Summer Reading List Features New Novels by Colson Whitehead, Deborah Levy, and Rachel Cusk

Key facts

• Colson Whitehead's "Cool Machine" is the final book of his Harlem Trilogy, out in July.
• Deborah Levy's "My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein" was published last week.
• Rachel Cusk's "Life of M" and Edwidge Danticat's "Dèy" both release on August 25.
• Ann Patchett's new novel "Whistler" is about a woman reconnecting with her stepfather.
• Keith Ridgway's "Dooneen" is set in a bizarro Dublin.
• Haili Blassingame's debut "They All Fall in Love at the End" explores nonmonogamous relationships.
• Rachel Aviv's "You Won't Get Free of It" is out July 7, collecting essays on mother-daughter dynamics.
• Emily Eakin's "The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory" (July 21) is a memoir about 1980s French theory.
• Erin Maglaque's "Presence: A Hidden History of the Female Body" was published this week.
• Monica Datta's "Nebraska" is about a mother who disappears after prison release.
• Elisa Faison's "Skin Contact" (June 23) follows a couple opening their marriage.
• Molly Fischer recommends Lalla Romano's "In Farthest Seas," an account of her husband's death.
• Liane Moriarty's "Big Little Truths" is a follow-up to "Big Little Lies," out August 25.
• Andrew Sean Greer's "Villa Coco" is mentioned for its Tuscan setting.
• Namara Smith and Victoria Uren are books editors at The New Yorker.