30 Summer Debut Novels You May Have Missed

There’s nothing like picking up a debut novel and feeling like you’ve found your new favorite author.
As the season comes to a close, we wanted to round up the most popular adult debut novels published in the U.S. from June through August to highlight some new voices that you can say you “discovered.”
From the Booker Prize longlisted The New Wilderness to the first contact sci-fi of Axiom’s End, there’s a fantastic novel here for whatever reading mood you find yourself in.
Do you have a debut novel recommendation? Share it with your fellow readers in the comments below!
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Twenty years of addiction to cloud, a drug which wipes the user's short-term memory, have left single mom Mellie with her mind in fragments. With the help of a tough-minded sponsor, and motivated by her own medically-challenged daughter, Mellie clings to a fragile sobriety. Then, on the evening of her twenty-ninth day sober, a stranger pulls into her driveway ...
From my review: loved the novel and couldn’t put it down except when I had to put it down because Mellie after being sober for almost a month is risking her recovery and her toddler’s well-being when she’s drawn back to Cloud. I really wanted to know what happened in Mellie’s life, but she can’t help me. Years of cloud use hasn’t just erased short-term memory, but much of her life is gone or inaccessible. But flashbacks to her earlier life helped me piece things together, or is she recovering these memories?