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Goodreads asked Owen King:

What books are on your summer reading list this year?

Owen King Doing a lot of research reading at the moment, but I'm hopeful that I'll have a bit of free time to read The Forgotten Girl by Rio Youers, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris, Hunger by Roxane Gay, A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, and Hilary Mantel's sequel to the amazing Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies. My eyes are bigger than my stomach, though, so I'll be doing well to go 3 for 6.

If you're looking for a recommendation, I give my highest one to The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, which tells the story of the ruination that spreads ever-outward from a terrorist attack in a small market in Delhi. Mahajan's such a marvelous stylist and so astute in his characterizations. It's devastating, but well worth it.

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