Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 2



1959 Lysergic Acid by Allen Ginsberg

2015 A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri | US | 320 |

2015 Finders Keepers by Stephen King | US | 434 |

2020 Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri | US | 240 |

2020 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | US | 352 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†

2020 A Burning by Megha Majumdar | IND | 304 | πŸ†πŸ†

2020 All I Ask by Eva Crocker | CAN | 320 | πŸ†

2020 The Diamond House by Dianne Warren | CAN | 384 | πŸ†πŸ†

2020 Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino | US | 240 | πŸ†

2020 Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued | Argentine | 192 |

2020 Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball | US | 416 |

2020 The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by WayΓ©tu Moore | US-Liberia | 272 |

2026 A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict | US | 399 |

2026 How to Lose Yourself Completely by Peter Bognanni | USA | 352 |

2026 Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim | US | 368 |

2026 Meeting New People by Daniel M. Lavery | US | 278 |

2026 My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy | South Africa | 230 |

2026 Rebellious: The Story of Keith Haring in 12 Pictures by Michael G. Long | US | 264 |

2026 Collapse by Γ‰douard Louis | FR | 171 |

2026 Motherclown by Harriet Alida Lye | CAN | 352 |

2026 Alan Opts Out by Courtney Maum | US | 339 |

2026 There's Only One Sin in Hollywood by Rasheed Newson | US | 293 |

2026 Land by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 400 |

2026 Whistler by Ann Patchett | US | 304 |

2026 The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen | US | 400 |

2026 Marion by Leah Rowan | US | 336 |

2026 Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt | Scot-GR | 470 |

2026 Man of My Dreams by Olivia Worley | US | 320 |


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