New Books To Read This Summer
In this preview guide, discover some of the most anticipated new releases coming out this summer! From edge-of-your-seat thrillers to swoon-worthy love stories, you’ll be the first to know when your next favorite books are hitting the bookshelves.
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by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film — and awakens one woman’s hidden powers.
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When Your Back’s Against the Wall
by Michael Oher and Don Yaeger
The NFL champion whose life inspired the hit movie The Blind Side is back with an inspiring and motivating book on overcoming any obstacle, no matter how tough the odds.
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Dances
by Nicole Cuffy
A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this “striking debut” (Oprah Daily). Written with spellbinding beauty and ballet’s precise structure, Dances centers around women, art, and power, and how we come to define freedom for ourselves.
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Wildflower
by Aurora James
This extraordinary memoir of struggle and perseverance offers new ways of envisioning economic equality for everyone — from a leading activist and fashion pioneer.
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Wild Things
by Laura Kay
Two best friends. One huge crush. A year that could change everything … A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the country together.
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Slow AF Run Club
by Martinus Evans
A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all sizes and athletic ability, from the founder of the Slow AF Run Club. Full of essential advice and humor from a former newbie who fell off a treadmill on his first run (literally), The Slow AF Run Club is for anyone who wants to pick up running for the sheer joy of it.
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Excavations
by Hannah Michell
A former journalist turned stay-at-home mother ventures into the dark underbelly of Seoul, South Korea, to find her missing husband and protect her children in this gripping, page-turning exploration of the lengths one woman will go to unveil hard truths.
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They Called Us Exceptional
by Prachi Gupta
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in this searing, brave memoir.
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Save What’s Left
by Elizabeth Castellano
An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors. Save What’s Left can best be described as the “un-beach read.” It pulls back the curtain on life in a beach town, revealing the true cost of a pretty view. Told from the candid and irreverent perspective of a newcomer turned local, this is a story of forgiveness, fortitude, and second chances.
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Quietly Hostile
by Samantha Irby
A hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind the glitter and glam. Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.
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Vampires of El Norte
by Isabel Cañas
Vampires and vaqueros face off on the Texas-Mexico border in this supernatural western from the author of The Hacienda.
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The Ferryman
by Justin Cronin
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia — where the truth isn’t what it seems.
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When the World Didn’t End
by Guinevere Turner
In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood growing up with the infamous Lyman Family cult — and the complicated and unexpected pain of leaving the only home she’d ever known.
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Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of a family.
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The Only One Left
by Riley Sager
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier.
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The Wishing Game
by Meg Shaffer
Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.
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Deliver Me from Nowhere
by Warren Zanes
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen’s career.
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Rogue Justice
by Stacey Abrams
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court, and a brazen murder may lead to an unprecedented national crisis.
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The Country of the Blind
by Andrew Leland
A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author’s transition from sightedness to blindness and his quest to learn about blindness as a rich culture all its own. Thought-provoking and brimming with warmth and humor, The Country of the Blind is a deeply personal and intellectually exhilarating tour of a way of being that most of us have never paused to consider — and from which we have much to learn.
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The Wind Knows My Name
by 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.
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Almost Brown
by Charlotte Gill
An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
by Tom Hanks
From the legendary actor and bestselling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film … and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.
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The Daily Dad
by Ryan Holiday
From Ryan Holiday, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit The Daily Stoic, The Daily Dad provides 366 timeless meditations on parenting in a few manageable paragraphs a day — useful for even the most sleep deprived new parent. Whether you’re expecting your first or are already a grandparent, The Daily Dad offers encouragement, perspective, and practical advice for every stage of your child’s life.
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Light Bringer
by Pierce Brown
Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age.
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Stamped from the Beginning
by Ibram X. Kendi and Joel Christian Gill
A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, that explores, with vivid clarity and dimensionality, the living history of America, and how we can learn from the past to work toward a more equitable, antiracist future — from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist.
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The Quiet Tenant
by Clémence Michallon
A pulse-pounding psychological thriller about a serial killer narrated by those closest to him: his thirteen-year-old daughter, his girlfriend, and the one victim he has spared. Both a searing thriller and an astute study of trauma, survival, and the dynamics of power, The Quiet Tenant is an electrifying debut by a major talent.
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Prepared
by Mike Glover
A former Green Beret’s indispensable course in preparedness, teaching the keys to building a resilient and fearless life. Drawing on Glover’s most dire experiences in combat and in the real world, this book shows you how almost no disaster is more powerful than someone who is truly prepared. For Glover, surviving catastrophe is not about fearing crisis, but creating more resilient habits so that you can be ready for whatever comes your way.
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Mary Berry’s Baking Bible: Revised and Updated
by Mary Berry
Baking legend Mary Berry, longtime judge of The Great British Baking Show, presents this revised and updated edition of her seminal baking book, featuring 250 recipes, including 20 all-new bakes, updated photography, and Americanized measurements.
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Tenderheart
by Hetty Lui McKinnon
The acclaimed author of To Asia, With Love explores how food connects us to our loved ones and gives us the tools to make vegetarian recipes that are healthful, economical, and bursting with flavor.
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The Celebrants
by Steven Rowley
A deeply honest tribute to the growing pains of selfhood and the people who keep us going, coupled with Steven Rowley’s signature humor and heart, The Celebrants is a moving tale about the false invincibility of youth and the beautiful ways in which friendship helps us celebrate our lives, even amid the deepest challenges of living.
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Everybody Come Alive
by Marcie Alvis Walker
A dazzling memoir that explores what it means to become fully alive and holy when we embrace the silenced stories we’ve inherited — from the creator of Black Coffee with White Friends. Alvis Walker’s unforgettable writing challenges readers to not only see and hold her story as being fully human, but also to see and hold their own stories too.
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Franklin Smoke
by Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay
The ultimate guide to live-fire grilling and smoking at home, with recipes that will have you cooking up meat, vegetables, fish, and more like a true Texas fire wrangler — from the James Beard Award-winning team behind the New York Times bestseller Franklin Barbecue.
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Chain Gang All Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black.
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The Late Americans
by Brandon Taylor
The widely acclaimed author of Real Life and Filthy Animals returns with a deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads. A novel of friendship and chosen family, The Late Americans asks fresh questions about love and sex, ambition and precarity, and about how human beings can bruise one another while trying to find themselves.
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The Guest
by Emma Cline
A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. Propelled by desperation and a mutable sense of morality, she spends the week leading up to Labor Day moving from one place to the next, a cipher leaving destruction in her wake. Taut, propulsive, and impossible to look away, The Guest is a spellbinding literary achievement.
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Boys Weekend
by Mattie Lubchansky
From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-”final girl” horror graphic novel about a bachelor party gone very, very wrong. Part satire, part horror, Boys Weekend explores what it’s like to exist as a transfemme person in a man’s world, the difficulty of maintaining friendships through transition, and the more cult-like effects of masculinity, “hustle” culture, and capitalism — all through the vibrant lens of a surreal, scary, and immensely imaginative romp.
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The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Now in paperback!
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Lucky Red
by 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.
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