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Readers' Most Anticipated Books of June
Another month, another flood of intriguing new books. Make room on your bedside table or in your Kindle queue—things are about to get busy.
New in June: Drinks and binoculars make a dangerous combination in Riley Sager’s thriller The House Across the Lake. Family drama and percolating suspense blend together in Katie Gutierrez’s More Than You'll Ever Know. And a mysterious worldwide delivery of little boxes triggers big changes in Nikki Erlick’s sci-fi–adjacent novel The Measure. Also: Victorian street urchins, derelict hotels, and magnetic turtles.
Each month the Goodreads editorial team takes a look at the books that are being published in the U.S., readers' early reviews, and how many readers are adding these books to their Want to Read shelves (which is how we measure anticipation). We use the information to curate this list of hottest new releases.
Historical fiction regulars will want to check out this western saga from Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina. Tea leaf reader Luz "Little Light" Lopez must fend for herself after her brother is run off by a white mob. When Luz starts experiencing intense visions of her homeland, she realizes that someone has to keep these family stories alive. Beginning in 1930s Denver, the tale ultimately chronicles five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family.
Read our interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine here.
Read our interview with Kali Fajardo-Anstine here.
Recently widowed Casey Fletcher has been drinking-and-spying on Tom and Katherine Royce, the seemingly perfect couple in the house across the lake. When one of them disappears, Casey learns about the dangers of drunken voyeurism. The hard way. The House Across the Lake is the latest mystery thriller from genre professional Riley Sager (Final Girls), who specializes in psychological suspense and especially twisty twists.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you. Ace essayist Sloane Crosley (I Was Told There’d Be Cake) returns to the novel format with Cult Classic, a literary mystery-thriller featuring a New York City heroine who may or may not be the target of a very contemporary, oddly romantic cult. Here’s a tip: If you accidentally run into more than five former boyfriends on the same night, something is up.
The latest mystery from author Sulari Gentill (the Rowland Sinclair series) brings readers to a corner table in the Boston Public Library, where a terrified scream echoes through the bookshelves. A body has just been found, and police have locked down the building. Four strangers sit at a table, forced to pass the time while the cops sort things out. One of them is a murderer. For more on interesting places for murder mysteries, check this out.
Debut author Katie Gutierrez dangles a pretty good hook in her first novel. More Than You'll Ever Know blends insightful family drama with dark suspense as it toggles between two timelines and stories. In the first story, set in the 1980s, international banker Delores Rivera leads a double life with families in Texas and Mexico. In the second story, a true-crime writer in 2017 investigates the murder of Rivera’s husband—by her other husband.
The new one from author Kirstin Chen (Soy Sauce for Beginners) looks like fun—a semi-comic feminist caper story featuring a desperate attorney, her mischievous former college roommate, and the weird world of knockoff luxury handbags. Counterfeit has its serious side, too, as Chen interrogates the relationship between upscale American storefronts and the dangerous Chinese factories that supply them.
Summer beach book specialist Elin Hilderbrand is back with this story about the formerly glamorous Hotel Nantucket, now an abandoned eyesore. Billionaire Xavier Darling—good billionaire name—wants to restore the hotel to its Gilded Age glory, so he hires a team of locals headed up by intrepid townie Lizbet Keaton. One problem: The hotel is haunted by the ghost of a teenage chambermaid killed in 1922, and she won’t rest until her story is told.
"And anyway, if you're ever desperate, there are always ducks, darling." That’s the mysterious message left behind by Laurie Sassalyn’s great-aunt Dot, along with a wooden duck of dubious provenance. Sifting through her late relative’s estate in small-town Maine, Laurie finds herself swept up into strange doings involving crooked antiques dealers, wily con men, and Laurie’s first love. Author Linda Holmes (Evvie Drake Starts Over) returns with a funny and warm summer read.
Here’s a spooky premise: What if you woke up one morning to find a box by the door, and inside that box was a message—the exact number of years you have left before you die? And what if everyone on the planet got their own box? That’s the setup for The Measure, the debut novel from travel writer–turned–novelist Nikki Erlick, and it's another promising indication that the line between literary fiction and speculative fiction has been permanently blurred.
Another interesting foray into speculative fiction, this debut novel from author J.M. Miro—the first of a planned trilogy—starts with a decidedly steampunk kind of vibe. In gaslit London, 1882, two teenage urchins with magical powers travel to Edinburgh in search of a mysterious destination known as the Institute. The plan: to join other supernaturally gifted children and prevent the world of the living from colliding with the world of the dead. That’s a good plan!
The first of two fascinating nonfiction books coming out this month, An Immense World explores the many strange ways that animals perceive their surroundings, from dogs that live in an invisible olfactory realm to turtles that can read the earth’s magnetic fields. Malaysian-born science writer Ed Yong (I Contain Multitudes) is an elite-level journalist; he won a Pulitzer Prize last year for his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic.
A longtime contributor to The New Yorker magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe is the other top-shelf journalist releasing a new book this month. Rogues collects 12 of Keefe’s longread pieces from the magazine, including stories on vintage wine bottle forgery, Swiss money laundering, black market arms dealing, and a Vietnamese vacation with the late and lovable rogue Anthony Bourdain. Bonus trivia: Keefe previously won the National Magazine Award, the Orwell Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!
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Jun 01, 2022 12:53PM
Woman of light is my pick. 📖🔖📜
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Woman of Light and The Woman in the Library were on my list. June releases not on this list that I'm looking forward to are:The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
For the Love of the Bard by Jessica Martin
The Last Dress from Paris by Jade Beer
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Love & Other Great Expectations by Becky Dean
Edit to add: I don’t feel well so I got lazy and didn’t tag the authors with the books. I feel badly about that. I’m sorry, but the links still work wonderfully to take you one link closer to purchasing these gorgeous looking books….
There are several that sound interesting but, I have to admit, nothing that I am really excited about.
Looking forward to reading quite a few of these!The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill
More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro
Hayjay315 wrote: "Woman of Light and The Woman in the Library were on my list. June releases not on this list that I'm looking forward to are:The Candid Life of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
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Thanks for adding in Interesting books for me to add to my reading list! I'm looking forward to:
The Candid Life Of Meena Dave by Namrata Patel
The Last Dress From Paris by Jade Beer
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter by Lizzie Pook
A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
I have my eye on The Measure by Nikki Erlick - already prepaid and will start as soon as becomes available.
I received a galley of Woman of Light, it is wonderful and worth reading!!
Loved Golden Girl, so I’m looking forward to Hilderbrand’s The Hotel Nantucket
Window Friends by Carol Darley Dow is next in my list!
Can't wait for Stephen King's new one "Fairy Tale"/╲/\╭(•‿•)╮/\╱\
The Woman in the Library sounds interesting & my choice. Also Something Wilder by Christina Lauren.
For the Throne by Hannah WhittenOrdinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
An Immense World by Ed Jong
I agree with Laura Rogers’s comment! Looking forward to July’s published books & recommdations!!! Thank you!
The Woman in the Library sounds really REALLY good! I’m looking @ my TBR like: 😬🫣
The Woman in the Library sounds like a carbon copy of One of Us is Lying
For me, The Woman in the Library and Ordinary Monsters. Always interested in checking out new authors, even if I change my mind and don't read the entire trilogy. On the other hand, having read The Hednna Artist and I looking forward to the release of the third novel in that series.
I will try Cult Classic and Ordinary Monsters.
Two Dragons by Octavia Randolph. It’s book 9 of the series❣️
Cathy wrote: "I read everything by Patrick Radden Keefe."I have read 'Empire' and 'Say Nothing'!Just started 'Rogues' and it is so good..he is a fabulous writer!
