This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. The New York Times had me doing a double take last week with the release of their Best Books of the Year So Far list. I mean, on the one hand, I get releasing their midway list a month or so before everyone else. But still, it’s not making my sense of time any less fraught. As far as the list goes, though, there are some givens—like Tayari Jones’ Kin , Namwali Serpell’s On Morrison , and Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling . I’ve been hearing great things about Serpell’s and Keefe’s books, while Jones’ was one of my most anticipated of the year. Speaking of the most anticipated, the books to look forward to this month include a memoir by activist and pioneering scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, haunting Nigerian-set literary fiction, an “anti-western,” and more.…