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
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
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
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
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
I wish I could tell you my new novel came to me out of the sky. Oh, wait. It did.
Stephanie MackJune 9, 2026
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
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
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
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
Women in STEM has been a hot topic in recent years. Whether its medical advances or landing spacecraft on the moon, women are proving what the fairer sex has known all along: female scientists kick ass. In fiction, too, I’ve seen a turn toward setting women in scientific fields recently,…
Kate KhavariJune 9, 2026
J. Mayberry's The Alpha Trace is an atmospheric and structurally inventive thriller that makes you uneasy about the world.
BookTribJune 10, 2026
What would happen if science discovered that death was not a mystery but a certainty — fixed, encoded and knowable down to the second? That is the premise at the heart of The Terminal Gene, John H. Thomas's techno-conspiracy thriller set in a near-future Boston. The answer Thomas delivers is…
BookTribJune 8, 2026
Things are heating up now that it’s summer and that also means it’s time to hit the beach or pool with a great new book. Whether you’re in the mood for murder, unexpected pregnancies, a retelling of Jane Eyre, a yacht filled with conniving influencers or siblings keeping dark secrets,…
Stephanie ElliotJune 8, 2026
From stalkers convinced they're soulmates to voyeurs drawn dangerously into strangers' lives, these novels explore the darker side of human desire.
BookTribJune 5, 2026