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On this week’s “Matter of Opinion,” Michelle, Ross, Carlos and Lydia offer their recommendations for your summer reading and lay out what they’re excited to dive into themselves. Plus, listener book picks.

(A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Books mentioned in this episode:

From Michelle:

Thursday Murder Club series, by Richard Osman

“The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder,” by David Grann

From Lydia:

“Slow Horses,” Book 1 in the Slough House series, by Mick Herron

“The Transit of Venus,” by Shirley Hazzard

“Middlemarch,” by George Eliot

“Grant,” by Ron Chernow

“King: A Life,” by Jonathan Eig

From Carlos:

“Trust,” by Hernan Diaz

“The Long Secret” and “Harriet the Spy,” by Louise Fitzhugh

“Conversación en La Catedral,” “Aunt Julie and The Scriptwriter and “The Feast of the Goat,” by Mario Vargas Llosa

“Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose” and “Wise Blood,” by Flannery O’Connor

“Heartburn,” by Nora Ephron, audiobook narrated by Meryl Streep

“The Sellout,” by Paul Beatty

“Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,” “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon” and “The White Darkness,” by David Grann

From Ross:

“The Stand,” “The Institute” and “The Shining,” by Stephen King

“Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia,” by Rebecca West

“Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli,” by Mark Seal

From Matter of Opinion listeners:

The Three-Body Problem trilogy, by Liu Cixin

“The Fisherman and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast,” by Kirk Wallace Johnson

“The Kingdoms,” by Natasha Pulley

“The Education of Kendrick Perkins: A Memoir,” by Kendrick Perkins with Seth Rogoff

“Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver

“Still Life,” by Jay Hopler

“The Tempest,” by William Shakespeare

Maisie Dobbs series, by Jacqueline Winspear

Thoughts? Email us at [email protected].

Follow our hosts on Twitter: Michelle Cottle (@mcottle), Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT), Carlos Lozada (@CarlosNYT) and Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen).

“Matter of Opinion” is produced by Phoebe Lett, Derek Arthur and Sophia Alvarez Boyd. It is edited by Stephanie Joyce. Mixing by Pat McCusker. Original music by Isaac Jones, Carole Sabouraud and Pat McCusker. Fact-checking by Kate Sinclair, Mary Marge Locker and Michelle Harris. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta and Kristina Samuelski. Our executive producer is Annie-Rose Strasser.

Michelle Cottle is a member of the Times editorial board, focusing on U.S. politics. She has covered Washington and politics since the Clinton administration. @mcottle

Ross Douthat has been an Opinion columnist for The Times since 2009. He is the author, most recently, of “The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery.” @DouthatNYT • Facebook

Carlos Lozada became a New York Times Opinion columnist in September 2022, after 17 years as an editor and book critic at The Washington Post. He is the author of “What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era” and the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. @CarlosNYT

Lydia Polgreen has been a New York Times Opinion columnist since 2022. She spent a decade as a correspondent for The Times in Africa and Asia, winning Polk and Livingston Awards for her coverage of ethnic cleansing in Darfur and resource conflicts in West Africa. She also served as editor in chief of HuffPost. @lpolgreen

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