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Which of the following fiction titles releasing in July have you read or do you plan to read? Please check all that apply.

July 11, 2025, 693 voters

July 11, 2025 - July 25, 2025

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of July 11 - July 25.

July 11, 2025

It was great to have a four-day weekend with nothing on the agenda except time for reading.

I started by finishing Lisa Scottoline's THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA, which is a page-turner and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Julia, the protagonist, heads to the Italian countryside to learn more about a piece of property that has been left to her. Lisa’s descriptions of the landscape, food and culture of Italy will have you feeling like you are doing armchair travel. To enhance the experience even more, Lisa has a fabulous video series on her website where she shares the locations and flavors of Italy. She also is profiled in the “By the Book” section of the New York Times this week. You can read that piece here. Our review is scheduled to run next week, and I am hoping to see Lisa in Doylestown, PA on Tuesday night.

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Interview: Gregory Galloway, author of All We Trust

Jul 10, 2025

ALL WE TRUST by Gregory Galloway is a twisty tale about two small-town crooks who get in over their heads. In this interview conducted by Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, Galloway talks about his writing process, the research he did for the book, the 20th-century crime novelists he feels have been overlooked the most and deserve to be rediscovered, and the most significant changes that have taken place in the publishing industry since his debut novel, AS SIMPLE AS SNOW, released 20 years ago.

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July 9, 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 Thursday, July 10th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of FINDING GRACE by Loretta Rothschild, 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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July 8, 2025

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of July 7th and July 14th 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, the "Good Morning America" Book Club, Oprah's Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the "Read with Jenna" Book Club, Reese's Book Club, and the Target Book Club.

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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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