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These are the hottest books of the summer!
We've picked out all the biggest books coming out -- in all genres -- just for you!
Everything on this list is being released in June, July or August. Books that are not yet released have their release date noted. We also threw in a few of our summery backlist favorites.
H O T new fiction
Crook Manifesto
Colson Whitehead
7/18
The Heaven & Earth
Grocery Store
James McBride
8/8
The Memory of Animals
Claire Fuller
I Am Homeless If
This is Not My Home
Lorrie Moore
Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson
August Blue
Deborah Levy
The Wind Knows
My Name
Isabel Allende
Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo
8/1
H O T new nonfiction
Pageboy
Elliot Page
In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems
Giorgio Parisi
7/11
The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
Alexander Stille
The Quickening: Creation and Community at the End of the Earth
Elizabeth Rush
8/15
Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America
Krista Burton
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
Backlist favorites
A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr
A Room With a View
E. M. Forster
Sag Harbor
Colson Whitehead
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Horns
Joe Hill
A Separation
Katie Kitamura
Poetry
I Do Everything
I'm Told
Megan Fernandes
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
Taylor Byas
8/22
The Book of Light: Anniversary Edition
Lucille Clifton
8/29
So to Speak
Terrance Hayes
7/18
Literature in Translation
My Stupid Intentions
Bernardo Zannoni, trans. Alex Andriesse
Beijing Sprawl
Xu Zechen, trans.
Jeremy Tiang & Eric
Abrahamsen
Crooked Plow
Itamar Viera Junior, trans. Johnny Lorenz
Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird
Agustina Bazterrica, trans. Sarah Moses
A Little Luck
Claudia Piñeiro, trans. Francis Riddle
7/11
The End of August
Yu Miri, trans.
Morgan Giles
8/1
Romance
Business or Pleasure
Rachel Lynn Solomon
7/4
Will They or Won't They
Ava Wilder
Play to Win
Jodie Slaughter
7/11
Role Playing
Cathy Yardley
To Have and To Heist
Sara Desai
7/18
Love, Theoretically
Ali Hazelwood
Sci-fi & Fantasy
The Archive Undying Emma Mieko Candon The Water Outlaws S. L. Huang 8/22 Immortal Longings Chloe Gong 7/18 Counterweight Djuna, trans. Anton Hur 7/11
Spooky stuff
Silver Nitrate
Silvia MorenoGarcia
7/18
Everything the Darkness Eats
Eric LaRocca
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
Looking Glass Sound
Catriona Ward
8/8
Young adult
Sing Me to Sleep
Gabi Burton
The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl
Emily Riesbeck
8/8
Give Me a Sign
Anna Sortino
7/11
Unnecessary Drama
Nina Kenwood
8/8