Accessible UX Research
Michele A. Williams
Smashing Media
“Too often, accessibility is treated as an add-on rather than a core component of the user experience. Dr. Williams demonstrates the value of embedding accessibility into projects from the outset—from research and prototype creation to testing and implementation—to create user experiences that are accessible, inclusive, and usable by people with a wide range of abilities and needs.”
Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland
Hannah Kent
Picador/Pan Macmillan
American Hagwon
Min Jin Lee
Cardinal/Hachette Book Group
“Lee is coming out with her next book this fall. I can’t wait to read it. She’s the author of Pachinko, one of my favorite books of all time, and I can’t wait to see what’s next.”
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark
Scribner/Simon & Schuster
“I’ve been fascinated by Roy Cohn since Angels in America. I think a better understanding of him gives us unique insight into history.”
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Crown/Penguin Random House
“This is one of the best novels I’ve read this year. Told through letters and centered on a woman in her 70s, it will both break your heart and leave you with a cozy, warm feeling long after you finish it. I can’t stop thinking about it.”
Culpability
Bruce Holsinger
Spiegel & Grau
“By day, Holsinger is a professor of medieval literature at the University of Virginia. By night, he’s a terrific novelist of modern-day tales. One previous book, The Gifted School, was a comedy–drama about a bunch of parents competitively trying to get their kids into a charter school. This book, which came out last summer, is a psychological thriller about AI, ethics, and family secrets in the aftermath of an autonomous-car crash.”
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Knopf/Penguin Random House
“This book has been on my list for a while, and it was worth the wait.”
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín
Picador/Pan Macmillan
Kala
Colin Walsh
Vintage/Penguin Random House
Kin
Tayari Jones
Knopf/Penguin Random House
“Next on my list is a novel that’s about sisterhood. I don’t know too much about the plot, but the reviews have been great, and the premise is right up my personal reading alley.”
Life: A User’s Manual
Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
Verba Mundi/Godine
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Sophie Elmhirst
Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House
“I guess it’s technically nonfiction, but it reads like a novel. Fascinating, harrowing, and also a great lesson in teamwork!”
Mother Mary Comes to Me
Arundhati Roy
Scribner/Simon & Schuster
“This book manages to weave together history and mother–daughter relationships.”
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers
“This book was recommended by multiple people. The title is self-explanatory, but I haven’t read anything quite like it—likely because so few histories center women’s perspectives. The author and I both came to the United States from the Soviet Union as children, so I especially appreciate the cultural references and personal stories that balance the history.”
My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
Caleb Carr
Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group
“I’ve read a lot of memoirs about animals over the years, and this one may be the best. It’s a beautiful rumination on mortality and longevity.”
Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution
Amanda Vaill
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan Publishers
“I’m currently reading this book, which my husband gifted me over the holidays and which won a Pulitzer this spring. I’m much more of a fiction than nonfiction reader. But the author’s recounting of early American history—largely through the experiences of the two older Schuyler sisters, also of Hamilton fame—and the many roles women played during this period is lively, well paced, and feels timely as we approach America’s 250th birthday. I would highly recommend it, even to fellow fiction lovers.”
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Ballantine Books/Penguin Random House
“I loved the movie, so I had to read the book. Since I’m not a STEM person, I love the way hard science is woven into the story in an accessible way.”
“I started reading this book before the movie came out. I saw the movie while I was halfway through the book. And now I’m almost done with it.”
The Sisters
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan Publishers
“Great writing: It’s about identity, race, and immigration—all things I can relate to.”
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
Daniel Klein
Penguin Books/Penguin Random House
Twice
Mitch Albom
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers
“For all of us who have ever wanted—or desperately needed—a do-over in life, here’s your chance to live vicariously. Mitch Albom finds a humorous, poignant, and empowering way to let readers turn back the clock and experience life and love for a second time. If you had the chance to rectify some critical mistakes, knowing that life would never be the same as a result, would you take it?”
Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan Publishers
“I’m excited about this book because it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2023 and is about a young girl mourning her mother, but it’s also about squash! I don’t know anything about competitive squash, so I’m excited to spend time in that world.”
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
Knopf/Penguin Random House
“It’s SO GOOD. Come for your interest in tradwives; stay for its twists and point of view on modern motherhood.”
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