Summer 2025 Reading List: New Books by Rachel Cusk, Douglas Stuart, Rebecca Solnit

Key facts

• Douglas Stuart's third novel 'John of John' is set on Harris in the Scottish Outer Hebrides in the 1990s.
• Lucy Caldwell's 'Devotions' includes the story 'Hamlet, a Love Story' about grief.
• Rebecca Solnit's 'The Beginning Comes After the End' discusses change in race, gender, consumerism, and environment.
• Andrew Durbin's 'The Wonderful World that Almost Was' is a joint biography of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek.
• Brian Dillon's 'Ambivalence' is a memoir critiquing education and academia.
• Lauren Elkin's 'Vocal Break' examines women's singing voices and power.
• Siri Hustvedt's 'Ghost Stories' recounts her 43-year relationship with Paul Auster, who died in 2024.
• Jay McInerney's 'See You on the Other Side' concludes the Calloway series during COVID-19.
• Valeria Luiselli's 'Beginning Middle End' follows a mother and daughter in Sicily.
• Rachel Cusk's 'Life of M' is about a biographer writing about a silver screen star.
• Publication dates: 'John of John' out now, 'Life of M' on 27 August 2025.
• The list appears in Another Magazine.
• Books are published by Pan MacMillan, Faber, Granta, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Vintage, Sceptre, Bloomsbury, Fourth Estate.
• The list includes novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and short stories.