Each month sees a flood of new books coming out of big publishers, independent houses and self-publishing platforms. The A.V. The A.V. Club reduces the number of options to five books that were the most popular.AdvertisementImage: Coffee HouseVariations On The Body is Mara Ospina's first fiction book. It explores the lives and experiences of Bogot girls and women. These six stories are intimately linked; for example, a sister who is not mentioned in one story becomes the protagonist of the next. Policarpa is the story of an FARC fighter who escapes and writes a thoughtful memoir about her experiences in the jungle. The editor prefers sensationalist writing. Anxious writers might want to skip this section, since the line edits are displayed directly on the page with strikethroughs. Coffee House published this project by Heather Cleary, a translator. The Minneapolis-based newspaper also published her translation of Roque Laraquys Comemadre (one of The A.V. The Club's favourite book of 2018 Variations On The Body will be worth your time if it is even half as good.Image by PenguinAdvertisementWe have a suggestion for those who prefer to listen to their NPR rather than read it: This Is Your Mind On Plants, Michael Pollan's latest project. He is the author of The Omnivores Dilemma, and the best-selling author. This Is Your Mind on Plants, as the title suggests, combines two of Pollans most favorite interests: drugs and plants. He focuses on mescaline and opium and explores why people are so drawn to drugs that alter our consciousnesses. I hope This Is Your Mind will also offer a sage recommendation for drug consumption for the masses.Image courtesy of LiverightAlthough The Book Of Disquiet is not one of the most well-known classics, many who have read Fernando Pessoas unfinished, unfinished autobiography posthumously published often feel strongly about it. Richard Zenith's 1000-page biography about the eccentric Portuguese modernist seems to be only for such readers. Pessoa is a magnet with its energy and charm. Zenith provides a lively, close reading of Pessoa's work and also gives chronologies and biographies for the most important. Pessoa draws on the vast body of published and unpublished work of the multifarious writer to reveal the vibrant inner life of one the 20th century's most outstanding artists.Image: RiverheadAdvertisementKatie Kitamura's prose is a calm and measured affair. It made her first novel, A Separation (a brilliant divorce-meets mystery drama), feel almost like you were reading it through a tornado. The tight, muted sentences suggest an overwhelming tempest just above them. Intimacies is about a woman who is trying to get out of her past. It's this willingness to keep readers on the edge before divulging the complicated emotions behind it all that will serve her well. The protagonist is an interpreter who quits her job to work at The Hague's International Court. She slowly becomes embroiled in new dramas and wonders if she can face herself as she was once.Image: Little, BrownSimon Rich's 2013 collection of short stories, The Last Girlfriend on Earth, explored the pitfalls and sometimes highs of modern dating. In his novel What In Gods Name, Rich explored faith and yearning in a typically absurd but empathetic way. Rich returns with the hilarious New Teeth to tackle a universal subject: growing up. Rich offers hilarious insight into parenting through stories such as Learning The Ropes. In this story, a pair of pirates care for an adorable little boy. Rich questions the relevance of an older man in a story about a superhero who is on desk duty. He also tells a touching story about found family in Raised By Wolves, where a pair of pirates co-parent a cute little stowaway.By Tom Scharpling (July 6th, Abrams); Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Grady Hendrix (July 13, Berkeley); Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung (July 13, One World); Wayward by Dana Spiotta by Dana Spiotta [July 6th, Knopf]); Big Dark Hole (July 6th, Small Beer Press); A Life In The Making (July 20, Scribner); It Never Endst: A Memoir; Summer Fun by Mena Suvari (July 27, Soho); The Great Peace by Mena Suvari (July 27, Soho 27. By Tom Scharpling, July 6, Abrams; Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke, (July 13th, Berkeley); Ghost Forest, by Pik-Shuen Fuung (July 13th, One World); Elena Knows, by Claudia Pieiro, (July 13th, Charco Press); To Walk Alone in the Crowd by Antonio Muoz Molina, (July 20th, Farrar Straus & &apos); Summer Fun by Mena Suvari, Juy 27 Pantheon); Summer Fun, by Jeanne Thornton (July 27 Soho); Summer Fun by Mena, by Mena, The Great Peace by Mena (July 27 Panheon);
