Summer is here and we are looking for that perfect book to bring along for all our vacation adventures. As always we’ve got you covered! ARTNOIR has collaborated with, Nicole Counts, Assistant Editor at One World, who shares her top 5 books to read this summer! Happy Reading.

Nicole Counts is an Assistant Editor at One World, an imprint of Random House, a freelance writer, documentary film producer, and a facilitator and mentor with Girls Write Now, New York’s first and only writing and mentoring organizations for girls. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

The Changeling by Victor LaValle
A retelling of a classic fairy tale imaginatively explores parental obsession, spousal love, and the secrets that make strangers out of the people we love the most.

WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
WHEREAS uses short lyrics, prose poems and much more to confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes.

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
A beautiful novel that tell the tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico using a mix of romance, wit and recipes and remedies.

Three Plays by August Wilson
Tip from Nicole: Any and all of August Wilson’s plays are brilliant, funny, moving, and layered. This book includes three and is a good starter set!

LaRose by Louise Erdrich
A powerful exploration of loss, justice, and the reparation of the human heart!