HalmetHub / June 27, 2020

Lazy summer days are meant for reading. Even if your beach vacation has turned into a staycation this summer, the slower pace of the season is perfect for diving into a good book. I like to read a mix of books: ones that make me think, ones that distract me, and ones that make me laugh. Here’s a few (all available at your local bookstore) that will be in my bag this summer.

Stylist / July 03, 2020

Update your reading list with books out in summer 2020. What makes a great summer read is a very personal taste: from a trip down memory lane with the classics, finally picking up that doorstopper (The Mirror And The Light, we’re looking at you) or catching up on this year’s must-reads, this is the season to properly lose yourself in your favourite sort of books.

Forbes / June 29, 2020

Goodreads has released their top 10 most popular 2020 debut novels released from February through June of this year, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Culled from the site’s listing of the most popular books published in 2020, the list uses a combination of Goodreads members adding these titles to their “want to read” lists and the books’ number of ratings.

Dazed / July 10, 2020

Juan Felipe Herrera’s poetry paints a portrait of struggle and violence, while Jenny Kleeman reflects on the future of sex, and Eliza Clark’s debut is a dark and twisty comedy

Irish Times / July 18, 2020

Book review: Frances Cha takes a soapy glimpse into the dystopian world of beauty and plastic surgery

Prospect / July 21, 2020

Frances Cha had been a journalist in Seoul for several years, reporting on the culture and trends in South Korea’s megacity for CNN. Then, she decided to turning to fiction, exploring the worlds she came to know so well in her novel If I Had Your Face. Her debut explores the lives of four women living in Seoul, and takes a forensic look at the many challenges faced by millennials living in the ever-changing city today. 

Chicago Tribune / July 15, 2020

Summer is traditionally the season for light reading, and right now we might be more in need than ever of something effervescent. Enter — thank goodness — Kevin Kwan. The author of the delightfully frothy "Crazy Rich Asians" trilogy is back with a new novel, just in time for all those vacations we're not taking. His new book isn't a continuation of the ultrarich Young family's "Crazy Rich Asians" world (though alert readers will notice at least one cameo appearance by a beloved character from the trilogy); instead, it's an homage to E.M. Forster's "A Room with a View," set in the present and crammed full of over-the-top wedding weekends, designer clothes and name-dropping.

Daily Mail / July 16, 2020

nother assured debut which opens a window into an entirely different world. Set in the materialistic, appearance-focused and deeply misogynistic world of contemporary Seoul, it is full of beauty salons, extreme aesthetic surgery and the ‘salon rooms’ where rich men pay beautiful young women to treat them like the kings they are not.

Greater Milwaukee Today / July 23, 2020

Summer is traditionally the season for light reading, and right now we might be more in need than ever of something effervescent. Enter — thank goodness — Kevin Kwan. The author of the delightfully frothy “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy is back with a new novel, just in time for all those vacations we’re not taking. His new book isn’t a continuation of the ultrarich Young family’s “Crazy Rich Asians” world (though alert readers will notice at least one cameo appearance by a beloved character from the trilogy); instead, it’s an homage to E.M. Forster’s “A Room with a View,” set in the present and crammed full of over-the-top wedding weekends, designer clothes and name-dropping.

The Straits Times / August 04, 2020

1. (1) Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan 2. (2) Last Tang Standing by Lauren Ho 3. (4) The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa 4. (3) Normal People by Sally Rooney 5. (7) If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha