As the day length reaches its peak this month, I hope you’re well on the way with your summer reading journey! Whether that be vacation reading, reading outdoors, participating in Book Bingo, or something else altogether. Take a gander at June’s new releases for some inspiration, including new books by S.A. Cosby, Jess Walter, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and more.
6/3: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In 1980, physics professor Joan Goodwin jumps at the chance of a lifetime: to become one of NASA’s first female astronauts. By the author of Daisy Jones and the Six. (general fiction)
6/3: Endling by Maria Reva
In 2022 Ukraine, a scientist breeding rare snails and a pair of sisters searching for their missing activist mother are all tangled up in a booming matchmaking industry. As they team up to help one another with their goals, traveling across Ukraine with a truck of kidnapped men, Russia invades. (general fiction)
6/3: Flashlight by Susan Choi
A girl and her father on the beach, swept out to sea; only she returns to shore. Returning again and again to this moment of familial catastrophe, Choi examines the cultural and geopolitical fractures that shape one family. (general fiction)
6/3: The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater
June Porter Hudson manages the luxurious Avallon Hotel in the mountains of West Virginia. But World War II brings trouble to the door when the Avallon’s owners agree to house captured Nazi diplomats. (historical fiction)
6/10: Audition by Pip Adam
Three giants in the hold of a spaceship must talk in order to power the ship, and to keep themselves from growing, and so recount their shared history and years of imprisonment. (general fiction/science fiction)
6/10: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
Three women (lesbians; vampires) grapple with hunger, love, and jealousy across centuries and continents. (fantasy)
6/10: Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall
Detective Nicola Bridge, recently returned to her small hometown village Fleetcombe, must immediately tackle the disturbing death of the local pub owner, found tied to a chair in the middle of the road with antlers on his head. By the creator of Broadchurch. (mystery)
6/10: The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen by Shokoofeh Azar
The story of a sprawling Iranian family is told over 50 years, weaving together Zoroastrian mythology, the 1979 Revolution, the night the 12 children got lost inside a palace, and much more. (general fiction)
6/17: These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
In 1960s Georgia, 17-year-old Doris Steele needs an abortion. To get one, she’ll visit her favorite teacher in Atlanta where, over the course of a weekend, Doris will be introduced to a world she didn’t know existed full of celebrities and artists, parties, atheists, and ambitious women who know what they want. (historical fiction)
6/10: King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
Roman Carruthers returns to his small Virginia hometown to find his father in a coma, his sister struggling to hold the family crematorium business together, and his brother in debt to organized crime. Now he’s back, and Roman will do what it takes to make things right. By the author of All the Sinners Bleed. (thriller)
6/10: So Far Gone by Jess Walter
Rhys Kinnick lives off the grid – in the woods, no tech – until he learns that his daughter is missing and his grandkids were kidnapped by members of a militia. Rhys comes out of the woods and joins up with a motley crew in search of his family. (general fiction)
6/17: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
In a remote house in the Catalonian mountains, and old woman is dying. 400 years prior, her ancestor made a deal with the devil but managed to come out on top. As the woman tips in and out of consciousness, centuries of stories unfurl.
6/17: The Summer House by Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani
A small team of Japanese architects relocates to a mountain town where they work on a design bid for a new National Library of Modern Literature. (general fiction)
6/24: I’ll Be Right Here by Amy Bloom
From pre-World War II Paris to 2015 upstate New York, Algerian-French Gazala builds a sprawling, unconventional found family over three generations. (general fiction)
6/24: Murder on Sex Island by Jo Firestone
PI Luella van Horn is hired to go on her favorite reality show, Sex Island, to solve the disappearance of a cast member. As Luella digs into the dark side of the production, a dead body shows up in her bathtub. But she might also be falling in love? Complicated times. (mystery)
6/24: When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa
Javi and Mari, college best friends, always swore they would vet each other’s potential spouse. But now Mari is engaged, and Javi has six weeks to convince her the two of them belong together instead. (romance)
~ posted by Andrea G.
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