Bitch Reads June 2020

Few people can quiet their minds enough to read books right now. That's understandable, given the fact that we're in both a pandemic and an uprising. I've long said that when all else fails, we still have pop culture—books, TV shows, movies, plays, podcasts—to give us comfort, but right now, even that doesn't seem as if it's enough. And yet we're still here, once again, to give a list of books to consider reading this month. We know this isn't enough, but we hope this list of a range of books, from young-adult fantasies to poetry collections to nonfiction essay collections, offers even the slightest reprieve from our real-world circumstances.