It’s a new month, so I have even more books to check off my personal To Be Read list! You can check out April’s TBR here.
I started two of books in May, but have not finished them, so they are carrying over into my official June list. I’m especially excited by these choices, as some of these are fave authors of mine.
And now, without further ado, here are my picks for June 2024:
Take Your Brain Back: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head and How to Get It Out
by Kara Loewentheil
I first found Kara Loewentheil through her internationally top-ranked podcast, UnF*ck Your Brain, and I’ve been a member of her Feminist Self-Help Society (former known as The Clutch) for the past year. In this book, she shares how to close the “Brain Gap” that keeps women feeling anxious and dis-empowered, enabling us to identify the ways that sexist social messages impact our brains and how to rewire our thought patterns to create true, authentic confidence.
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
by Kate Manne
Kate Manne draws on personal experience as well as research to expose how size discrimination and fatphobia hurts everyone and how to fight it. She examines how it operates, leading us to make assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes. Manne emphasizes that the solution to fatphobia isn’t to love our bodies more — we have to dismantle the external forces that control us and create a world that accommodates people of every size.
by Julia Quinn
While I await the second part of Season 3 of the Netflix show “Bridgerton”, I’m reading The Duke and I, which is the first book in the Bridgerton book series by Julia Quinn. This is the story of Daphne Bridgerton, the fourth sibling (of eight) and the first to enter the marriage mart in Regency England.
Daphne and her older brother’s friend, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, enter into a fake courtship so that Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him and Daphne can see her prospects and reputation rise among the eligible bachelors of the ton.
by Abby Jimenez
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it’s now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They’ll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other’s out, and they’ll both go on to find the love of their lives.
by Christina Lauren
This book is by a favorite of mine, the writing duo Christina Lauren, features a romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery chain and his free-spirited artist ex as they fake their relationship in order to receive a massive inheritance.