Welcome to Page of the Day! For 100 Days, we are sharing 100 pages of 100 books – page by page, in order on our Instagram page. With each different day, a different book is featured. From advanced reader copies of upcoming releases to new paperback editions, you’ll be able to catch a glimpse – and read a short passage – from books perfect for summer reading. Here are those short passages from Days 10 through 16:

Day 10: Burning Down the Haus by Tim Mohr

“. . . she was being disenfranchised from casting a vote in the most crucial decisions in her own life and destiny, decisions about who she was and who she would or could be. She knew, she just knew, it was wrong that you weren’t permitted to read whatever you wanted, that you couldn’t openly express your opinions. Wrong that creativity, curiosity, and independent thinking were verboten.”

Day 11: Savage Country by Robert Olmstead

“It was strange to Michael how embittered a man could be over the loss of what he never possessed. Here was one of those mysterious people of very little conscience who would rule the world and yet he was fooled by the deception of unrealized gain.”

Day 12: The Floating World by C. Morgan Babst

“Out over the forest, something had come. He licked his finger, held it into the air. No wind. But something had come and knocked it all down. Must have been how the dog got loose. Didn’t like thunder, that dog. Went to the ground if you didn’t let her in the bathtub. He marched out into the forest. A few steps was all it took to put him out of breath . . . ”

Day 13: What Unites Us by Dan Rather

“We can revel in the opportunities of democracy, even though bigoted laws were passed in the chambers of Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. We must look clear-eyed at the problems of the past and present, but be encouraged that our electoral and legal systems provide a framework for improved justice in the future.”

Day 14: Woman at 1000 Degrees by Hallgrímur Helgason

“Dad followed his companions through the streets. Someone had mentioned a late-night party in Bergstadastræti, which turned out to be in a loft apartment that was obviously very small because the line stretched down the stairway and out onto the street. A snake of hat-clad boys loitered on the veranda on top of the steps, gulping down the night, as men are wont to do.”

Day 15: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose

“Earlier that morning Jane had strolled through the lobby of her hotel and out onto Greenwich Street, catching sight of the silhouette of a man standing high on the edge of a nearby building. She had squinted, puzzled, ready to be alarmed. But then with a thrill she recognized it as one of the Antony Gormley sculptures dotting New York’s skyline through spring.”

Day 16: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Nsukka started it all; Aunty Ifeoma’s little garden next to the verandah of her flat in Nsukka began to lift the silence. Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom, a different kind of freedom from the one the crowds waving green leaves chanted at Government Square after the coup. A freedom to be, to do.”