Along with the summer edition of What We Are Reading, we are sharing our staff picks of local, independent bookstores. We look forward to walking the aisles and browsing for hours in these favorite haunts someday soon, but we can support them now. If any of the titles on our summer reading catch your interest, look to your favorite local book seller to pick up a copy.
The Book Rack, Arlington MA
Frugal Bookstore, Roxbury MA
Papercuts, Boston, MA
Porter Square Books, Somerville MA
Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
Trident Booksellers, Boston, MA
Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge MA
Whitelam Books, Reading MA
Books on the Square, Providence RI
Here’s what our start of summer reading list looks like. It’s a snapshot of books, articles and features that have caught our interest – from digging in to understand our role and the work to be done towards creating a more equitable society to an unexpected, entertaining reinterpretation of the architecture of cities – we’re taking it all in.
Midnight in Chernobyl, Adam Higginbotham
The Great Land Robbery
White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
The 1619 Project
The White Goddess, Robert Graves
A Burglars Guide to the City, Geoff-Manaugh
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
We are honored to share PAYETTE has received two 2026 Green Good Design Awards from The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies—Land’s Sake Farm and The Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard.
“Green GOOD DESIGN identifies and emphasizes the world’s most important examples of sustainable design and works to develop a public awareness program that informs the general public about which global companies are doing the best job in ecological and sustainable design for our world. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning projects, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design projects from over 30 nations were honored with the 2026 Green GOOD DESIGN Award.”
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