10 books to add to your reading list in June

On the Shelf 10 June Books For Your Reading List If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Rogues, ornery females and the odd tea-leaf reader populate the pages of this month’s recommended books, which range across settings including a medieval village, a dystopian future and the landscape of two world wars. Lapvona By Ottessa Moshfegh Penguin Press: 320 pages, $27 The edgy novelist’s new book imagines a wholly realistic medieval village rife with plagues and schemes and dastardly characters. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I By Lindsey Fitzharris FSG: 336 pages, $30 Many screen adaptations of World War I stories feature a soldier with a full or partial face mask of painted tin; plastic surgeon Harold Gillies saw the necessity for these but believed he could do better. How to Raise an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi One World: 288 pages, $28 Kendi’s latest, which is the June selection of the L.A. Times Book Club, combines his personal experience as a parent with his scholarly expertise in showing how racism affects every step of a child’s life, even while in utero: His wife, a Black doctor, had many of her valid prenatal concerns dismissed.