Hit the Beach — or the Couch — With the 52 Best Summer Reads of 2021

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin is a darkly funny novel about a well-meaning receptionist's good deed spiraling out of control. Gilda is an atheist lesbian with an intense love of animals who is just looking for a free therapy session when she visits the local Catholic church. But when a misunderstanding results in her becoming the church's new receptionist, she becomes obsessed with the death of her predecessor.