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July 8, 2025

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Wednesday, July 9th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of FAST BOYS AND PRETTY GIRLS by Lo Patrick, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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Week of July 28, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of July 28th include THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE by James McBride, a novel as compassionate as DEACON KING KONG and as inventive as THE GOOD LORD BIRD, which revolves around small-town secrets and the people who keep them; BAD LIAR, a riveting, emotionally powerful thriller that marks the long-awaited return of Tami Hoag, in which old jealousies and fresh deceits, family loyalties gone wrong and love turned sour all lay a twisting trail that leads deep into the Louisiana swamp, endangering all who follow that path; THE HORSE, a poignant novel from Willy Vlautin that captures the life of a journeyman musician who is unable to escape the tragedies of his past; and A HUNGER TO KILL, a fascinating and profoundly chilling account of how Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, closed in on --- and broke --- one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers.

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Week of July 21, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of July 21st include IDENTITY UNKNOWN, the 28th installment in Patricia Cornwell's intriguing series starring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, who is devastated to learn that the body found at an abandoned theme park is a man she once had an intense love affair with; LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER, Kimberly McCreight's thrilling novel of emotional suspense in which a daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance; DIDION & BABITZ by Lili Anolik, an outrageously provocative dual biography that reveals the mutual attractions --- and antagonisms --- of Joan Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz; and THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE, a mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville that is inspired by the world of the BRZRKR comic books and is unlike anything these two genre-bending pioneers have created before.

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Week of July 14, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of July 14th include T. Kingfisher's A SORCERESS COMES TO CALL, a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder and forbidden magic; COLORED TELEVISION, a brilliant dark comedy from Danzy Senna about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex; THE CORE OF AN ONION by Mark Kurlansky, a delectable look at the cultural, historical and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples --- featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world; Hyeseung Song's DOCILE, a searing coming-of-age memoir about the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth; and the paperback original EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU by Jo Piazza,   an explosive thriller about two estranged friends, a grisly murder, a sudden disappearance, and the truly shocking revelation that everyone is lying to you about something.  

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Week of July 7, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of July 7th include THE BRIAR CLUB by Kate Quinn, a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C., boardinghouse during the McCarthy era; THE BRIGHT SWORD, Lev Grossman's triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium; THE DAYS I LOVED YOU MOST, a heart-wrenching, life-affirming novel from Amy Neff that asks: How much would you sacrifice for the one you love?; David Ellis' THE BEST LIES, a fast-paced, unpredictable thriller featuring a crusading attorney with unthinkable skeletons in his closet who is also a diagnosed pathological liar; and the paperback original FAST BOYS AND PRETTY GIRLS by Lo Patrick, a gritty, coming-of-age, slow-burn Southern mystery with devastating characters and a twist that will leave you aching --- exposing the all-consuming, obsessive power of first love and what it can do to a person.

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Week of June 30, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of June 30th include SPIRIT CROSSING, the 20th book in William Kent Krueger's one-of-a-kind series, in which a disappearance and a dead body put Cork O'Connor's family in the crosshairs of a killer; ERUPTION, the passion project that Michael Crichton had been pursuing for years ahead of his untimely passing in 2008, but now has been expertly revived by James Patterson; Chris Whitaker's ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, a soaring thriller and an epic love story about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope; HERE ONE MOMENT by Liane Moriarty, an intricately plotted novel that brilliantly looks at friends, lovers and family, and how we manage to hold on to them in our harried modern lives; and COME AND GET IT, a thought-provoking work of fiction from Kiley Reid that explores the choices we make, particularly for the things that can and cannot be paid for.

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July 2025

July's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "Ballard" on Prime Video, "Dexter: Resurrection" on Paramount+ with Showtime, "The Institute" on MGM+, "Washington Black" on Hulu, and "The Hunting Wives" on Netflix; the season premieres of Apple TV+'s "Foundation" and Prime Video's "The Summer I Turned Pretty"; the season finales of "Nine Perfect Strangers" on Hulu and "Sullivan's Crossing" on The CW; the films Jurassic World Rebirth, Superman, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Abraham’s Boys: A Dracula Story; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of Juliet & Romeo, The Amateur and The Actor.

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July 1, 2025

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of June 30th and July 7th 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 New Release Spotlight of GLASS GIRLS by debut novelist Danie Shokoohi, along with our review. In this tautly paced and gorgeously written book, a former child medium is forced to face her deadly past and the ghosts she left behind.

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Fiona Davis Book Group Event

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Rob Franklin, author of Great Black Hope

An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil as he is pulled into the court system and mandated treatment. It’s just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate, Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he’s still reeling from the tabloid spectacle --- as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America. But when Smith returns to New York, it’s not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life --- drawn back into the city’s underworld, where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future.

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