Pittsburgh 100 Book Club

Summer ends next month, but there’s still time to lounge in the sun with a good book. Check out these reads from Carnegie Library’s Books for the Beach list:

Caitlyn Hunter, the inaugural Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University and a PhD candidate in English Literature at Duquesne University is launching her debut book, “Power in the Tongue,” on June 22 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Bloomfield’s White Whale Bookstore. 

My best hair day ever was in seventh grade when the yearbook photographer took class officer photos.

Read one man’s journey from bold to bald, and back again. “Headscape” meanders through two marriages, several states and various jobs, ending with revealing his new youthful look.

We can’t recommend enough “She Gets the Girl,” a new LGBTQ+ young adult romantic comedy set at the University of Pittsburgh.

There are lots of Pittsburgh-based movies, but how often do you read stories set in our town? Below are three books that take place here in the Steel City.