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Readers' Most Anticipated Books for June
At the beginning of each calendar month, Å·±¦ÓéÀÖâ€� crack editorial squad assembles a list of the hottest and most popular new books hitting shelves, actual and virtual. The list is generated by evaluating readersâ€� early reviews and tracking which titles are being added toÌýWant to ReadÌýshelves by Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ regulars.
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Each month’s curated preview features new books from across the genre spectrum: contemporary fiction, historical fiction, mysteries and thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy, romance, horror, young adult, nonfiction, and more. Think of it as a literary smorgasbord. Check out whatever looks delicious.
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New in June: V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, delivers a sapphic vampire riff on immortality dilemmas with the epic Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Southern noir specialist S.A. Cosby explores the rural crematorium business with King of Ashes. And author Maggie Stiefvater mixes World War II espionage with Appalachian mountain magic in The Listeners.
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Also on tap this month: dark romance, whitewater rapids, and a highly anticipated new novel from acclaimed young author Leila Mottley.
Add the books that catch your eye to yourÌýWant to ReadÌýshelf.
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Each month’s curated preview features new books from across the genre spectrum: contemporary fiction, historical fiction, mysteries and thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy, romance, horror, young adult, nonfiction, and more. Think of it as a literary smorgasbord. Check out whatever looks delicious.
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New in June: V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, delivers a sapphic vampire riff on immortality dilemmas with the epic Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Southern noir specialist S.A. Cosby explores the rural crematorium business with King of Ashes. And author Maggie Stiefvater mixes World War II espionage with Appalachian mountain magic in The Listeners.
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Also on tap this month: dark romance, whitewater rapids, and a highly anticipated new novel from acclaimed young author Leila Mottley.
Add the books that catch your eye to yourÌýWant to ReadÌýshelf.
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Author Taylor Jenkins Reid specializes in complex characters doing interesting things in iconic settings—think The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo or . Her new book, set in the wide-open skies of NASA’s 1980s space shuttle program, follows the epic adventures of female astronaut Joan Goodwin. Romance! Adventure! Intrigue! Top gun pilots! Things get intense at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, and Å·±¦ÓéÀÖâ€� early readers are loving it.
Read our interview with Jenkins Reid here.Ìý
Read our interview with Jenkins Reid here.Ìý
British thriller specialistÌýLisa JewellÌý(None of This Is True) has been cheerfully blowingÌýreaders’Ìýminds with her plot twists for more than 25 years now. Her latest features three women in neighboring towns, and two men who are not who they say they are. In fact, the two men may not be two men at all. Throw in one mysterious death and you’ve got a recipe for state-of-the-art psychological suspense.
If you liked The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, you’ll want to check out the new one from veteran author Victoria E. Schwab, which explores the darker and sexier aspects of virtual immortality. Starting out in 16th-century Spain, the new novel delivers a multigenerational sapphic vampire story that passes through Victorian-era London and present-day Boston. Bonus trivia: The author herself has dropped a note for readers in the book page’s Community Reviews section. Ìý
The latest thriller from genre ace Riley Sager has a pretty delicious setup: Set in 1954, the new book follows an elaborate revenge scheme aboard a luxury passenger train headed to Chicago. But when a separate and (possibly) unrelated murder mystery breaks out, plans collapse, allegiances shift, and things get really interesting. You can safely anticipate Sager’s usual array of turns, twists, and deadly surprises. Train trips are always so fun.
Advance word on King of Ashes, the new one from Southern noir king S.A. Cosby (All the Sinners Bleed), suggests an epic family drama in the spirit of The Godfather. But instead of the mean streets of New York City, we’re invited to the dusty back roads of rural Virginia. The Carruthers family runs the town’s crematorium, but when clan patriarch is targeted by gangsters, events take a turn. Look for prodigal sons, sibling dynamics, and plenty of family, you know, business.
Read our interview with Cosby here.Ìý
Read our interview with Cosby here.Ìý
This one looks like so much fun: In the early days of World War II, local girl June Hudson is manager of a West Virginia luxury resort currently hosting a curious clientele. It seems the State Department needs a place to stash captured Axis diplomats from the war. What June knows, and the Nazis don’t, is that there’s magic in them there hills. AuthorÌýMaggie Stiefvater, previous known for her YA fantasy books, blends romance, class conflict, and Appalachian mythology into a new kind of spy story.
With her 2022 novel The Measure, author Nikki Erlick delivered a unique kind of mortality fable by way of thoughtful, high-concept speculative fiction. Erlick rides a similar vibe with her second novel, which concerns a California research facility that offers a miraculous cure for grief and loss. When four strangers seek relief at the remote destination, they discover the downside of high-tech shortcuts. Expect some twists.
This much anticipated second novel from author Leila Mottley profiles four teenage mothers in small-town Florida, cast out but sticking together through the most difficult year of their young lives. Mottley has earned critical praise and popular admiration for bringing new perspectives on insight and compassion to the literary fiction aisle. Her 2022 debut novel, Nightcrawling, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, making her the youngest author ever nominated for the prestigious award.
The new thriller from Julie Clark (The Last Flight) follows the fate of Olivia Dumont, an out-of-work author who reluctantly agrees to help write the memoirs of a very famous, very notorious horror novelist. The twist is that the horror writer in question is her own father, a fact that Olivia has been trying to hide her whole adult life. Also: Dad’s memory is fading fast and, well, he kinda-sorta-maybe killed all of his siblings this one time.
Louisa was just 10 years old when her father disappeared into the ocean. Only shards of memory remain: a nighttime walk on the beach, waking up in the sand, and the dizzying beam of a flashlight. Susan Choi (Trust Exercise) deploys multiple family POVs to tell a complex family story that flickers backward and forward in time and place—Japan, Korea, America—but keeps returning to that one night. What happened? Why?
Occupied France, 1942: Colette and her mother Annabel are crafty jewel thieves who ply their trade to help fund the French Resistance. But one night it all goes wrong. Flash forward 70 years and Colette, almost 90, has distributed millions to worthy organizations over the decades. But she must confront her past when a priceless bracelet shows up in a Boston museum exhibit. Historical fiction specialist Kristin Harmel (The Book of Lost Names) has the details. Ìý
You know that thing where you get a melody stuck in your head? L.A. songwriter Joni Lark, recently returned to her North Carolina hometown, has run into a variation on that. Her writer’s block has magically disappeared as a sexy voice starts humming melodies in her mind. As a bonus, the voice appears to belong to a handsome local musician. If you like your contemporary romance with a dash of magical realism, you might dig this latest love story from Ashley Poston (The Seven Year Slip).
A dark romance of seduction and obsession, Caught Up is the latest from Navessa Allen, author of the BookTok sensation Lights Out. The setup: Former shy girl Lauren Marchetti is now an online entrepreneur at an OnlyFans-style operation. When an old high school admirer enters the picture, this second-chance romance branches out to include voyeurism, play clubs, and mafia connections. Heads up that this is very dark romance.
This one is just flat-out fascinating: Billed as a nonfiction thriller, Murderland is essentially the publication of a years-long investigation from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Caroline Fraser (Prairie Fires). The book examines the history of Pacific Northwest serial killers in connection with the region’s legacy of severe environmental degradation. Did poisonous lead and arsenic smelters produce a generation of twisted minds in the 1970s and �80s?
On the other side of that coin, The River’s Daughter is a heartfelt memoir from whitewater rafting guide Bridget Crocker, which explores the notion that nature, in all its unchecked wildness, can nurture. Crocker’s book details her own difficult childhood and her gradual healing in the waters of the world’s great rivers, from Wyoming’s Snake River to Africa’s Zambezi River. Her vivid adventure writing should appeal to fans ofÌýCheryl Strayed’sÌýWildÌýorÌýTara Westover’sÌýEducated.
