June Reading Wrap-Up: Must-Read Books by Nora McCannernney

June Reading List Highlights

• 📚 Nora McCannernney, an author, speaker, and podcaster, shares her favorite books read in June.
• 💡 She emphasizes sharing only books she genuinely enjoyed, as taste is subjective and she receives many advanced reader copies (ARCs).
• 🎁 Subscribers to her Substack can enter to win some of the featured books.

Memoirs and Personal Narratives

• 💔 Better by Ariana Rebolini is a memoir exploring the paradox of still wanting to die despite recovery, research, therapy, and life achievements.
• ✨ Sing to Me by Jesse Browner is a spare and painful novel set during the fall of Troy, focusing on a little boy abandoned and searching for his family.

Thrillers and Mysteries

• ✈️ The Flight Attendant (audiobook) is a thrilling mystery about a flight attendant who wakes up in a hotel room with a dead man and must evade law enforcement and spies.
• 🕵️‍♀️ Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza is a murder mystery thriller set in the world of 'tradives' (influencers), described as 'Gone Girl' meets influencer culture.
• 👯‍♀️ Making Friends Can Be Murder by Kathleen West is a cozy murder mystery set in Minneapolis where a group of friends, all named Sarah Jones, must investigate the murder of another Sarah Jones.

Deep Dives and Social Commentary

• 🧐 The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean is an exploration of obsession, particularly with orchids, and the history of 'orchid madness,' featuring Orlean's reporting and writing.
• 💔 Awake by Jen Hatmaker is a powerful memoir about a life-altering personal crisis, grabbing the reader from the first sentence.
• 💸 The Long Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Government, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington is an enraging audiobook exposing the often-unseen impact of the consulting industry on businesses and economies.