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Curious about what books will be released in the months ahead so you can pre-order or reserve them? Then click on the months below.

Please note we have not included every book that is coming out, but rather some that caught our eye --- and that we thought should catch yours as well.

June 2025

Hardcover

The Dallergut Dream-Making District by Miye Lee - Fantasy, Fiction

Hanover Square Press | 9781335015358 | Published June 24, 2025

It's been a year since Penny first walked through the doors of the Dallergut Dream Department Store and surviving a year at the store means one thing. She is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream-production companies are located and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected. Instead it hides a secret underbelly of the magical industry. Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams. She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, moving beyond the role of dreamseller to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars.

The Girls Who Grew Big by Leila Mottley - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Knopf | 9780593801123 | Published June 24, 2025

Adela Woods is 16 years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. When she arrives, Adela meets Emory, who brings her newborn to high school, determined to graduate despite the odds; Simone, mother of four-year-old twins, who weighs her options when she finds herself pregnant again; and the rest of the Girls, a group of outcast young moms who raise their growing brood in the back of Simone’s red truck. The town thinks the Girls have lost their way, but really they are finding it: looking for love, making and breaking friendships and navigating the miracle of motherhood and the paradox of girlhood.

The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce - Fiction, Women's Fiction

The Dial Press | 9780593448298 | Published June 24, 2025

There is a heatwave across Europe, and four siblings have gathered at their family’s lake house to seek answers about their father, a famous artist, who recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his long-awaited masterpiece. Now he is dead. As the siblings try to piece together what happened, they spend the summer in a state of lawlessness: living under the same roof for the first time in decades, forced to confront the buried wounds they incurred as his children and waiting for answers. Though they have always been close, the things they learn that summer will drive them apart before they can truly understand his legacy. Meanwhile, their stepmother’s enigmatic presence looms over the house. Is she the force that will finally destroy the family for good?

Paperback

Go as a River by Shelley Read - Fiction

Spiegel & Grau | 9781954118638 | Published June 3, 2025

Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family’s peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion as danger. When tragedy strikes, Victoria leaves the only life she has ever known. She flees into the surrounding mountains where she struggles to survive in the wilderness with no clear notion of what her future will bring. As the seasons change, she also charts the changes in herself, finding in the beautiful but harsh landscape the meaning and strength to move forward and rebuild all that she has lost, even as the Gunnison River threatens to submerge her homeland.

Just Beachy by Wendy Wax - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Berkley | 9780593335963 | Published June 3, 2025

After losing her long-time acting gig on the hit show “Murder 101,” Sydney Ryan decides she needs a break from Hollywood politics. She heads to Treasure Island, Florida, where her grandmother has been visiting and now refuses to leave. But Sydney’s plan to lie low for a bit quickly goes awry as she is swept up in her grandmother’s now flourishing social life. Grand is helping her neighbor, Myra, open a bookstore in Pass-a-Grille. But when someone breaks into Grand’s house repeatedly, Sydney realizes that her grandmother is keeping something from her. Determined to ferret out the truth and protect her grandmother, Sydney enlists the help of the Ten Beach Road ladies and Luke, a local police officer who was once her high school crush.

Strange Houses written by Uketsu , translated by Jim Rion - Fiction, Horror, Mystery

HarperVia | 9780063433151 | Published June 3, 2025

When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an acquaintance, he finds himself investigating an eerie house for sale in Tokyo. At first, with its bright and spacious interior, it seems the perfect first home. But upon closer inspection, the building’s floor plans reveal a mysterious "dead space” hidden between its walls. Seeking a second opinion, the writer shares the floor plans with his friend Kurihara, an architect, only to discover more unnerving details throughout. What is the true purpose behind the house’s disturbing design? And what happened to the former owners who disappeared without a trace? When a body suddenly appears and a young woman reaches out about a second house, it soon becomes clear that the writer and his friend may be in over their heads.

Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews - Fiction, Women's Fiction

St. Martin's Griffin | 9781250822352 | Published June 3, 2025

Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn’t rich enough or connected enough to vacation at St. Cecelia. But she could work there. One fateful summer she did, and she married the boss’s son. Now, she’s the widowed owner of the hotel, determined to see it return to its glory days, even as staff shortages and financial troubles threaten to ruin it. Plus, her greedy and unscrupulous brother-in-law wants to make sure she fails. Enlisting a motley crew of recently hired summer help --- including the daughter of her estranged best friend --- Traci has one summer season to turn it around. But new information about a long-ago drowning at the hotel threatens to come to light, and the tragic death of one of their own brings Traci to the brink of despair.

The Expat Affair by Kimberly Belle - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Park Row | 9780778310945 | Published June 3, 2025

Following a nasty divorce, Rayna Dumont came to Amsterdam for a fresh start. She’s never been the type for a one-night stand, but this move is all about adventure and Xander is handsome and successful and more than willing to go along for the ride. Until the morning after, when Rayna finds him dead on the shower floor and millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds missing from his safe. From her lavish home in the heart of the city, Willow Prins is captivated by the news. Her husband is Xander’s former boss and heir to a diamond house and the scandal strains their already-rocky marriage. As the house comes under scrutiny, Willow wonders if her life is about to implode --- and how much of the blame she can place on Rayna. Soon, Willow and Rayna are dragged into the dark and dangerous underbelly of the diamond market, where they’ll have to uncover the truth to survive. 

The Summer That Changed Everything by Brenda Novak - Fiction, Romance, Women's Fiction

Mira | 9780778387688 | Published June 3, 2025

It's been 15 years since Lucy Sinclair saw her father. Fifteen long years since she sat in a courtroom and watched him sentenced to life in prison. He murdered three victims --- all people she knew --- which ruined her life at just 17. But now she’s back in Virginia to talk to him, wondering if there’s more to the story of what happened that fateful night. An old flame, Ford Wagner, makes his own return to North Hampton Beach, fleeing a marriage that seems destined for divorce. He’s wary of Lucy and her digging into the past, but the more time they spend together, the closer they get and the more he finds himself reconsidering the truth behind the death of their mutual friend that summer. Problem is, there are plenty of those in this small coastal town who would prefer things stay quiet.

A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais - Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Mystery

Mira | 9780778368601 | Published June 10, 2025

Destiny Whip is a former child prodigy, world-renowned enigmatologist and a letter arrives inviting her to interview for the position of Scruffmore family historian. She decodes the invitation's hidden message with ease and soon finds herself on Eerie Island. It’s a place whose inhabitants are almost as inhospitable as the tempestuous weather. The Scruffmores themselves turn out to be not much better, a snarled mess of secrets and motives connected by their mistrust for one another. Their newly arrived guest proves to be just as much an enigma to them as they are to her. While Destiny slowly works to unravel the mysteries hidden throughout the ominous castle, she struggles to interpret disturbing nightly visions of what is to come. In the midst of cryptic ciphers, hidden passages and the family’s magical line of succession, Destiny is certain of two things: one of the Scruffmores is going to die, and she’s running out of time to stop it.

Last Night Was Fun by Holly Michelle - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Romance, Women's Fiction

Avon | 9780063420366 | Published June 10, 2025

Emmy Jameson lives by three rules: no dating, no sharing personal news at work and baseball above everything. Especially when she’s put up for a senior analyst position against her arrogant, infuriating coworker Gabe Olson. There will be no distractions this summer. Not even her sister’s pending destination wedding in Mexico for which she needs to find a plus one. But when she strikes up a conversation with a mystery texter, Emmy can’t deny the instant connection she feels and soon finds herself falling for the stranger on the other side of the screen...and inviting him to her sister’s wedding. Emmy’s world turns upside down when her mystery man turns out to be none other than Gabe Olson. They are left having to travel to the wedding together while trying to sort out which version of their relationship is real: their in-person rivalry or the deep connection they found in their messages.

Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver - Comedy, Fiction, Humor, Romance

Dell | 9780593722886 | Published June 10, 2025

Talent agent Charlie Francisco has three problems: a divorce that ended his screenwriting career, a business he never planned to inherit and a take-your-breath-away romance novel whose author wants nothing to do with its publication. The book is a surefire hit, if only his agency can find someone to “play” author on its summer book tour. Enter Kate Elliott, a former soap actress who’s miraculously right for the part at the very moment her life seems to be going all wrong. But she can’t know who really wrote the remarkable story. When Kate and Charlie meet they’re all friction and sparks --- the one thing they have in common is they’re determined to play their respective parts. But as the summer heat ups and the lies get bigger and bigger, can they stick to their lines...or will they go off-script?

A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry - Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical Fantasy, Historical Fiction

Tor Books | 9781250334183 | Published June 17, 2025

I feared this was the best of times; I hoped it could not get any worse. The faeries stole Sydney Carton as a child and made him a mortal servant of the Faery Realm. Now, he has a rare opportunity for revenge against the fae and Charles Darnay, the changeling left in his stead. It will take magic and cunning --- cold iron and Realm silver --- to hide his intentions from humans and fae and bring his plans to fruition. Shuttling between London and Paris during the Reign of Terror, generations of violence-begetting-violence lead him to a heartbreaking choice in the shadow of the guillotine.

Now or Never: A Stephanie Plum Novel by Janet Evanovich - Fiction, Mystery

Atria Books | 9781668003152 | Published June 17, 2025

She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. With timely assists from her stalwart supporters Lula, Connie and Grandma Mazur, Stephanie uses every trick in the book to reel in these men. But only she can decide what to do about the two men she actually loves. She can’t hold Ranger and Morelli at bay for long, and she’s keeping a secret from them that is the biggest bombshell of all. Now or never, she has to make the decision of a lifetime.

The Teacher of Auschwitz by Wendy Holden - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Harper Perennial | 9780063398214 | Published June 17, 2025

Amid the brutality of the Holocaust, one bright spot shone inside the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. In the shadows of the smokestacks was a wooden hut where children sang, staged plays, wrote poetry and learned about the world. Within those four walls, brightly adorned with hand-painted cartoons, the youngest prisoners were kept vermin-free, received better food and were even taught to imagine having full stomachs and a day without fear. Their guiding light was a 27-year-old gay, Jewish athlete: Fredy Hirsch. Being a teacher in a brutal concentration camp was no mean feat. Forced to beg senior SS officers for better provisions, Fredy risked his life every day to protect his beloved children from mortal danger. But time was running out for Fredy and the hundreds in his care. Could this man find a way to teach them the one lesson they really needed to know: how to survive?

Look Before You Leap by Virginia Heath - Comedy, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Humor, Romance

St. Martin's Griffin | 9781250896094 | Published June 24, 2025

Nine years ago, Lord Guy Harrowby was publicly humiliated by a failed and reckless romantic gesture. Despite this, his mother clings to the promise he made her then: that she would have a house full of grandchildren by his 30th birthday. Still single and approaching 30, Guy's work is his life. In desperation, his mother blindsides Guy with a weeklong house party filled with annoying debutantes, all competing to be his wife. After failing as a governess, Lottie Travers is struggling as a lady’s companion. Raised in an all-male household, she’s developed habits that get her dismissed. Even after years of Miss Prentice’s teachings, she can’t resist riding horses astride. But with the family farm in trouble, she’s determined to conquer her wildness. Even with his home full of eligible women, there is only one who catches Guy’s eye. Will they remain stuck or learn that they may just be the perfect match?