Our Editors’ Favorite Pre-Prime Day 2024 Book Sales

The most recent Esquire Book Club reading is one of our favorite, most lucid takes on the state of AI in our world. Madhumita Murgia, the AI editor at The Financial Times, isn’t looking at the Silicon Valley movers and shakers. She’s looking at how AI interferes with the daily life of real, and often already marginalized, people.

It’s Tom Selleck Summer. Tap in for words of wisdom from the man who’s popping up on moodboards everywhere.

How far do we go in separating art and artist? When do we become a fan? Do we, as consumers, really have the power we think we have? Claire Dederer dives into the uncomfortable gray-area questions of being a lover of art in the #MeToo world.

The Pope of Trash has told Variety that there’s a script in for Liarmouth, and Aubrey Plaza is cast. All we, the general public, can do now is pray we get another John Waters film after 20 years. In the meantime, you can read the book if you haven’t already.

Big Tech is the big thing of our time. While plenty of people have poked fun at Silicon Valley’s sweet words and sour actions, few have done it as skillfully as Joanne McNeil. Wrong Way is the satire that the Gig Economy deserves.

Westerns have a future, and hopefully they’ll look something like The Bullet Swallower from Elizabeth Gonzalez James. As action packed as anything that’s come before it, but more unflinching about the myths of the West, it’s a beautiful addition to the genre.

About 10 years after it was published, David George Haskell’s The Forest Unseen feels as fresh as ever. Occasionally poetry, occasionally prose, occasionally nitty-gritty scientific writing—it’s a great one to read if you loved Richard Powers’s eco-epic The Overstory.

A page-turning thriller set in a New Hampshire town with morally deplorable characters like a corrupt sheriff, violent cult leader, and conniving corporation. Max Thrax’s neo-noir debut is one to take notice of.