Talking Politics

Regular Talking Politics contributors tell us about the books they’ve most enjoyed reading, and what they are looking forward to reading next. We've added the list of books mentioned below, but have deliberately not linked through to online purveyors: if you're shopping for summer reads, please take this list into your favourite local bookstore...

What we have been reading:
- Aaron Rapport: The Power by Naomi Alderman
- Helen Thompson: The Radetzky March and The Emperor’s Tomb by Joseph Roth
  Memoirs of an Anti-Semite and The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
- Andrew Preston: 1491: The Americas before Columbus by Charles Mann
- Jennifer Cobbe: Repeal The 8th: A Collection of Stories, Essays, Poetry and Photography around the Movement for Reproductive Rights in Ireland, edited by Una Mullally
- David Runciman: American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld;
  The Nominee by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Chris Brooke: Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Odyssey
- Chris Bickerton: The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon
What we plan to read this summer:
- Aaron: Hopefully the next in the Saga graphic novel series: written by Brian K. Vaughan, and illustrated by Fiona Staples
- Helen: Crashed by Adam Tooze
- Andrew: Watergate, A Novel and Finale, A Novel Of The Reagan Years by Thomas Mallon
- Jennifer: Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies by Woodrow Hartzog
- David: The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
  The unabridged audiobook of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan read by Peter Wickham
- Chris Brooke: Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn
- Chris Bickerton: The Occupation Trilogy by Patrick Modiano

You can also find a carefully-curated reading list to support each of our summer guides over at lrb.co.uk/guides.