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June 18, 2026

I feel like “immersed” is such a high-level word to use to describe my current reading situation. It's the kind of word that one would drop into conversation at a cocktail party and say it with a lot of drama.

It would be more accurate to say that I feel like I am on a treadmill racing as fast as I can to read for interviews and other coverage that we are working on. As time goes on, I know more and more authors whose latest work I want to read. There are also new writers who I want to explore.

Trust me, I know these are not life-altering decisions to make, but when you attend as many previews as we do and hear authors sharing commentary about their work, it is a good challenge to have to select what to read.

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June 17, 2026

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 Thursday, June 18th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LITTLE WONDER by Sophie Chen Keller, which is this month's Oprah's Book Club pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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June 16, 2026

This is one of those updates where there are sooooooo many titles for you to explore. I almost dare you to see if you cannot find a book that you want to consider for your next book group discussion!

PLUS we have the video and leave behinds for our semiannual Book Group Speed Dating program.

Read on and ENJOY! And we hope to see you at one of the upcoming events spotlighted below.

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June 16, 2026

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of June 15th and June 22nd 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 ReadingGroupGuides.com's 15th Annual Book Group Speed Dating event, which is now available for viewing. Last Friday, representatives from five publishers presented 31 titles perfect for book groups that will be published between now and November.

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June 16, 2026

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, June 17th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of NASTY LITTLE SECRETS by Gabbie Hanks, 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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Annabel Monaghan, author of Dolly All the Time

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was 12, and not at 39 when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home. So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield --- the annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family --- with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself. Can she really start now?

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Melanie Benjamin, author of The Windsor Affair

Feuding Windsor brothers and their wives --- some things, it seems, never change. Melanie Benjamin's latest work of historical fiction recreates the cataclysmic events that nearly toppled the monarchy and incited the power struggle between Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Wallis Simpson. Told from the perspectives of both women, the book propels readers into the fabulous world of the debonair Prince of Wales, café society of the 1930s, and the glittering private lives of the Windsors. The first novel to be dedicated to this infamous rivalry, THE WINDSOR AFFAIR brings us all the gossip and intrigue between the two very different --- yet perhaps more similar than they would admit --- wives of royals.

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Marie Benedict, author of A Pair of Aces

Eunice Carter, assistant district attorney for the City of New York and Manhattan’s first Black female prosecutor, has her sights set on Lucky Luciano, head of New York City’s five largest organized crime families. Other prosecutors have tried to bring down Lucky, but no one has thought to approach the mob through its role in prostitution. Until Eunice. But she can’t get Luciano alone. Polly Adler has worked long and hard to build up her high-class brothel business. But Lucky has gone too far, and Polly finally sees the chance to end his reign once and for all. Together, Eunice and Polly fashion a case utilizing a network of women. It is this very alliance --- of two women from vastly different worlds --- that launches the most sensational trial New York City has ever seen.

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Mary Kay Andrews, author of Road Trip

Maeve and Therese Dunigan haven’t spoken in years. Raised under the same roof in Savannah, the two sisters could not be more opposite --- Maeve the rule follower, Therese the unapologetic rebel. But when their mother’s death pulls them back together, they inherit more than just grief: a mysterious painting that may be worth millions…if it’s real. Determined to uncover the truth --- and desperately in need of the money --- the sisters set out on a journey to Ireland, tracing their family’s roots and the origins of the portrait. What begins as a search for answers soon becomes something deeper --- a reckoning with the past, as they uncover secrets that span generations and reshape everything they thought they knew about their family.

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Sophie Chen Keller, author of Little Wonder

Song is a nobody --- just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China --- but her son, River, is a little wonder. At the age of four, he toddled to a piano and tapped out his favorite song. At eight, he mastered Liszt's three Liebestraume. At 10, he blazed through the complete set of Chopin's études. And at every step, Song is there to light his way --- until finally, at the age of 11, River is invited to study with a preeminent teacher in Beijing. But in the chaos of Beijing Railway Station, Song faces every mother's nightmare. She loses her grip on River’s little hand and is unable to find him after a desperate, harrowing search. Over the next days, weeks and, eventually, years, Song and River fight to forge a path back to each other as they carve out new lives that carry them farther apart.

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