10 books to add to your reading list in July

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your July reading list. The Coin: A Novel By Yasmin Zaher Catapult: 240 pages, $27 Birkin-bag economics meets colorism and racism and feminism and more — it’s beyond intersectionality — in Zaher’s stunning and surreal debut novel of a young Palestinian woman who lives and teaches in New York City. The Bright Sword: A Novel By Lev Grossman Viking: 688 pages, $35 There’s a scene in the “Barbie” movie in which all of the Kens pretend to ride imaginary horses; it’s taken straight from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” which is, of course, based on the legend of Arthur, King of the Britons. The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973 By Clara Bingham Atria/One Signal: 576 pages, $33 You don’t have to, like me, remember sitting on the living room floor as a child to watch Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs at tennis in order to understand that the years Bingham covers were crucial to the women’s movement. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen By Jon M. Chu with Jeremy McCarter Random House: 304 pages, $32 He’s directed movies like “Wicked,” “In the Heights” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” but in this memoir Jon M. Chu has as much to share about how others can succeed in the film industry as he does about his drama-free upbringing.