10 best books of July 2014, according to Amazon's editors

Looking for a great summer read? Check out these selections by Amazon staff.

6. 'The Fracking King,' by James Browning

James Browning's debut novel is set at the Hale Boarding School for Boys, where students are quick to point fingers at fracking when their tap water catches on fire. A student named Win, studying at the school grace of an endowment by a fracking company, might get the opportunity to fix the tap water problem via a talent for Scrabble. "It's very inventive," Nelson says of the book. "It's a coming-of-age in some ways."

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