Fiction

Books About the Future of Medicine, Featuring Michael Crichton

Medicine is no longer confined to hospitals, scalpels and stethoscopes. It is moving quietly but relentlessly into territory once reserved for speculation: clones, artificial consciousness, genetic editing, suspended death. Fiction has been there first. The best medical thrillers and speculative novels don’t just entertain, they pressure-test ideas before reality catches…

Cristina LePortJune 18, 2026

Fiction

Behind the Grand Facades of Pill Hill, Dark Secrets Burn

Egyptologist, Victorianiana expert, and prolific author Diane Josefowicz has written The Great Houses of Pill Hill, a wickedly witty, sharp, and sophisticated locked-room mystery that takes place in a Gilded Age home in the fictional New England town of New Preston.

Linda HitchcockJune 17, 2026

Fiction Recommended

A Family Saga Where History Leaves No One Untouched

The Future Is Not Yet Written, Michael Weiner’s sequel to Both Sides of the Same Coin, begins where many stories might end: in the stunned aftermath of September 11, 2001. The novel follows the children, spouses and surviving relatives of the Klein, Carbone, Doyle, Roth and Bartell families, whose lives…

BookTribJune 16, 2026

Fiction Young Adult

“The Reel Life of Zara Kegg” Explores the Messy Reality of Loss and Growing Up

The Reel Life of Zara Kegg explores themes of grief and loss, loneliness, friendship, dysfunctional families and coming-of-age romance.

Natalia KavaleJune 16, 2026

Fiction Listicles

5 Nostalgic Road Trip Reads

The early days of summer have arrived at long last on the hot, tantalizing breezes of sunscreen, popsicles, and flip flops galore. Now is the time so many of us feel the need to bust free of our daily restraints and fill our lungs with the sunshiney goodness of the…

J'nell CiesielskiJune 15, 2026

Fiction Romance

A Seductive Descent into New York’s Glittering Underworld

Jamie Brenner's Blue Angel is a smart, sensuous, and thoroughly entertaining dive into the electric underbelly of New York City nightlife. This is seduction as literary art: wicked, atmospheric, and impossible to put down.

BookTribJune 12, 2026

Fiction

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

A few years ago, I woke from a dream with this phrase in my mind: Heaven is running out of angels.

Lauren KateJune 9, 2026

Fiction

Maggie O’Farrell’s “Land” Explores the Power of Place

In one of the most anticipated releases of the year, Land tells the story of a peninsula on the western edge of Ireland in the aftermath of the great famine. In her first book following the breakout novel Hamnet, Author Maggie O’Farrell combines gripping generational drama with fabled mysteries of…

Michael FerryJune 12, 2026

Fiction Miscellany

How My Novel About a Hasidic Woman Tells a Universal Story

Books have the capacity to break down differences by being different. It is very much my hope that my novel does just that. And that my readers might discover that a story about a Hasidic woman might also be a story about them.

Talya JankovitsJune 15, 2026

Fiction

Sofia Montrone’s Nymph Is a Lyrical Coming-of-Age Journey Through Love and Loss

Sofia Montrone’s debut novel, Nymph, is a coming of age story that will sweep you away into the Italian countryside. Split into two parts, Nymph takes us on Leo’s journey as she grows from girl to woman.

Kristin KeatonJune 11, 2026

Fiction Listicles

5 Novels on the Cost of a Curated Life

There is a distinct, intoxicating friction in stories about the moneyed elite, but the true captivation begins when their immaculate facades start to crack. In these five exceptional contemporary novels, wealth and social supremacy are treated not just as privileges but as high-stakes, endless efforts of narrative control. The families…

BookTribJune 10, 2026

Fiction

I Took a Pickleball to the Face—and It Changed the Course of My Life

I wish I could tell you my new novel came to me out of the sky. Oh, wait. It did.

Stephanie MackJune 9, 2026

Fiction Listicles Popular

Magic and Mystery in Six Stories of Extraordinary Women

History is filled with women whose stories have been overlooked, forgotten or left untold. In fiction, authors often reclaim those voices by blending the ordinary with the extraordinary, weaving together magic, folklore, spirituality and mystery to illuminate lives. The six novels below each focus on remarkable women whose gifts allow…

Michelle St. RomainJune 10, 2026

Fiction Recommended

When Escape Becomes the Journey Home

In Lori Keesey’s Second Chance Highway, escape is only the first act of courage. Ginny Carmichael has already done the urgent thing: she has fled Atlanta with her infant daughter, Laurel, leaving behind Jacob Hudson, the charming, controlling fiancé whose abuse has made her life smaller and smaller. But getting…

BookTribJune 11, 2026

Fiction

A Chance Encounter Resurrects Love and Loss in Ann Patchett’s “Whistler”

Once again, in Whistler, Patchett has woven a rich, complex saga of love and loss destined to become a novel not to be missed.

Jodé MillmanJune 10, 2026

Fiction Romance

Writing for the Outcasts – “Her Sharp Embrace”

When I started writing Her Sharp Embrace, I returned to my teenage self. That anxious outcast was racing toward a future she hoped would embrace her more gently than the world she’d always known. As I drafted, the vice-tight ache of loneliness stayed with me. I wanted to remember what…

Kate KoenigJune 9, 2026

Books About the Future of Medicine, Featuring Michael Crichton

Behind the Grand Facades of Pill Hill, Dark Secrets Burn

A Family Saga Where History Leaves No One Untouched

5 Nostalgic Road Trip Reads

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

How My Novel About a Hasidic Woman Tells a Universal Story

I Took a Pickleball to the Face—and It Changed the Course of My Life

When Escape Becomes the Journey Home

Writing for the Outcasts – “Her Sharp Embrace”

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