Contemporary & Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Romance | Thrillers & Mysteries | Horror & Gothic Fiction | Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism | Young Adult | Nonfiction
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugoand Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Publication date: June 3
The Catch
Yrsa Daley-Ward
The inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, The Catch is a darkly whimsical tale of women daring to live and create with impunity. In her riveting first foray into fiction, Yrsa Daley-Ward conjures a kaleidoscopic multiverse of daughterhood and mother-want, exploring the sacrifices that women must make for self-actualization. The result is a marvel of a debut novel that boldly asks, “How can it ever, ever be a crime to choose yourself?
Publication date: June 3
Endling
Maria Reva
Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and the impact of war.
Publication date: June 3
Flashlight
Susan Choi
A novel tracing a father’s disappearance across time, nations, and memory, from the author of Trust Exercise.
Publication date: June 3
Parallel Lines
Edward St. Aubyn
From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style
Publication date: June 3
Meet Me at the Crossroads
Megan Giddings
From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.
Publication date: June 3
The Slip
Lucas Schaefer
For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.
Publication date: June 3
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion
Vaishnavi Patel
From the New York Times bestselling author of Kaikeyi comes an epic and daring novel that imagines an alternate version of 1960s India that was never liberated from the British, and a young woman’s struggle to change the tides of history.
Publication date: June 3
There Are Reasons for This
Nini Berndt
A dystopian novel imagines a world of environmental collapse and the feel-good pharmaceuticals people use for coping. There Are Reasons for This is a modern love song about the fallibility of love―in all its iterations―about the denial and tethering of desire, about the family we are given and the one we find for ourselves, and to what comes next, whatever that may be.
Publication date: June 3
The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen
Shokoofeh Azar
From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades. The moving story of one family’s efforts to preserve the richness of Iranian culture in the face of Islamic hegemony following the 1979 revolution.
Publication date: June 10
Great Black Hope
Rob Franklin
A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.
Publication date: June 10
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.
Publication date: June 10
Palm Meridian
Grace Flahive
A rollicking, big-hearted story of long-lost love, friendship, and a life well-lived, set at a Florida retirement resort for queer women, on the last day of resident Hannah Cardin’s life—perfect for readers of Less and The Wedding People.
Publication date: June 10
So Far Gone
Jess Walter
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.
Publication date: June 10
Bug Hollow
Michelle Hueven
A decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis.
Publication date: June 17
Fulfillment
Lee Cole
From the acclaimed author of Groundskeeping comes a searing family drama set in Kentucky where the homecoming of two half-brothers—successful Joel with his restless wife Alice, and struggling Emmett—ignites a clash of ambitions and desires, exposing raw truths about class, privilege, and happiness in the American South.
Publication date: June 17
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
Irene Solà
A woman who makes a deal with the devil for a perfect husband. An audacious and entrancing novel in which the lines between the dead and the living, past and present, story and history are blurred. In it, Irene Solà draws on oral tradition as well as art, literature, and fairy tales to tell a completely new kind of story.
Publication date: June 17
The Möbius Book
Catherine Lacey
A genre-bending story about breaking―both of the heart and form itself―from the author of Biography of X.
Publication date: June 17
The Sisters
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
An indelible portrait of three Tunisian-Swedish sisters and the possible curse that follows them. Narrated in six parts, each spanning a period ranging from a year to a day to a single minute, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Sisters is a big, vivid family saga of the highest order―an addictively entertaining tour de force.
Publication date: June 17
When the Music Hits
Amber Oliver
In this soulful debut novel set in the hypnotic music scene of New York City, a young Black woman lands her dream job at a major label—only to discover just how treacherous a place made to birth stars can be. A riveting, poignant, and endlessly entertaining take on privilege and power, When the Music Hits is a moving anthem for making space where there was none before and introduces Amber Oliver as a blazing new talent to watch.
Publication date: June 17
The Accidental Favorite
Fran Littlewood
From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?
Publication date: June 24
The Compound
Aisling Rawle
Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards. Addictive and prescient, The Compound is an explosive debut from a major new voice in fiction and will linger in your mind long after the game ends.
Publication date: June 24
The Girls Who Grew Big
Leila Mottley
From the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle.
Publication date: June 24
Historical Fiction
A Language of Limbs
Dylin Hardcastle
A breathtaking, sliding-doors, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.
Publication date: June 3
The Listeners
Maggie Stiefvater
#1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater dazzles in this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril.
Publication date: June 3
What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown
A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this propulsive new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.
Publication date: June 3
How to Dodge a Cannonball
Dennard Dayle
A razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not just for territory, but for the soul of America.
Publication date: June 17
The Scrapbook
Heather Clark
From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death
Publication date: June 17
These Heathens
Mia McKenzi
Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if your small town’s midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, the answer is Atlanta, where her favorite teacher, Mrs. Lucas, calls upon her brash, wealthy childhood best friend, Sylvia, for help. These Heathens is a funny, poignant story about Black women’s obligations and ambitions, what we owe to ourselves, and the transformative power of leaving your bubble, even for just one chaotic weekend.
Publication date: June 17
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Kristin Harmel
Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
Publication date: June 17
Romance
Battle of the Bookstore
Ali Brady
Rivalry and romance spark when two bookstore managers who are opposites in every way find themselves competing for the same promotion.
Publication Date: June 3
The Summer We Ran
Audrey Ingram
Does your past define your destiny? Told through multiple perspectives, rich with emotion and immersive dual timelines, The Summer We Ran weaves together a story of lost love, devastating secrets, shocking sabotage, and the painstaking decision two people must make in order to fulfill the futures they each desire.
Publication Date: June 3
The Next Chapter
Camille Kellogg
Their relationship is a publicity stunt. Only one of them knows it. When a famous former child actress meets a West Village bookseller, sparks fly and complications ensue in this queer homage to Notting Hill by the author of Just as You Are.
Publication Date: June 10
Roommating
Meredith Schorr
Sizzling chemistry and tender friendship develops between two accidental roommates in this hilarious rom-com from the author of As Seen on TV.
Publication Date: June 10
Sounds Like Love
Ashley Poston
A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.
Publication Date: June 17
Eliza and the Duke
Harper St. George
All hopeless romantic American heiress Eliza Dove asked for was one night of adventure. One glorious evening of freedom to explore the dark corners of London with a mysterious stranger before a lifetime trapped in a quiet, respectable marriage of convenience. Except now she wants more. Now she wants him.
Publication Date: June 24
Fan Favorite
Adrienne Gunn
When decidedly unhappy Edie Pepper DMs her way onto a reality tv dating show, she’s going to realize love isn’t so easily won in this perfect modern romcom.
Publication Date: June 24
Finders Keepers
Sarah Adler
Two estranged best friends find that their long-abandoned treasure hunt might be the key to a fresh start—for both their futures and their feelings, from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Adler.
Publication Date: June 24
Total Dreamboat
Katelyn Doyle
From the author of Just Some Stupid Love Story, an irresistible rom-com about what happens when a cruise ship romance goes… overboard.
Publication Date: June 24
Thrillers & Mysteries
The Ghostwriter
Julie Clark
The Taylor family shatters in a single night when two teenage siblings are found dead in their own home. The only surviving sibling, Vincent, never shakes the whispers and accusations that he was the one who killed them. Decades later, the legend only grows as his career as a horror writer skyrockets. After fifty years of silence, Vincent Taylor is finally ready to talk about what really happened that night in 1975.
Publication date: June 3
Park Avenue
Renée Ahdieh
When a young lawyer takes on a case involving a wealthy Korean American family, she enters a world of deception, seduction, and betrayal. For fans of Crazy Rich Asians, Schitt’s Creek, and White Lotus.
Publication date: June 3
So Happy Together
Olivia Worley
Jane and Colin are soulmates. He just doesn’t know it yet. Unrelentingly twisty and utterly compelling, So Happy Together is an unputdownable, shattering read―a riveting blend of You, Riley Sager, and Promising Young Woman.
Publication date: June 3
We Don’t Talk About Carol
Kristen L. Berry
A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret—and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home—in this gripping debut novel.
Publication date: June 3
Death at the White Hart
Chris Chibnall
From the internationally award-winning creator of Broadchurch comes a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village.
Publication date: June 10
King of Ashes
S.A. Cosby
Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.
Publication date: June 10
Welcome to Murder Week
Karen Dukess
In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.
Publication date: June 10
Ecstasy
Ivy Pochoda
Ivy Pochoda, winner of the LA Times Book Prize, puts a contemporary horror twist on Euripides’s The Bacchae as recently widowed Lena travels to Athens with her adult son—and finds herself seduced by a group of mysterious, hard-partying women.
Publication date: June 17
Fox
Joyce Carol Oates
A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers.
Publication date: June 17
Murder Takes a Vacation
Laura Lippman
Highly acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman returns with an irresistible mystery featuring Muriel Blossom, a former private investigator and middle-aged widow whose vacation on a Parisian river cruise turns into a deadly international mystery…that only she can solve.
Publication date: June 17
Murder on Sex Island
Jo Firestone
A sexy reality show. A missing contestant. A one-of-a-kind detective. When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers hire detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don’t know is that the enigmatic Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex–social worker from Staten Island attempting to lead a double life as a private eye.
Publication date: June 24
Fantasy, Science Fiction, & Magical Realism
A Song of Legends Lost
M.H. Ayinde
An unforgettable tale of revenge and rebellion unfolds when a reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war in this relentlessly gripping epic fantasy debut.
Publication date: June 3
Of Monsters and Mainframes
Barbara Truelove
Spaceships aren’t programmed to seek revenge—but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society’s monsters—and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.
Publication date: June 3
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic—of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life—holds the power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.
Publication date: June 3
Shroud
Adrian Tchaikovsky
On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.
Publication date: June 3
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
Publication date: June 10
A Dance of Lies
Brittney Arena
A debut fantasy romance filled with hope after heartbreak, secrets, and betrayal, as a dancer-turned-spy must decide how far she will go to secure her freedom.
Publication date: June 10
The Palace of Illusions
Rowenna Miller
The Palace of Illusions brings readers to a Paris breathless with excitement at the dawn of the twentieth century, where for a select few there is a second, secret Paris where the magic of the City of Light is very real in this enchanting and atmospheric fantasy from the author of The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill.
Publication date: June 10
Six Wild Crowns
Holly Race
From a major new voice in epic fantasy, Six Wild Crowns is a breathtaking epic fantasy of dragons, courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII as you’ve never seen them before.
Publication date: June 10
A Far Better Thing
H.G. Parry
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.
Publication date: June 17
Seventhblade
Tonia Laird
For readers of N.K. Jemisin and Rebecca Roanhorse, a fast-paced, anti-colonial action-adventure fantasy that explores twisted power dynamics and the effects of settler colonialism.
Publication date: June 17
A Magic Deep & Drowning
Hester Fox
Set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is perfect for fans of Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist and Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar.
Publication date: June 24
Short Stories & Essays
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
Alice Bolin
From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls, a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.
Publication date: June 3
Room on the Sea: Three Novellas
André Aciman
Three hypnotic novellas about obsessional love, missed connections, and enduring regret by the bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name.
Publication date: June 24
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.
Publication date: June 24
Memoirs & Biographies
A Different Kind of Power
Jacinda Ardern
From the former prime minister of New Zealand, then the world’s youngest female head of government and just the second to give birth in office, comes a deeply personal memoir chronicling her extraordinary rise and offering inspiration to a new generation of leaders.
Publication date: June 3
The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
Melissa Febos
From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge.
Publication date: June 3
Buckley: The Life & the Revolution That Changed America
Sam Tanenhaus
In 1951, with the publication of God and Man at Yale, a scathing attack on his alma mater, twenty-five-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., seized the public stage—and commanded it for the next half century as he led a new generation of conservative activists and ideologues to the peak of political power and cultural influence. At a crucial moment in American history, Buckley offers a gripping and powerfully relevant story about the birth of modern politics and those who shaped it.
Publication date: June 3
How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir
Molly Jong-Fast
From the political writer and podcaster, a ferociously honest and disarmingly funny memoir about her elusive mother’s encroaching dementia and a reckoning with her complicated childhood.
Publication date: June 3
My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy
Edward Hirsch
From the award-winning poet, dark comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet’s coming-of-age.
Publication date: June 3
The River’s Daughter
Bridget Crocker
A vivid and propulsive memoir about finding courage and meaning in a life outdoors, by a world-class whitewater rafting guide.
Publication date: June 3
The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
Helen Whybrow
In prose both vivid and lean, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land. Evocative, affectionate, and illuminating, The Salt Stones sings of a way of life that is at once ancient and entirely contemporary, inspiring us all to seek greater intimacy and a sense of belonging wherever our home place may be.
Publication date: June 3
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Dana A. Williams
An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this legendary writer and her legacy, revealing the cultural icon’s profound impact as a visionary editor who helped define an important period in American publishing and literature.
Publication date: June 3
The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
John Seabrook
The riveting saga of the Seabrook Family, by one of The New Yorker’s most acclaimed storytellers. A compulsively readable story of class and privilege, betrayal and revenge―three decades in the making―The Spinach King explores the author’s complicated family legacy and the dark corners of the American Dream.
Publication date: June 3
What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything
Jessa Crispin
A hilarious, ambitious work of trenchant cultural criticism that traces the origins of today’s crisis of masculinity through . . . Michael Douglas’s oeuvre from the eighties and nineties
Publication date: June 3
Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i
Sara Kehaulani Goo
Set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist’s effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands―and find herself along the way. Part journalistic offering and part memoir, Kuleana interrogates deeper questions of identity, legacy, and what we owe to those who come before and after us.
Publication date: June 10
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
Claire McCardell forever changed fashion—and most importantly, the lives of women. She shattered cultural norms around women’s clothes, and today much of what we wear traces back to her ingenious, rebellious mind. Filled with personal drama and industry secrets, this story reveals how Claire McCardell built an empire at a time when women rarely made the upper echelons of business.
Publication date: June 17
A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to Fukushima
Marc Petitjean
A poignant, eye-opening portrait of a witness to the atomic bomb who dedicated his life to treating and advocating for radiation survivors. Through intimate, thoughtful interviews and compelling reportage, Marc Petitjean has created a worthy tribute to this determined, inspiring man who stood up to complicit governments and businesses. It testifies to the power of individuals to effect change as well as the importance of collective action, as demonstrated by organizations such as Nihon Hidankyo, a survivors’ group that would receive the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.
Publication date: June 24
Nonfiction
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Megan Greenwell
A timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers.
Publication date: June 3
Charlottesville: An American Story
Deborah Baker
Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker has written a riveting and panoptic account of what unfolded that weekend, focusing less on the rally’s far right leaders than on the story of the city itself. Baker shows how a city more associated with Thomas Jefferson than civil unrest became a flashpoint in a continuing struggle over our nation’s founding myths.
Publication date: June 3
Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines
Matthew Gavin Frank
An exquisite, lyrical foray into the world of deep-sea divers, the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us, and the story of submarine inventor Peter Madsen’s murder of journalist Kim Wall—a captivating blend of literary prose, science writing, and true crime
Publication date: June 3
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Evan Osnos
From New York Times bestselling and National Book Award–winning author Evan Osnos comes a timely and provocative collection of essays exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess, providing a wry, unfiltered look at how the ultrarich shape—and sometimes warp—our social and political landscape.
Publication date: June 3
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Kevin Sack
A sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice. At its core, Mother Emanuel is an epic account of perseverance, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement, Jim Crow, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith.
Publication date: June 3
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
Luke Pepera
Historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist Luke Pepera takes us on a personal journey discovering 500,000 years of African history and cultures in order to reclaim and reconnect with this extraordinary heritage. He tackles the question many people of African descent ask – Who are we? Where do we come from? What defines us? And it explores how knowledge of this deeper history might affect current understandings of African identity.
Publication date: June 3
Our Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation
Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
Two of Russia’s most prominent investigative journalists tell the “gripping” (Foreign Policy) story of how the hopes of their generation of optimistic Russians in the 1990s was replaced by autocracy, fear, and betrayal.
Publication date: June 3
Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
Brando Simeo Starkey
Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or Congress—aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution’s Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
Publication date: June 3
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler’s All-Female Concentration Camp
Lynne Olson
The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious concentration camp to defy the Nazis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War.
Publication date: June 3
Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible
Rachel Laryea
A groundbreaking look at how Black visionaries—from Wall Street to Lagos and beyond—are reimagining capitalism to benefit the needs of Black people and, ultimately, everyone.
Publication date: June 10
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
Caroline Fraser
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic landscape of deadly industrial violence.
Publication date: June 10
American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black & Queer Lives
Robert W. Fieseler
A vital exposé for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.
Publication date: June 17
The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman’s Reckoning with America’s Inhumane Math
Alíx Dick & Antero Garcia
An undocumented activist and a social scientist come together to tally of the structural costs of undocumented life.
Publication date: June 17
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Kate Marvel
A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet. Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief—but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted.
Publication date: June 17
The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly Science
Carly Anne York
Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting. A brilliant new voice in science writing shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science.
Publication date: June 17
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets
Dorothy Armstrong
Dorothy Armstrong tells the histories of some of the world’s most fascinating carpets, exploring how these textiles came into being then were transformed as they moved across geography and time in the slipstream of the great. She shows why the world’s powerful were drawn to them, but also asks what was happening in the weavers’ lives, and how they were affected by events in the world outside their tent, village or workshop.
Publication date: June 17
The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over Its Future
Carter Sherman
Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism,this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v. Wade, post-#MeToo America—and how the challenges they face are harbingers of what’s coming for the rest of us.
Publication date: June 24
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