The Best Books for the Beach This Labor Day Weekend

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• The Book: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
  Picked By: Lexi Beach, Astoria Bookshop
  
• The Book: Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
  Picked By: Ryan Jaworksi,
• The Book: The Big Book of the Hamptons by Michael Shnayerson
  Picked By: Noreen Chadha,
• The Book: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
  Picked By: Ryan Jaworksi,
• The Book: The Fever by Megan Abbott
  Picked By: Lexi Beach, Astoria Bookshop
  
• The Book: Green Girl by Kate Zambrano
  Picked By: Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle, Spoonbill and Sugartown
  The Recommendation: "This sharp, stunn
• The Book: J'aime New York by Alain Ducasse
  Picked By: Noreen Chadha, Mendo at CitizenM
• The Book: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman
  Picked By: Ryan Jaworksi, Book Cult
• The Book: The Magician's Land by Lev Grossman
  Picked By: Lexi Beach, Astoria Bookshop
• The Book: A Private Venus by Giorgio Scerbanenco
  Picked By: Christina Gaughan, Word Bookstore
  
• The Book: Red or Dead by David Peace
  Picked By: Jenn Northington, Word Bookstore
  The Recommendation:
• The Book: The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante
  Picked By: Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle, Spoonbill and Sugartown
  The Recommendation: "The
• The Book: Things That Are by Amy Leach
  Picked By: Emily Pullen, Word Bookstore
  The Recommen
• The Book: Things to Shout Out Loud at Parties by Markus Almond
  Picked By: Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle, Spoonbill and Sugartown
  The Recommendatio

Happy Labor Day weekend! You deserve these next three days off, but just because you're not in the office doesn't mean your brain should shut down. Head outside to enjoy the great weather and bring a book with you—perhaps one that's been recommended to us by the staffs at Mendo bookstore at Citizen M Hotel in Times Square, Word Bookstore in Greenpoint, Spoonbill and Sugartown in Williamsburg, Book Culture in Morningside Heights, or Astoria Bookshop? Scroll through the gallery above to check out their picks.

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