A Month of Great Reading | June Starred Reviews

Wonderful books to explore as summer sets in, across fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Gardner, Lisa. Kiss Her Goodbye. Grand Central.

Givhan, Jennifer. Salt Bones. Mulholland.

Jackson-Opoku, Sandra. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.

Pan, Joe. Florida Palms. S. & S.

Rosenblum, Emma. Mean Moms. Flatiron.

Ryan, Hank Phillippi. All This Could Be Yours. Minotaur: St. Martin’s.

Wallbrook, Zoe B. History Lessons. Soho.

SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY

Cahill, Martin. Audition for the Fox. Tachyon.

Darling, Olivia Rose. Wrath of the Dragons. Delacorte.

Kova, Elise. Arcana Academy. Del Rey: Ballantine.

Kuang, R.F. Katabasis (Deluxe Limited Edition). Harper Voyager.

Newitz, Annalee. Automatic Noodle. Tor.com.

Rapier, Maggie. Soulgazer. Ace: Berkley.

Rodriguez, Jaclyn. A Vow in Vengeance. Slowburn: Zando.

Ross, Rebecca. Wild Reverence. Saturday.

Steven, L.K. Silvercloak. Del Rey: Ballantine.

Szamalek, Jakub. Inner Space. HarperVia.

HORROR

The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. Gallery.

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. The Bewitching. Del Rey: Ballantine.

Piper, Hailey. A Game in Yellow. S. & S./Saga.

ROMANCE

De la Rosa, Liana. Gabriela and His Grace. Berkley.

Fairbanks, Ivy. Heart Strings. Putnam.

Gonzalez, Nadine. Only Lovers in the Building. Canary Street.

Kahn, Turner Gable. The Dirty Version. Harper Perennial.

West, Kasie. We Met Like This. Saturday.

FICTION

Awad, Mona. We Love You, Bunny. S. & S./Marysue Rucci.

Clayton, Meg Waite. Typewriter Beach. Harper.

Jen, Gish. Bad Bad Girl. Knopf.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Vintage.

Morrison, Toni. Song of Solomon. Vintage.

Mott, Jason. People Like Us. Dutton.

Prophète, Emmelie. Cécé. Archipelago.

Ream, Ashley. The Peculiar Gift of July. Dutton.

Reyes Jr., Ruben. Archive of Unknown Universes. Mariner.

Richman, Alyson. The Missing Pages. Union Square & Co.

Weiss, Thea. The Second Chance Cinema. Atria.

Yates, Christopher J. The Rabbit Club. Hanover Square: Harlequin.

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Brubaker, Ed (text) & Sean Phillips (illus.). The Knives: A Criminal Book. Image Comics.

Lemire, Jeff. 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir. Dark Horse.

Sacco, Joe. The Once and Future Riot. Metropolitan.

Takei, George & others. It Rhymes With Takei. Top Shelf.

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Anishanslin, Zara. The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution. Harvard Univ.

Dawes, Kwame & Chris Abani. Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series. Akashic.

Duchovny, David. About Time: Poems. Akashic.

Giovanni, Nikki. The New Book: Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things. Morrow.

Harrington, Jane. Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance: The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun. Black Dog & Leventhal.

Kurshan, Ilana. Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together. St. Martin’s.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Ellsworth, Scott. Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. Dutton.

Johnson, Tre. Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy. Dutton.

Lepore, Jill. We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution. Liveright: Norton.

Potter, Madeline. The Roma: A Traveling History. Harper.

Richtel, Matt. How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence. Mariner.

Ridge, Brent & Josh Kilmer-Purcell. G.O.A.T. Wisdom: How To Build a Truly Great Business, from the Founders of Beekman 1802. Harvard Business Review.

Strauss, Barry. Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World’s Mightiest Empire. S. & S.

Taraborrelli, J. Randy. JFK: Public, Private, Secret. St. Martin’s.

Watson, Jamal. The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency. Broadleaf.

SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY

McKenney, Sally. Sally’s Baking 101: Foolproof Recipes from Easy to Advanced. Clarkson Potter.

Orlando, Ludovic. Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World. Princeton Univ.

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