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July 8, 2022 - July 22, 2022

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of July 8 - July 22.

Which of the following fiction titles releasing in July are you planning to read? Please check all that apply.

July 8, 2022, 675 voters

Week of July 25, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 25th include THE RUNAWAY, the seventh installment in Nick Petrie's powerful thriller series featuring war veteran Peter Ash, who rescues a stranded woman and finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he ever could imagine; THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE, the second gripping novel in Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series starring everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet; GOLDEN BOY, in which journalist John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert Jr., the handsome and charming New York socialite accused of murdering his father, a Manhattan millionaire and hedge fund founder; and SWAN DIVE, a page-turning, one-of-a-kind memoir from award-winning New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin (aka the Rogue Ballerina), who gives readers a backstage tour of the real world of elite ballet --- the gritty, hilarious, sometimes shocking truth you don’t see from the orchestra circle.

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Week of July 18, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 18th include THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER, James Patterson and Bill Clinton's highly anticipated second collaboration (following THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING), in which a madman abducts the teenage daughter of one-time Navy SEAL and past president Matthew Keating --- turning every parent’s deepest fear into a matter of national security; ONE STEP TOO FAR by Lisa Gardner, a chilling thriller about a young man gone missing in the wilderness of Wyoming…and the secrets uncovered by the desperate effort to find him; APPLES NEVER FALL, a scandalous, page-turning novel from Liane Moriarty that looks at marriage, siblings and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest; and QUICKSILVER, which finds Dean Koontz taking readers on a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past --- mile by frightening mile.

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Week of July 11, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 11th include GAME ON, the 28th installment in Janet Evanovich's wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton; THE PARTY CRASHER, Sophie Kinsella's humorous and heartwarming novel about family, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party you’ve ever snuck into; Liv Constantine's THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR, a diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past; BATTLE FOR THE BIG TOP by Les Standiford, the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus; and the paperback original THE EDGE OF SUMMER, a captivating summertime escape from Viola Shipman set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past.

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Week of July 4, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 4th include LIGHTNING STRIKE, a powerful prequel to William Kent Krueger's acclaimed Cork O’Connor series, which is about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo through youth and shape our lives forever; SILVERVIEW, the last completed novel by John le Carré, who turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past 60 years --- the secret world itself; COUNT THE WAYS by Joyce Maynard, a mesmerizing story of a family, from the hopeful early days of young marriage to parenthood, divorce and the costly aftermath that ripples through all their lives; and Hayley Mills' fascinating memoir, FOREVER YOUNG, in which the iconic actress shares personal memories from her storied childhood, growing up in a famous acting family and becoming a Disney child star, trying to grow up in a world that wanted her to stay forever young.

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July 5, 2022

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of July 4th and July 11th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks feature for July, which includes Indie Next, LibraryReads, the Barnes & Noble Book Club, Reese's Book Club, the "Read with Jenna" Today Show Book Club, the "Good Morning America" Book Club, and more.

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July 1, 2022

Because there is never a dull moment in our garden, we are now dealing with lantern flies, which currently are minutely sized, but are chowing down on the leaves of plants in a rather vicious way. And they are FAST! Thus I am waiting for praying mantis eggs...or, should I say, I am praying for praying mantis eggs. Our local garden center is getting these in, and they are scheduled to hatch in mid-July. These sly little creatures camouflage against the leaves and then gobble up lantern flies. I am getting ready to assemble my army of eggs for this battle. I will be discussing how many eggs I need and where to position them. I do not want to have the praying mantis tired as it seeks prey (you see what I did there, right?), so I am ready to get my battle plan in place.

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Alexis Schaitkin, author of Elsewhere

Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. It is the exquisite pain and intrinsic beauty of their lives; it sets them apart from people elsewhere and gives them meaning. Vera, a young girl when her own mother went, is on the cusp of adulthood herself. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear?

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Hilary Mantel, author of Learning to Talk: Stories

Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life stories by Hilary Mantel begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village “scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.” For the young narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In “King Billy Is a Gentleman,” the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. “Curved Is the Line of Beauty" is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In “Third Floor Rising," she watches, amazed, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.

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