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What You Should Be Reading This Summer

20 books to match some warm-weather moods
Source: Martin Parr / Magnum

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Our summer reading guide is now live! This is our annual feature in which The Atlantic’s writers and editors get a chance to play that slightly pushy character at the backyard barbecue who practically screams out, “I just finished this book, and you need to read it! Right now.”

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s books section:

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