats for days, determined to live). Breezy and touching. (Simon & Schuster/TNS)

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“Spider-Man: Miles Morales, an Exploration” (June 25) is a thin, but ambitious and resonant, cultural consideration of Marvel’s best addition in years, the Black and Latinx remaking of Peter Parker. By Chicago’s Ytasha Womack. (Bloomsbury Publishing/TNS)

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It’s bittersweet to love a perfect beach read in April (as I did), but at least you’ll find these as intended:“Majestic Hills” (Aug. 4), by former Tribune writer Dawn Turner, follows a Black bougie Chicago couple to a new home in a white south suburb, tracing how the brittle politeness between new neighbors quickly curdles into suspicion. (Scribner/TNS)

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Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune

I just asked AI what the reading situation looks like this summer. I asked, knowing very well what it looks like, but I was curious what it would say. AI said that this summer, reading will resemble “flexible, engaging, often digital-forward activities designed to build skills.” Did it mistake my prompt for the ghosts of old school reading lists? It left out the part about naughty nannies and South Side popes and Comiskey Park and feuding Chicago neighbors and cults and Richard Pryor.

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