June 2024 New Book Releases

Another month of amazing new book releases is upon us and June is stacked! Here are 26 June book releases on my TBR.

June 4

Summer Romance // Annabel Monaghan (Putnam)

The romantic and hilarious story of a professional organizer whose life is a mess, and the summer she gets unstuck with the help of someone unexpected from her past.

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All the Summers in Between // Brooke Lea Foster (Gallery)

A page-turning novel about two estranged friends whose unexpected reconnection in the Hamptons forces them to finally confront the terrible event that drove them apart.

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Soldier Sailor // Claire Kilroy (Scribner)

Shortlisted for The Women’s Prize. An exquisite and provocative novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

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Fire Exit // Morgan Talty (Tin House)

A masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.

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Bright and Tender Dark // Joanna Pearson (Bloomsbury)

A wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.

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Past Present Future // Rachel Lynn Solomon (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)

They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance relationship during their first year of college in this romantic, dual POV sequel to Today Tonight Tomorrow.

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Honey // Isabel Banta (Celadon)

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in the late-90s and early-2000s era of pop music superstardom.

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June 11

Margo’s Got Money Troubles // Rufi Thorpe (William Morrow)

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world.

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Horror Movie // Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.

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Moonbound // Robin Sloan (MCD)

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.

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Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell // Ann Powers (Dey Street)

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.

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The Friday Afternoon club: A Family Memoir (Penguin Press)

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances.

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June 18

Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books // Kirsten Miller (William Morrow)

A bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.

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Devil is Fine // John Vercher (Celadon)

Vercher deftly blurs the lines between real and imagined, past and present, tragedy and humor, and fathers and sons in this story of discovering and reclaiming a painful past.

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Little Rot // Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)

One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A tangled web of sex and lies and corruption that leaves no one unscathed.

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Sandwich // Catherine Newman (Doubleday)

One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong…?

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One-Star Romance // Laura Hankin (Berkley)

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who gave her book a very public one-star rating in this fresh romantic comedy.

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Same As It Ever Was // Claire Lombardo (Doubleday)

A brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present.

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Middle of the Night // Riley Sager (Dutton)

A man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.

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The Nature of Disappearing // Kimi Cunningham Grant (Minotaur)

In this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduced them goes missing.

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We Used To Live Here // Marcus Kliewer (Atria/Bestler)

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

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June 25

All the Colors of the Dark // Chris Whitaker (Crown)

A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.

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How the Light Gets In // Joyce Maynard (William Morrow)

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the beloved novel Count the Ways—a complex story of three generations of a family and its remarkable, resilient, indomitable matriarch, Eleanor.

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Incidents Around the House // Josh Malerman (Del Ray)

A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy.”

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A Novel Love Story // Ashley Poston (Berkley)

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally.

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Please Stop Trying to Leave Me // Alana Saab (Vintage)

An “engrossing, affecting, and singular” (Publishers Weekly) debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world.

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Tell me: which June releases are you most looking forward to reading?

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