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Summer Reading 2025

Summer is here! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature.

We are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through mid-August, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win. We also are sending a special newsletter to announce the day's title, which you can sign up for here.

Week of June 2, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of June 2nd include SOUTHERN MANthe epic seventh installment in Greg Iles' Penn Cage series, which centers on a man --- and a town --- rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but unbowed in the fight to save those they love; SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews, a beach read with depth and heart that revolves around the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper; LARRY McMURTRY, Tracy Daugherty's sweeping and insightful biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter; Shelley Read's GO AS A RIVER, the heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter; and BAD TOURISTS by Caro Carver, a white-hot thriller in which three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives --- until they realize that the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.