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6 New Books Recommended by Readers This Week

Posted by Cybil on July 11, 2023

Need another excuse to treat yourself to a new book this week? We've got you covered with the buzziest new releases of the day, according to early data from your fellow readers.

To create our list, we focused on the books Goodreads members can't wait to read, which we measure by how many times a book has been added to Want to Read shelves. All these top titles are now available in the United States! Which ones catch your eye?

Best books of the week:

Hello Stranger
by Katherine Center

You should read this book if you like: Romance, portrait artists afflicted with face blindness who subsequently fall in love with two different men, dogs named Peanut, The Bodyguard

Ripe
by Sarah Rose Etter

You should read this book if you like: Contemporary fiction with elements of dystopian sci-fi, Silicon Valley inequities, terminal stage capitalism, little black holes, The Book of X

The Beast You Are: Stories
by Paul Tremblay

You should read this book if you like: Horror, short story collections, dead things, weird things, scary things, innovative short fiction on the theme of monsters, A Head Full of Ghosts

The Paris Agent
by Kelly Rimmer

You should read this book if you like: Historical fiction, mysteries, WWII stories told by characters in 1970s Liverpool, secret agents, heroic exploits, The Things We Cannot Say

The Sea Elephants
by Shastri Akella

You should read this book if you like: Historical fiction, queer coming-of-age stories, traveling theater troops in India, the redemptive power of art, debut novels

Dead of Winter
by Darcy Coates

You should read this book if you like: Horror, thrillers, suspense, Rocky Mountain tour group expeditions gone wrong, remote cabins, psycho killers, The Haunting of Ashburn House

Which new releases are you looking forward to reading? Let's talk books in the comments!