Book reviews, June 2026
42 books reviewed by the critics in June 2026, most-reviewed first.
Communion
J. D. Vance
0 of 10 critics positive · 12 reviews
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
7 of 9 critics positive · 10 reviews
Tonight the Music Seems So Loud
Sathnam Sanghera
5 of 5 critics positive · 8 reviews
Dooneen
Keith Ridgway
5 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Hu Anyan
5 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
The Traveller
Andrea Wulf
5 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
Ambivalence
Brian Dillon
1 of 3 critics positive · 6 reviews
Dominion
Addie E. Citchens
3 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
The Family Man
James Lasdun
1 of 1 critics positive · 5 reviews
Awake Awake
Fiona Mozley
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Natural Disaster
Lisa Owens
3 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
Stolen Revolution
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Common Good Economy
Mariana Mazzucato
0 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow
2 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
A Little Bit Bad
Cassandra Neyenesch
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young
Zayd Ayers Dohrn
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Frida Slattery As Herself
Ana Kinsella
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Jesus Christ Kinski
Benjamin Myers
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Raveheart
Graeme Armstrong
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Twitnam Summer
Hester Grant
1 of 1 critics positive · 3 reviews
Togetherness
Rowan Hooper
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
A British Childhood
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Collapse
Édouard Louis
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
Fantastic Kingdom
HELENE VON. BISMARCK
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Flamboyance
Jack Parlett
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Kin
Tayari Jones
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Lovers XXX
Allie Rowbottom
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Morbid
Saul Justin Newman
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
My Only Boy
Rosa Rankin-Gee
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
No God But Us
Bobuq Sayed
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Queenie Is Working On It
Candice Carty-Williams
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Artist
Lucy Steeds
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Children
Melissa Albert
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Ruiners
Ellena Savage
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Wash
Erica Wagner
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Wimmy Road Boyz
Sufiyaan Salam
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Disability
David Turner
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Father Alberto and the Flying Girl
Timothy X Atack
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
How to Love the World
Ilka Tampke
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Leveret
Anna Goldreich
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Sisters of Serendib
Ayesha Inoon
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Uses of Utopia
Joad Raymond Wren
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review