Tia Williams Shares What to Dive Into After Seven Days in June

BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED by Jayne Allen

It’s the first novel in a three-book-series focusing on a woman whose “perfect life” and has a wrench thrown into it with an unexpected infertility diagnosis. Un-put-downable.

GIRLHOOD by Melissa Febos

I’m obsessed with this intellectually airtight exploration of the pathway from girlhood to womanhood. It should be required reading, for all genders.

FLORIDA by Lauren Groff

This collection of wickedly dark, unsettling-in-a-David-Lynch-way short stories stayed with me long after I’d finished the book. Thrilling, surreal, and wild.

THE IDEA OF YOU by Robinne Lee

I can’t rave enough about this one – a chic, sexy, brilliantly escapist love story about a forty-year-old art gallerist in secret, lusty love with the lead singer of a boy band (ie, her tween daughter’s crush).

TRICK MIRROR by Jia Tolentido

Tolentido’s one of our finest cultural critics! Her witty, whip-smart essays tackle everything from reality TV to social media – and expose some of our most profound self-delusions in modern life.

Leave the Door Open – Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic
All I Need – Method Man ft. Mary J. Blige
He Said – Dvsn ft. Miguel
Favorite Mistake – Sheryl Crow
Kiss it Better – Rihanna
Can’t Get You Off My Mind – Lenny Kravitz
Damage – H.E.R.
Wicked Games – The Weeknd
From the Dining Table – Harry Styles
We Belong Together – Mariah Carey
No Angel – Beyonce
I Couldn’t Be More in Love – The 1975
Talk – Khalid
Up Late – Ari Lennox
Forever in My Life – Prince
With or Without You – U2

Listen to the Spotify Playlist inspired by Seven Days in June

Insecure
Better Things
Fleabag
Gilmore Girls
Euphoria
Normal People
Girlfriends
Big Little Lies
Ginny & Georgia
I May Destroy You

Romeo + Juliet
Love Jones
The Notebook
Love and Basketball
Crazy/Beautiful
Weekend
About Last Night (2014 version)
Mahogany
Eve’s Bayou
In the Mood for Love
The “Before” Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight