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?

May 2024 New Book Releases

Another month of new book releases is upon us! Here are 16 new May book releases on my TBR.

Another month of new book releases is upon us! Here are 16 new May book releases on my TBR.

May 7

The Ministry of Time // Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader Press)

An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley’s answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.

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How to Read a Book // Monica Wood (Mariner)

From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.

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Women and Children First // Alina Grabowski (SJP Lit)

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small Massachusetts town.

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Love Is a Burning Thing // Nina St. Pierre (Dutton)

A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mother: a woman who lived her life in pursuit of the divine, and who started two big fires, decades apart.

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The Z Word // Lindsay King-Miller (Quirk)

Packed with action, humor, sex, and big gay feelings, The Z Word is the queer zombie romp you didn’t know you needed.

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May 14

Last House // Jessica Shattuck (William Morrow)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family’s deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and Great Circle.

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The House That Horror Built // Christina Henry (Berkley)

A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don’t Die and Horseman.

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All Fours // Miranda July (Riverhead)

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.

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This Strange Eventful History // Claire Messud (Norton)

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.

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May 21

Wait // Gabriella Burnham (One World)

A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears in this alluring coming-of-age novel from the acclaimed author of It Is Wood, It Is Stone.

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The Guncle Abroad // Steven Rowley (Putnam)

Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.

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Undue Burden: Life and Dead Decisions In Post-Roe America // Shefali Luthra (Doubleday)

An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom.

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You Like It Darker // Stephen King (Scribner)

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

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May 28

Summer Fridays // Suzanne Rindell (Dutton)

You’ve Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger banter, about a freshly engaged editorial assistant who winds up spending her “summer Fridays” with the person she least expects.

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Knife River // Justine Champine (Dial)

A compelling story of family, home, and the bond between sisters that asks: Who do you believe when you can’t even trust yourself?

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Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor // Anne Kim (New Press)

A devastating investigation into the “corporate poverty complex”—the myriad businesses that profit from the poor.

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April 2024 New Book Releases

17 April books on my TBR

Another month of exciting new books releases is upon us! Here are the April new book releases on my radar.

April 2

Here We Go Again // Alison Cochrun (Atria)

The author of the “sexy, insightful, and utterly charming” (BuzzFeed) Kiss Her Once for Me returns with a new queer rom-com following once childhood best friends forced together to drive their former teacher across the country.

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Sociopath: A Memoir // Patric Gagne (Simon & Schuster)

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

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Habitations // Sheila Sundar (Simon & Schuster)

A young academic moves from India to the United States, where she navigates first love, a green card marriage, single motherhood, and more in this “delightful novel, written with immediacy, warmth, and wry humor”(Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting).

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The Husbands // Holly Gramazio (Doubleday)

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? (“A time-bending gem”—Gabrielle Zevin; “Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny.” –Claire Lombardo)

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April 9

A Better World // Sarah Langan (Atria)

A cunning, outside-the-box satirical thriller about a family’s odyssey into an exclusive enclave for the wealthy that might not be as ideal as it seems.

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The House of Broken Bricks // Fiona Williams (Holt)

Every marriage has its seasons…It’s autumn when we meet Tess, but her relationship with Richard is in a deep, cold winter. A winter so harsh, their union may never see the bright light of spring.

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality // Amanda Montell (Atria)

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

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The Garden // Clare Beams (Doubleday)

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women yearning to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson (“A masterpiece” – Elizabeth Gilbert)

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The Gathering // C.J. Tudor (Ballantine)

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.

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The Saddest Girl on the Beach // Heather Frese (Blair)

Grieving after her father’s death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend’s family runs a small inn.

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April 16

I Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art // Emily C. Bloom (St. Martin’s)

An eloquent and intimate debut memoir about navigating the gap between expectation and reality in modern motherhood.

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April 23

Funny Story // Emily Henry (Berkley)

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

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Lucky // Jane Smiley (Knopf)

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musician who rises to fame across our changing times.

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April 30

Colton Gentry’s Third Act // Jeff Zentner (Grand Central)

This “story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) from an award-winning author follows a down on his luck country musician who, in the throes of grief after a shocking loss, moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart.

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are // Jeneva Rose (Blackstone)

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.

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Within Arm’s Reach // Ann Napolitano (Dial Press)

The tender and perceptive debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful, about three generations of a large Catholic family jarred into crisis by an unexpected pregnancy.

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In Universes // Emet North (Harper)

For fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a profoundly imaginative debut novel set in numerous universes, which follows a queer physicist’s search for belonging across time and space.

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Tell me: What are you reading in April?