{"id":13814,"date":"2025-06-06T13:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:41:51","slug":"esquire-best-books-of-summer-next-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/06\/esquire-best-books-of-summer-next-to-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"ESQUIRE Best Books of Summer &#8211; NEXT TO HEAVEN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/books\/a64959275\/best-books-summer-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from ESQUIRE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Best Books of Summer 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommendations from the people who knows books best: independent-bookstore owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/author\/8283\/ryan-dagostino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ryan D&#8217;Agostino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/vader-prod.s3.amazonaws.com\/1749057004-71jYIDuZdDL.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" alt=\"Next To Heaven, by James Frey\" title=\"Next To Heaven, by James Frey\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next To Heaven, by James Frey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 will be the novel on every beach towel this summer, all summer, everywhere. Because sex and murder, yes. And because Frey could always tell a great story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now 17% Off<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DKPHX5B7?linkCode=ogi&amp;tag=esquire_auto-append-20&amp;ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C10054.a.64959275%5Bsrc%7Cwww.google.com%5Bch%7C%5Blt%7Csale%5Bpid%7Cb71341af-ab9d-49af-b5e3-b3a4e475b1d0%5Baxid%7C1abc3475-b509-41ae-9901-00af84f38fe8%5Bofsxid%7Cjam_ab_direct_to_checkout%5Bofsvid%7Cstandard_blocker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><s>$29<\/s> $24 AT AMAZON<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/shareasale.com\/r.cfm?b=999&amp;u=3455358&amp;m=97137&amp;urllink=bookshop.org%2Fp%2Fbooks%2Fnext-to-heaven-a-novel-james-frey%2FnpYLUxmy7Bvh3XDK&amp;afftrack=esq|xid:fr1749328107588dbf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$27 AT BOOKSHOP<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/goto.walmart.com\/c\/3006986\/565706\/9383?veh=aff&amp;sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fip%2F13572454263%3Fselected%3Dtrue&amp;subId1=esq&amp;subId3=xid:fr1749328107588tti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$29 AT WALMART<\/a><br>Credit: Authors Equity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/books\/a64959275\/best-books-summer-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to read full list at ESQUIRE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from ESQUIRE The Best Books of Summer 2025 Recommendations from the people who knows books best: independent-bookstore owners. By\u00a0Ryan D&#8217;Agostino Next To Heaven, by James Frey \u2026 will be the novel on every beach towel this summer, all summer, everywhere. Because sex and murder, yes. And because Frey could always tell a great story. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}