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June 2026

Readers' Picks

Discover what our readers have added to their bookshelves this month—ancient literature through a new lens, never-before-seen images from the Manhattan Project, a breakdown of the US tax code, and more.

 
Odyssey

Now available in paperback

“This may be the best translation of The Odyssey yet.”

- Edith Hall, The Telegraph

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Trinity

Explore the scientific crescendo of the Manhattan Project through newly contextualized and never-before-seen photographs from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s legacy collections—some just declassified.

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Penelope's Bones

Now available in paperback

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.

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Inventing the Renaissance

Now available in paperback

A New Yorker Best Book of 2025

An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.

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Talking Classics

"If classics had a grande dame, it is the actual Dame Mary Beard.... Talking Classics is full of Beard's old joy at the unexpectedness of ancient realities."

- New York Times

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The Second Estate

Named one of the Best Books of 2025 by The New Yorker:

“The U.S. tax code is around seven thousand pages long; Madoff makes its failures gripping and accessible in a book that can be read, with as much pleasure as indignation, in an afternoon.”

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