Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Between Two Moons
Aisha Abdel Gawad
A deeply moving family story about identity, faith, and belonging set in the Muslim immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Doubleday
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Everything’s Fine
Cecilia Rabess
On Jess’s first day at Goldman Sachs, she’s less than thrilled to learn she’ll be on the same team as Josh, her white, conservative sparring partner from college. Josh loves playing the devil’s advocate and is just…the worst. But when Jess finds herself the sole Black woman on the floor, overlooked and underestimated, it’s Josh who shows up for her in surprising—if imperfect—ways.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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My Murder
Katie Williams
Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She’s also the victim of a local serial killer. Recently brought back to life and returned to her grieving family by a government project, she is grateful for this second chance. But as the new Lou re-adapts to her old routines, and as she bonds with other female victims, she realizes that disturbing questions remain about what exactly preceded her death and how much she can really trust those around her.
Publication date: June 6
Publisher: Riverhead Books
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The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende
This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019.
Publication date: June 6
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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The Favor
Adele Griffin
From National Book Award finalist Adele Griffin, an insightful and warmhearted story of two very different women who make an unexpected connection when one decides to carry a baby for the other.
Publication date: June 13
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
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The Mythmakers
Katherine Lin
From an acclaimed senior editor at Vanity Fair comes an intoxicating debut novel about a young journalist who discovers a short story that’s inexplicably about her life—leading to an entanglement with the author’s widow, daughter, and former best friend.
Publication date: June 13
Publisher: Marysue Rucci Books
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And Then He Sang a Lullaby
Ani Kayode Somtochukqu
The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and resonant debut from a 23-year-old Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia.
Publication date: June 13
Publisher: Roxane Gay Books
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Holding Pattern
Jenny Xie
What happens when an ambitious and successful twenty-something is forced to start over? She moves in with mom. Brilliantly observant, tender, and warm, Holding Pattern is a hopeful novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we learn to hold each other.
Publication date: June 20
Publisher: Riverhead
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Old Enough
Haley Jakobson
A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown.
Publication date: June 20
Publisher: Dutton
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Little Monsters
Adrienne Brodeur
From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secrets—for fans of the New York Times bestsellers The Paper Palace and Ask Again, Yes.
Publication date: June 27
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
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The Rachel Incident
Caroline O’Donoghue
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.
Publication date: June 27
Publisher: Knopf Publishing
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The Wife App
Carolyn Makler
Three best friends decide they’re finally done with their ex-husbands taking their work as wives and moms for granted. They’re ready to monetize the mental load, stick it to their exes, and have a wild ride in the process.
Publication date: June 27
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Historical Fiction
Crow Mary
Kathleen Grissom
Kathleen Grissom returns with a sweeping saga inspired by the true story of Crow Mary—an indigenous woman torn between two worlds in 19th-century North America.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Atria Books
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The Paris Daughter
Kristen Harmel
From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two mothers who must make unthinkable choices in the face of the Nazi occupation.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Gallery Books
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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Lisa See
The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s classic Snowflower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Scribner
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Loot
Tania James
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Knopf
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The Brightest Star
Gail Tsukiyama
A magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous, groundbreaking actress Anna May Wong—the first and only Asian American woman to gain movie stardom in the early days of Hollywood.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: HarperVia
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Hotel Laguna
Nicola Harrison
Hazel Francis, a young woman from Wichita, Kansas, longing for a change in her current situation, takes a chance and sets out for California to take her place among other women working in an airplane factory during WWII. Once the men return home, and their jobs are returned to them, Hazel again sets out to find her way, with only herself to count on.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
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Lucky Red
Claudia Cravens
A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: The Dial Press
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Banyan Moon
Thao Thai
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family’s inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Mariner Books
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The Beach at Summerly
Beatriz Williams
New York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: William Morrow
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The First Ladies
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Personal Librarian.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Berkley
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Romance
All the Right Notes
Dominic Lim
In this hilarious and joyous LGBTQ+ rom com, sparks fly when a piano genius and a Hollywood heartthrob are thrown together for a charity performance of solos, heartfelt duets, and a big, showstopping finale.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Forever
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Charm City Rocks
Matthew Norman
When a single dad meets the former rock-star crush of his youth, everything they thought they knew about happiness and love is thrown into chaos in this hopeful, heartwarming romantic comedy.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Dell
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Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style
Paul Rudnick
From the acclaimed writer Paul Rudnick, a riotously funny, perceptive, and life-affirming novel following the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of American’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Atria Books
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My Magnolia Summer
Victoria Benton Frank
Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In this gripping tale of self-discovery, Victoria Benton Frank introduces us to Maggie, struggling to find her place in the world when she receives a phone call bringing her back to her hometown of Sullivan’s Island.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: William Morrow
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Same Time Next Summer
Annabel Monaghan
Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect doctor fiancé, Jack (his strict routines are a good thing, really), a great job in Manhattan (unless they fire her), and is about to tour a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. Everything should go to plan, yet the minute she arrives, Sam senses something is off. Wyatt is here. Her Wyatt. But there’s no reason for a thirty-year-old engaged woman to feel panicked around the guy who broke her heart when she was seventeen. Right?
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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We Could Be So Good
Cat Sebastian
Set in the 1950s New York City newspaper wars, ace reporter Nick Russo has developed a dangerous crush: Andy Fleming, the dissolute son of the paper’s tycoon owner. Gay relationships being famously hard to pull off in the 1950s, Nick and Andy have some tough decisions ahead.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Avon
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Much Ado About Nada
Uzma Jalaluddin
A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion… Nothing in Nada’s life has turned out the way it was supposed to, and she feels like a failure. Nada’s best friend Haleema is determined to pry her from her shell…and what better place than at the giant annual Muslim conference, where Nada can finally meet Haleema’s fiancé, Zayn. And did Haleema mention Zayn’s brother Baz will be there?
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Berkley
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Talking at Night
Claire Daverley
Secret walks and late-night phone calls. An undeniable chemistry. A tragedy that haunts them both. A powerful yet tender love story between two people who can’t help but be pulled back to each other.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
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The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Berkley
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Will They or Won’t They
Ava Wilder
Lilah Hunter and Shane McCarthy, stars of the paranormal drama show Intangible, broke the hearts of shippers everywhere when Lilah left the show in Season 5. Now the costars have reunited for the series finale. Can they overcome their mutual distaste to accommodate their mutual horniness? The truth is out there.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Dell
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Thrillers & Mysteries
The Whispers
Ashley Audrain
From the author of The Push, a page-turner about four suburban families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens–and what is lost when good people make unconscionable choices.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
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All the Sinners Bleed
S.A. Cosby
Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, quiet Charon has had only two murders. But after years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface. Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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Girls and Their Horses
Eliza Jane Brazier
Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cutthroat mothers, and a suspicious death at a horse show.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Berkley
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The Drowning Woman
Robyn Harding
From the bestselling author of The Party comes a dark and wild ride of redemption, betrayal, and friendship following a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Grand Central
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The Long Way Back
Nicole Baart
When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller—from the author of Everything We Didn’t Say.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Atria Books
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Speak of the Devil
Rose Wilding
Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Minotaur Books
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The Puzzle Master
Danielle Trussoni
Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this suspenseful thriller.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Random House
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The Quiet Tenant
Clémence Michallon
A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his 13-year-old daughter, his girlfriend — and the one victim he has spared.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Knopf Publishing
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Have You Seen Her
Amy Suiter Clarke
A thrilling and timely novel about three women with dark secrets whose lives intersect in the picturesque and perilous Yosemite National Park.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Atria Books
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Lay Your Body Down
Amy Suiter Clarke
A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds—and may be covering up a murder.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: William Morrow
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Horror & Gothic Fiction
Everything the Darkness Eats
Eric LaRocca
An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: CLASH Books
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Maeve Fly
C.J. Leede
A provocative and unforgettable debut that is both a blood-soaked love letter to Los Angeles and a gleeful send-up to iconic horror villains, Maeve Fly will thrill fans of My Heart is a Chainsaw and Caroline Kepnes’ You series.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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Maddalena and the Dark
Julia Fine
For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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Night’s Edge
Liz Kerin
Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to the ones we love most.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird: Stories
Agustina Bazterrica
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Scribner
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Dead Eleven
Jimmy Juliano
On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son’s death–but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules…
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Dutton
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Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
The Endless Vessel
Charles Soule
This intricate novel follows the strange fate of Lily Barnes, a Hong Kong scientist with an unstable relationship to the time-space continuum. Author Charles Soule channels history and science for a parable about hope and love. Nothing wrong with that.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Mortal Follies
Alexis Hall
A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic fantasy romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Del Rey
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Translation State
Ann Leckie
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Orbit
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The First Bright Thing
J.R. Dawson
Circus leader Ringmaster and her wife, trapeze artist Odette, lead a time-traveling troupe through the American Midwest in the dark days following World War I. The real trouble: They’re being chased by a second circus, with tents black as midnight.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Tor Books
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The Surviving Sky
Kritika H. Rao
This Hindu philosophy-inspired debut science fantasy follows a husband and wife racing to save their living city—and their troubled marriage—high above a jungle world besieged by cataclysmic storms.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Titan Books
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On Earth It is on Television
Emily Jane
In Emily Jane’s rollicking debut, when spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Hyperion Avenue
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The Road to Roswell
Connie Willis
A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe—some of which may actually be true—from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Del Rey
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Young Adult
The Chaperone
M. Hendrix
Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can’t go out by herself. She can’t even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels lost. Especially when she’s assigned a new chaperone just days later.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Sourcebooks
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Darkhearts
James L. Sutter
Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Red, White, & Royal Blue, Darkhearts is a hilarious, heartfelt, enemies-to-lovers romance about love, celebrity, and what happens when the two collide.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Wednesday Books
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Ride or Die
Gail-Agnes Musikavanhu
Best friends Loli Crawford and Ryan Pope have earned their nickname, the “Bonnie and Clyde of Woolridge High.” But everyone knows that the mischief starts with Loli; when it comes to chasing thrills, drama, and adventure, no one is on her level. At least until Loli throws the wildest party Woolridge High has ever seen and meets X, a strange, unidentified boy in the coat closet, who challenges her to a game she can’t refuse—one that promises to put her love of danger to the ultimate test.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Soho Teens
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Going Bicoastal
Dahlia Adler
A queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she’s always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming).
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Wednesday Books
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Kismat Connection
Ananya Devarajan
In this charming YA debut, a girl who’s determined to prove her star chart wrong ropes her longtime best friend into an experimental relationship—not knowing that he has been in love with her for years.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Inkyard Press
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Where Echoes Die
Courtney Gould
Two sisters travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother’s death, but uncover more than they bargained for in this supernatural thriller from the author of The Dead and the Dark.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Wednesday Books
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You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight
Kalynn Bayron
It’s the kind of title that makes you think. Kalynn Bayron’s twisty thriller plays out at the theme park called Camp Mirror Lake, where performers re-create scenes from classic horror films. When someone starts bending the rules—slashing them, really—Charity Curtis and her girlfriend, Bezi, have to fight back to survive.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
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Sing Me to Sleep
Gabi Burton
In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, a siren must choose between protecting her family and following her heart in a prejudiced kingdom where her existence is illegal.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
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The Shadow Sister
Lily Meade
Sutton going missing is the worst thing to happen to Casey, to their family. She’s trying to help find her sister, but Casey is furious. And she can’t tell anyone about their argument before Sutton disappeared. Everyone paints a picture of Sutton’s perfection. But Sutton manipulated everyone around her. When Sutton reappears, Casey knows she should be relieved. Except Sutton isn’t the same.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
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What Happens After Midnight
K.L. Walther
From the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules comes a new coming-of-age romance about senior year, first love, and finding yourself.
Publication Date: June 27
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
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Nonfiction
Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
Darrell Hartman
A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Viking
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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
Samantha Leach
Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were dead. In The Elissas, Bustle editor Samantha Leach endeavors to understand why they ultimately met a shared, tragic fate that she was spared, in turn, offering a chilling account of the secret lives of young suburban women.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Legacy Lit
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Pageboy
Elliot Page
Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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The Talk
Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are. Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
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Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Joseph McGill Jr. and Herb Frazier
In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America.
Publication Date: June 6
Publisher: Hachette Books
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A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
Rachel Louise Martin
An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history—about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board—will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions
Mattie Kahn
The untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls.
Publication Date: June 13
Publisher: Viking
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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
Barbara Butcher
A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. This is the fascinating and stunning real-life story of a woman who, in dealing with death every day, learned surprising lessons about life—and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself.
Publication Date: June 20
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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