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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

See his picks fromlast month.

If the immigrants of the world were a nation, it would rival the U.S. in population.

Mostly Dead Things, by Kristen Arnett (Tin House, June 4)

But unlike colonialism, migration benefits almost everyone, except for xenophobes and the faux-populists who exploit them.

A modern immigrants life is never simple; neither are Dennis-Benns path-breaking stories.

Ackerman is an acclaimed novelist as well as a decorated veteran of the Iraq War.

This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, by Suketu Mehta (FSG, June 4)

Some novels about the professional urban class succeed through the exaggerating alchemy of satire.

All are in a position to help each other, if only they can get over their bullshit.

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Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright, June 4)

This Storm, by James Ellroy (Knopf, June 4)

Places and Names, by Elliot Ackerman (Penguin Press, June 11)

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong (Penguin, June 16)

How Could She, by Lauren Mechling (Viking, June 25)