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Summer Books 2015: Take a look

Harper Lee waited 55 years after publishing her first and only book, "To Kill a Mockingbird," before announcing a second novel. "Go Set a Watchman" arrives in July.

Harper Lee waited 55 years after publishing her first and only book, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” before announcing a second novel. “Go Set a Watchman” arrives in July.

  (Rob Carr / AP)

By Carolyn Kellogg

Do you have enough time to read 136 books this summer? That’s how many we have selected from the new crop of thrillers and memoirs, literary fiction and kids books, audiobooks and more. Here’s a teeny look at that enormous stack. Don’t miss the whole thing.

Stephen King

He seems so nice! Stephen King is back with another scary book this summer: “Finders Keepers,” about a stolen manuscript, a dead novelist and a returning killer.

  (Francois Mori / AP)

Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg

A new collection of correspondence between poets Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg is coming this summer. Ferlinghetti, who founded City Lights books when he published Ginsberg’s “Howl,” is, at 96, one of the last survivors of the Beat Generation writers.

  (JON CHASE / AP)

Bengie Molina

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim star Bengie Molina rounds the bases after a solo homerun in 2005. His new book is the memoir “Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty.”

  (Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times)

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Mark Haskell Smith and J. Ryan Stradal

Two L.A. writers with books this summer: Mark Haskell Smith, left, whose “Naked at Lunch” explores nudist culture; and J. Ryan Stradal, right, whose “Kitchens of the Great Midwest” is his debut novel, about a young woman who becomes an iconic chef.

  (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times; Anna Pasquarella)

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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