All the July 2025 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Fiction

Pop Fiction

Cleeton, Chanel. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593816905. pbk. 352p. $19. FICTION

Cleeton, whose Next Year in Havana was a Reese’s Book Club pick, centers her newest novel on the deadly quest to find a 120-year-old tome that has touched the lives of two distant women—a librarian living in Havana in 1966 and a Cuban teacher who travels to Harvard in 1900.

King, Allison. The Phoenix Pencil Company. Morrow. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063446236. 368p. $28.99. FICTION

King, a 2023 recipient of the Reese’s LitUp Fellowship, earns a 150K-copy first printing for her debut, which details the history of a family who have the magical ability to reforge a pencil’s words, capturing what they once wrote.

Lindo-Rice, Michelle. A Summer for the Books. MIRA. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780778334392. pbk. 336p. $18.99. FICTION

Award-winning and bestselling Lindo-Rice (The Bookshop Sisterhood) pens a dual-timeline story about two friends, one an author, the other a bookstore owner, who are torn apart and then come back together when an accident changes everything.

MacLean, Sarah. These Summer Storms. Ballantine. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593972250. 400p. $30. FICTION

Bestselling MacLean, whose historical romance Heartbreaker was an LJ Best Book, turns to contemporary fiction with this family saga set on a private island, where a huge inheritance can only be earned by playing a dead man’s game.

Smith, Alexander McCall. The Winds from Further West. Pantheon. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780385551410. 256p. $27. FICTION

Bestselling McCall Smith (“No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series) offers a new stand-alone. Dr. Neil Anderson leaves his life behind when accused of making insensitive comments at work. He moves to the Isle of Mull, where two wolf cubs change his life again.

Strenner, Emma Nanami. My Other Heart. Viking: Pamela Dorman. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593831014. 416p. $30. FICTION

Journalist Strenner’s debut was bought in a preempt as a lead title in the UK and Canada. It traces the lives of three women: two best friends on the verge of discovering who they are and a mother whose daughter vanished 17 years ago.

Trigiani, Adriana. The View from Lake Como. Dutton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593183359. 416p. $29. FICTION

Bestselling Trigiani (The Good Left Undone) returns to contemporary fiction with this story of an overlooked daughter who finds herself in her family’s ancestral home, meeting her future and learning about her past.

White, Karen. That Last Carolina Summer. Park Row. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780778310693. 384p. $30. FICTION

Bestselling White (“A Royal Street Novel” series) offers a stand-alone set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Phoebe Manigault developed premonition as a child, plagued by visions and dreams. As an adult, what she sees intensifies and helps uncover both her past and future.

Literary Fiction

Adam, Claire. Love Forms. Hogarth. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593230923. 288p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Adam follows her award-winning debut, Golden Child, with a novel about a woman who decides to go in search of the daughter she placed for adoption as a teenager in Trinidad 40 years ago.

Clune, Michael. Pan. Penguin Pr. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593834428. 336p. $29. LITERARY FICTION

Clune (humanities, Case Western Reserve; White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin) makes his fiction debut with a coming-of-age story about a teenager who experiences panic attacks.

Guerrero, Natalie. My Train Leaves at Three. One World. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593977330. 256p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Grieving her sister’s death and struggling to make ends meet, Xiomara still pursues her Broadway dreams. A debut to note from Guerrero, coauthor of Walking in My Joy with actress Jenifer Lewis.

Hwang, J. B. Mendell Station. Bloomsbury. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781639736188. 208p. $26.99. LITERARY FICTION

In 2020, as the COVID pandemic descends, Miriam works through her grief and loss of faith while starting a job at the postal service in this debut from Hwang.

Machida, Sonoko. The Convenience Store by the Sea. tr. from Japanese by Bruno Navasky. Putnam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9798217045433. 304p. $29. LITERARY FICTION

Award-winning Machida’s international bestseller about the employees and customers of a small-town convenience store in Japan makes its English-language debut.

Osunde, Eloghosa. Necessary Fiction. Riverhead. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593851203. 320p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Award-winning Osunde’s sophomore novel (after Vagabonds!, a New Yorker Best Book) returns to Lagos, Nigeria, in a story that explores queer lives and asks what makes a family.

Park, Ed. An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories. Random. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780812998993. 224p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Park offers a collection of previously published stories, plus four new ones, as a follow-up to his Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed Different Dreams.

Reyes Jr., Ruben. Archive of Unknown Universes. Mariner. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063336315. 288p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

A debut novel following two families in alternative timelines during the Salvadoran civil war, from the author of the acclaimed story collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Shteyngart, Gary. Vera, or Faith. Random. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593595091. 256p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Bestselling Shteyngart (Our Country Friends) returns with a novel about a modern family that’s falling apart, told through the eyes of 10-year-old daughter Vera.

Thomas-Kennedy, Jackie. The Other Wife. Riverhead. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593851609. 304p. $29. LITERARY FICTION

A Stegner fellow and author of prize-winning short stories, Thomas-Kennedy makes her novel debut with this story about Zuzu, who begins to question her life choices as she approaches middle age.

Wambugu, Stephanie. Lonely Crowds. Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316581332. 304p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

In this debut novel from Wambugu, an editor at Joyland Magazine, two friends come of age together and chase their ambitions in the early ’90s art world of New York City.

Yee, Katie. Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar. Summit. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668084212. 208p. $26.99. LITERARY FICTION

A woman embarks on a journey of grief and healing after realizing her husband is having an affair and finding out she has cancer, managing to spin tragedy into a form of defiant comedy, in this debut from Yee.

Mystery

Bryant, Elise. The Game Is Afoot. (Mavis Miller, bk. 2). Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593640807. pbk. 368p. $19. MYSTERY

Bryant follows her adult mystery debut, It’s Elementary, with a new case for Mavis Miller. This time it’s the death of Coach Cole that has Mavis moving off the side lines and into investigation mode, all while being supermom to daughter Pearl.

Gardiner, Kelly & Sharmini Kumar. Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Investigator. HarperVia. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063422599. pbk. 368p. $17.99. MYSTERY

Gardiner and Kumar pen a Regency mystery set in the world of Jane Austen. Pride & Prejudice’s Caroline Bingley finds her calling as a detective as she takes up the case of Georgiana Darcy’s missing maid, who is lost in the gritty underbelly of London.

Griffiths, Elly. The Frozen People. (Ali Dawson, bk. 1). Viking: Pamela Dorman. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593834374. 304p. $30. MYSTERY

Bestselling and award-winning Griffiths begins a new series starring Ali Dawson, head of a cold case crimes team with a unique leg up—they can travel back in time. Ali heads to 1850 to solve a case but finds her son in danger in the present.

Healy, Anna Fitzgerald. Etiquette for Lovers and Killers. Putnam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593719633. 304p. $29. MYSTERY

This feel-good romystery and historical blend, set in Maine in the 1960s, marks Healy’s debut. It follows the deeply bored Billie McCadie, whose life is about to become much more exciting as she gets involved in a murder.

Jackson-Opoku, Sandra. Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes. Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250351906. 336p. $28. MYSTERY

Jackson-Opoku, whose 1997 novel The River Where Blood Is Born won ALA’s Black Caucus Award, makes her mystery debut with this cozy culinary featuring Savvy Summers, owner of Essie’s soul food café. When a patron dies at a table, Savvy must save her business by finding a murderer.

Mullet, Melinda. A Ghostwriter’s Guide to Murder. Crooked Lane. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9798892421423. 320p. $29.99. MYSTERY

Mullet’s (“Whisky Business Mysteries”) newest features mystery ghostwriter Maeve, who is happy living on her houseboat in London, imagining perfect cases, until a real case, the death of her ex-boyfriend, has the police thinking she is a murderer.

Nash, Bruce. All the Words We Know. Atria. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668053607. 240p. $26.99. MYSTERY

Nash makes his U.S. debut with this cozy featuring eightysomething Rose, who has dementia and alternates between sharp focus and forgetfulness as she walks the halls of her assisted-living facility. When a friend is found dead, Rose takes on the case.

Pavesi, Alex. Ink Ribbon Red. Holt. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250755957. 320p. $28.99. MYSTERY

Pavesi, whose debut, The Eighth Detective, was nominated for a slew of awards and was an NYT top thriller of 2020, returns with an amateur sleuth mystery in which a game of murder, held during a birthday celebration in the Wiltshire countryside, becomes dangerous.

Pitts, Delia. Death of an Ex. (Vandy Myrick, bk. 2). Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250904249. 320p. $28. MYSTERY

Pitts (“Ross Agency Mysteries”) follows up the first in her new Vandy Myrick series, Trouble in Queenstown, with this new installment that sees Vandy trying to figure out who murdered her ex-husband.

Quinn, Spencer. Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue. (Mrs. Plansky, bk. 2). Forge. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250331830. 304p. $28.99. MYSTERY

Quinn, pen name of Edgar-winning Peter Abrahams, offers the second in the “Mrs. Plansky” series. Thrilled with winning the senior doubles tennis championship with Kev, Mrs. Plansky’s euphoria is short lived as first her doubles partner and then her son go missing.

Tully, Liza. The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant. (Tula Walberg, bk. 1). Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593816776. 400p. $30. MYSTERY

Tully, pseudonym for Elisabeth Brink, who also writes as Elisabeth Elo and Elisabeth Panttaja Brink, pens a feel-good mystery starring an assistant detective who wants to step into the spotlight. When her demanding mentor passes on a case, Olivia dives in, uncovering far more than expected.

Wallbrook, Zoe B. History Lessons. (Daphne Ouverture, bk. 1). Soho Crime. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781641295529. 300p. $25.95. MYSTERY

Wallbrook debuts with a campus mystery. The series opener stars history professor Daphne Ouverture, who must figure out her connection to a murdered colleague, before the killer gets too close. Good thing there is an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller to help.

Ward, Hazell. The Game Is Murder. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593952443. 480p. $30. MYSTERY

Ward debuts with a case that blends a meta murder mystery with the trendy murder game theme. Bought in a preempt, it asks the reader to play detective. Ward was shortlisted for the Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition and won a CWA Short Story Dagger.

Wilkins, Carolyn Marie. Murder at the Wham Bam Club. Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496754714. 288p. $27. MYSTERY

Wilkins, psychic and author of the “Carrie McFarland Psychic” books, starts a new series with this historical set in the roaring ’20s, featuring a psychic who uses her talents to help when a woman, supposedly engaged to a notorious pimp, is suspected of his murder.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Bennett, Michael. Carved in Blood. (Hana Westerman, bk. 3). Atlantic Monthly. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780802164544. 384p. $27. MYSTERY

Billingham, Mark. What the Night Brings. (Tom Thorne, bk. 19). Atlantic Monthly. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780802164582. 432p. $27. MYSTERY

Castillo, Linda. Rage. (Kate Burkholder, bk. 17). Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250781147. 320p. $28. MYSTERY

Davis, Lindsey. There Will Be Bodies. (Flavia Albia, bk. 13). Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250906731. 352p. $30. MYSTERY

Delany, Vicki. Tea with Jam & Dread. (Tea by the Sea Mysteries, bk. 6). Kensington Cozies. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496747303. 304p. $27. MYSTERY

Fletcher, Jessica & Terrie Farley Moran. Murder, She Wrote: A Body in Boston. (Murder She Wrote, bk. 61). Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593820193. tr. pbk. 272p. $19. MYSTERY

Gilbert, Victoria. Death and the Librarian. (Blue Ridge Library Mystery, bk. 9). Crooked Lane. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9798892420464. 320p. $29.99. MYSTERY

Grimes, Martha. The Red Queen. (Richard Jury, bk. 26). Atlantic Monthly. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780802164940. 256p. $28. MYSTERY

James, Miranda. Something Whiskered. (Cat in the Stacks Mystery, bk. 17). Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593199558. 304p. $29. MYSTERY

Nagendra, Harini. Into the Leopard’s Den. (Bangalore Detectives Club, bk. 4). Pegasus. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781639368976. 352p. $27.95. MYSTERY

Rosenfelt, David. Dogged Pursuit. (Andy Carpenter, bk. 31). Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250324511. 288p. $28. MYSTERY

Trinchieri, Camilla. Murder in Pitigliano. (A Tuscan Mystery, bk. 5). Soho Crime. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781641296953. 368p. $29.95. MYSTERY

Thrillers

Berry, Steve. The List. Grand Central. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538770870. 384p. $29. THRILLER

Bestselling author and former lawyer Berry (Cotton Malone series) pivots from thrillers with a historical bent to this standalone legal thriller that finds attorney Brent Walker returning to his small Georgia hometown, where he unravels a corporate corruption scheme. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Cox, Kelsey. Party of Liars. Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250378811. 336p. $28. THRILLER

In a Texas Hill Country gothic mansion, Sophie Matthews’s Sweet 16 birthday party goes horribly wrong when a body falls from the balcony—while a killer roams the halls. Cox debuts with a locked-room thriller that receives a 150K-copy first printing.

Day, Jamie. The Lake Escape. St. Martin’s. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250358196. 368p. $29. THRILLER

Day (One Big Happy Family) writes another summery suspense novel. A family embarks on their annual summer getaway to Lake Timmeny in Vermont. When one of them vanishes, secrets emerge as they search for the missing woman. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Donlea, Charlie. Guess Again. Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496753960. 304p. $30. THRILLER

Ten years ago, 17-year-old Callie disappeared from her small Wisconsin town. Former detective Ethan Hall is convinced to take on the cold case and is drawn into a twisted psychological game in the latest from bestselling Donlea (Long Time Gone).

Fesperman, Dan. Pariah. Knopf. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593802236. 368p. $29. THRILLER

In this spy thriller from award-winning Fesperman (Winter Work), comedian-turned-politician Hal Knight slinks away from the limelight after a disastrous #MeToo moment and finds himself recruited by the CIA to infiltrate an Eastern European country to spy on its brutal dictator.

Jackson, Holly. Not Quite Dead Yet. Bantam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593977057. 400p. $28. THRILLER

Bestselling YA author Jackson (“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series, adapted by Netflix) makes her adult debut. After 27-year-old Margaret “Jet” Mason is attacked and left for dead, she decides to spend her remaining few days of life hunting down her would-be murderer.

Lapena, Shari. She Didn’t See It Coming. Viking: Pamela Dorman. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593832448. 336p. $30. THRILLER

In bestselling Lapena’s (What Have You Done?) latest, Bryden mysteriously goes missing from the luxurious condo she shares with her husband and daughter, and it soon becomes clear that the building is full of neighbors who might be up to no good.

Maxwell, Jessa. Dead of Summer. Atria. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668070390. 288p. $27.99. THRILLER

Orla O’Connor returns home to the isolated New England enclave of Hadley Island, where her best friend Alice disappeared a decade ago, only to be pulled into a new mystery when there’s another disappearance on the island. From bestselling Maxwell (I Need You To Read This).

Michallon, Clémence. Our Last Resort. Knopf. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593802762. 320p. $29. THRILLER

Michallon follows her bestselling debut, The Quiet Tenant, a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year, with this sophomore novel about estranged siblings who reunite at a luxury resort in the Utah desert, but a murder there reveals their shocking secrets.

Miranda, Megan. You Belong Here. Scribner: Marysue Rucci. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668080979. 352p. $28.99. THRILLER

Bestselling Miranda (The Last House Guest, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick) offers a twisty new thriller where the secret that drove a mother from her hometown now threatens her daughter.

Pote, Ryan. Blood and Treasure. (Ethan Cain, bk. 1). Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593953167. 368p. $30. THRILLER

Pote, a former Navy helicopter pilot and rescue pilot for NASA, debuts with a series launch featuring Ethan Cain, a former special-ops pilot and current treasure hunter who witnesses a space capsule crashing into the sea after a massacre on the International Space Station—and goes to investigate.

Rosenblum, Emma. Mean Moms. Flatiron. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250364203. 304p. $28.99. THRILLER

Bustle COO and bestselling author Rosenblum (Very Bad Company) returns with a story of three wealthy Manhattan private school moms whose lives are upended after a new woman, a mom from Miami, joins their clique. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Scottoline, Lisa. The Unraveling of Julia. Grand Central. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538769997. 400p. $30. THRILLER

Bestselling and Edgar Award–winning Scottoline (The Truth About the Devlins) pens a psychological thriller about a widow who unexpectedly inherits a mysterious estate in Tuscany, where she searches for answers about her family even as strange things occur. With a 280K-copy first printing.

Silva, Daniel. Untitled Silva Novel 2025. Harper. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063384217. 480p. $32. THRILLER

No details on what the latest novel from blockbuster bestseller Silva (A Death in Cornwall) will be about, other than that it will receive a 500K-copy first printing; it’s likely to be the 25th Gabriel Allon spy thriller.

Ware, Ruth. The Woman in Suite 11. Scout. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668025628. 416p. $29.99. THRILLER

Ware returns with a sequel to the bestselling The Woman in Cabin 10 (being adapted for film by Netflix, with Keira Knightley slated to star). It is set a decade later as travel journalist Lo Blacklock attends the opening of a luxury hotel in Switzerland and finds danger.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Abrams, Stacey. Coded Justice. (Avery Keene, bk. 3). Doubleday. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780385548342. 384p. $28. THRILLER

Borgos, Bruce. The Blue Horse. (Porter Beck, bk. 3). Minotaur. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250373908. 368p. $29. THRILLER

Cameron, Marc. Dead Line. (Arliss Cutter, bk. 7). Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496752703. 464p. $30. THRILLER

Freeman, Brian. Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Escape. (Jason Bourne, bk. 21). Putnam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9798217046188. 384p. $32. THRILLER

Patterson, James & Mike Lupica. The Hamptons Lawyer. (Jane Smith, bk. 3). Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316569934. 400p. $30. THRILLER

Patterson, James & Richard DiLallo. The President’s Shadow. (Shadow, bk. 3). Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538721957. 400p. $31. THRILLER

Thor, Brad. Edge of Honor. (Scot Harvath, bk. 24). Atria/Emily Bestler. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781982182274. 320p. $29.99. THRILLER

Romantasy

Cassidy, Kalie. In the Veins of the Drowning. (The Siren Mage, bk. 1). Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316587600. pbk. 384p. $19.99. ROMANTASY

Cassidy debuts with a series starter featuring a siren in hiding and a king who sees what she is. Forming a blood bond, they fight to defend their people, struggling all the while with the growing attraction between them.

Darling, Olivia Rose. Wrath of the Dragons. (Fear the Flames, bk. 2). Delacorte. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593873922. 336p. $30. ROMANTASY

Bestselling Darling offers a sequel to Fear the Flames. Cayden Veles, the demon commander of Vareveth, and Elowen Atarah, who’s in line for the Imirath throne, have conquered, but they must once again stand together to defend kingdoms and crowns.

Durst, Sarah Beth. The Enchanted Greenhouse. Bramble. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250333988. 384p. $29.99. ROMANTASY

Bestselling and award-winning Durst (The Spellshop) gets a 250K-copy first printing for this cozy about a librarian with magic, a sentient rose, and a grumpy gardener who work to unravel magical secrets and save a wonderous island of greenhouses.

Knightley, Brigitte. The Irresistible Urge To Fall for Your Enemy. (Dearly Beloathed Duology, bk. 1). Ace. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593819456. 384p. $30. ROMANTASY

Knightley’s debut, after her popular fanfic writing on AO3, focuses on “Dramione” (Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy)–coded characters in a planned duology starring an assassin and a healer who join forces to solve a deadly outbreak, while tumbling into a slow-burn romance.

Kova, Elise. Arcana Academy. (Arcana Academy, bk. 1). Del Rey. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593726341. 576p. $32.99. ROMANTASY

Bestselling Kova, who writes both YA (Dragon Cursed) and adult (A Dawn with the Wolf Knight), makes her trade publishing debut with this enemies-to-lovers story featuring a woman who wields magical tarot cards and the headmaster of a mysterious academy.

Lambert, Jennifer K. Never the Roses. Bramble. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250360342. 368p. $32.99. ROMANTASY

Lambert, who also writes award-winning bestsellers under the name Jeffe Kennedy, gets a 300K-copy first printing for this romantasy about a sorceress, her magical companions, a stolen book, and a correspondence with a rival sorcerer.

McEwan, Stacey. A Forbidden Alchemy. Saga. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668076187. 480p. $29.99. ROMANTASY

Bestselling McEwan (“Glacian Trilogy”) offers a slow-burn romantasy about Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson, who are caught up in a world of magic, rebellion, secrets, and choices. When they end up on opposite sides of a war, their choices become impossible.

Qureshi, A. T. The Baby Dragon Cafe. (Baby Dragon, bk. 1). Avon. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780008727666. pbk. 320p. $18.99. ROMANTASY

Qureshi (The Lady or the Lion) moves from YA to adult cozy romantasy and gets a 100K-copy first printing for this story about a baby-dragon café, the shop’s owner, and a heartthrob gardener who needs help.

Rapier, Maggie. Soulgazer. Ace. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593819272. pbk. 480p. $19. ROMANTASY

Rapier’s debut was bought in a preempt ahead of a four-way auction. The slow-burn, marriage-of-convenience romance (part of a planned duology) also features a quest to find a mythical isle, plus the story of a pirate and a woman cursed with powerful magic.

Soto, Julie. Rose in Chains. (Evermore Trilogy, bk. 1). Forever. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538771228. 464p. $32. ROMANTASY

TikTok-famous for the fanfic The Auction, Soto (author of the LibraryReads pick Not Another Love Song) gets a 165K-copy first printing for this steamy romantasy featuring a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers plot.

St. Clair, Scarlett. Terror at the Gates. (Blood of Lilith, bk. 1). Bloom. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781464239656. 450p. $30.99. ROMANTASY

Bestselling St. Clair (“Hades x Persephone” series) begins a new series featuring a friends-to-lovers trope, set in a dark fantasy world where Lilith Leviathan uses her magic in ways that upset the ruling powers and turns to the leader of a kingdom to save her.

Steven, L. K. Silvercloak. (The Silvercloak Saga, bk. 1). Del Rey. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593973998. 464p. $32.99. ROMANTASY

An author of YA novels (including Our Infinite Fates, written under the name Laura Steven) makes her adult debut with this trilogy starter. Saffron Killoran goes undercover in the magical mafia, hoping to avenge the murder of her parents. With her life on the line, she meets the son of one of her enemies.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Bado, Chinaza. Birth of a Dynasty. Harper Voyager. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063397606. 384p. $30. FANTASY

Bado (who writes romance novels, including the DuBells series, as J.J. McAvoy) launches the first in an epic fantasy trilogy full of political intrigue and magic and inspired by African myths, geography, and culture. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Dawson, J. R. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World. Tor. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250805584. 336p. $28.99. FANTASY

Dawson (The First Bright Thing) pens a queer fantasy about a waystation for the dead, where they reckon with their lives before they board a boat to the beyond—until something goes wrong and a living person finds her way onto the ferry. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Haddon, Seth. Volatile Memory. Tor.com. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250364685. 176p. $21.99. SCIENCE FICTION

Haddon (“World of Reforged” series) offers a sapphic sci-fi novella. Wylla sets out in search of answers after traveling to a nearby planet in search of lucrative tech and finding an AI mask that has retained a woman’s memories. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Rodrigo, Rosália. Beasts of Carnaval. MIRA. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780778387237. 400p. $28.99. FANTASY

Rodrigo debuts with this historical fantasy featuring a Puerto Rico-inspired setting and Taíno history and mythology. Recently freed from enslavement, Sofía searches for her missing brother at the Carnaval of Beasts while trying to resist the thrall of the legendary Isla Bestia. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Ryan, Morgan. A Resistance of Witches. Viking. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593831960. 416p. $30. FANTASY

In this buzzy debut bought at auction, Ryan blends historical fiction and fantasy to tell the story of a witch during World War II who tracks down magical relics before the Nazis can get them.

Tsai, Mia. The Memory Hunters. Erewhon. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781645662082. 448p. $28. FANTASY

Kiana, a memory diver and researcher, unearths an ancient secret and searches for answers with help from her bodyguard. Tsai (Bitter Medicine) writes an action-packed science-fantasy novel featuring a sapphic romance and ecological and anticolonial themes.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Dawson, Juno. Human Rites. (The HMRC Trilogy, bk. 3). Penguin Bks. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780143137160. pbk. 464p. $19. FANTASY

Harris, Charlaine. The Last Wizards’ Ball. (Gunnie Rose, bk. 6). Saga. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668038123. 272p. $27.99. FANTASY

Lafferty, Mur. Infinite Archive. (The Midsolar Murders, bk. 3). Ace. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593098158. pbk. 352p. $19. SCIENCE FICTION

Utomi, Moses Ose. The Memory of the Ogisi. (The Forever Desert, bk. 3). Tor.com. Jul. 2025. ISBN9781250849045. 128p. $24.99. FANTASY

Vee, Julia & Ken Bebelle. Pearl City. (The Phoenix Hoard, bk. 3). Tor. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250837967. 400p. $29.99. FANTASY

Whitten, Hannah. The Nightshade God. (The Nightshade Crown, bk. 3). Orbit. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316435598. 480p. $30. FANTASY

Historical Fiction

Batsha, Nishant. A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart. Ecco. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063303607. 304p. $27.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

Batsha, author of the Lambda Literary Award finalist Mother Ocean Father Nation, sets his newest at the dawn of World War I, as a couple fall into a passionate romance and a story spins out about the repercussions of a hasty marriage, questions of freedom, choices, and secrets.

Clayton, Meg Waite. Typewriter Beach. Harper. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063422148. 320p. $30. HISTORICAL FICTION

Clayton, author of the GMA pick The Postmistress of Paris, sets her newest in 2018 Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, where a screenwriter finds out secrets about her family, and in 1950s Hollywood, where an actress hopes to become Alfred Hitchcock’s newest star.

Escobar, Mario. A Bookseller in Madrid. Harper Muse. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781400347445. pbk. 352p. $18.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

Bestselling Escobar (The Forgotten Names) tells the story of a bookseller who flees to Madrid when the Nazis rise to power, creating a space for those who want to transform the world. But Spain is not as safe as she hopes, and it is unclear who can be trusted.

Foster, Brooke Lea. Our Last Vineyard Summer. Gallery. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668034408. 336p. $28.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

Across two timelines, 1965 and 1978, Foster (All the Summers in Between) tells the story of a grad student who returns to her family’s summer home on Martha’s Vineyard and discovers family secrets, strained relationships, family debts, and a bit more about herself.

Giannone, Francesca. The Letter Carrier. tr. from Italian by Elettra Pauletto. Crown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593800898. 416p. $28. HISTORICAL FICTION

Giannone’s debut was a sensation in Italy. It tells the story of a young wife and mother who fights to bring modernity to a traditional small town in Southern Italy in 1934 as she takes on the job of postwoman, delivering letters and becoming the thread that connects her community.

James, Sarah. Last Stop Union Station. Sourcebooks Landmark. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781464219238. 336p. $17.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

James, author of The Woman with Two Shadows and Last Night at the Hollywood Canteen, writes about an aging Hollywood starlet who in the 1940s joins the Victory caravan and encounters a choice between saving her country and saving her career.

Kaufman, Kathleen. The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey. Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496753908. 448p. $28. HISTORICAL FICTION

Told across dual timelines, 1866 Wales and 1900 Edinburgh and Boston, this novel by Kaufman (whose The Lairdbalor is being adapted into a movie) is the story of Nairna Liath, a Scottish tarot card reader who gets swept into the glittering spiritualist circle, as well as the heart-wrenching story of her grandmother.

Kraus, Daniel. Angel Down. Atria. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668068458. 304p. $28.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

Bestselling Kraus (Whalefall) sets his newest during World War I, where five soldiers find a fallen angel that might hold the key to ending the war—if only the group does not tear themselves apart through their own inner demons.

Stevens, Nell. The Original. Norton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781324110699. 320p. $28.99. HISTORICAL FICTION

Stevens returns after her buzzy debut, Briefly, a Delicious Life, with the story of an aspiring art forger, a maybe imposter, family, money, and authenticity.

Wiggs, Susan. Wayward Girls. Morrow. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063118270. 400p. $30. HISTORICAL FICTION

Bestselling Wiggs (Welcome to Beach Town) gets a 150K-first copy printing for this story of survival and friendship in which six girls are condemned to forced labor at a Catholic reform school in Buffalo, NY, during the years of the Vietnam War.

Horror

Arnold, Mallory. How To Survive a Horror Story (Deluxe Edition). Poisoned Pen. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781464227400. pbk. 368p. $17.99. HORROR

In Arnold’s debut, a group of writers gather at Queen Manor for the reading of horror author Mortimer Queen’s will and find themselves trapped in a deadly game and a hungry house.

DiLouie, Craig. My Ex, the Antichrist. Run For It: Orbit. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316578189. pbk. 368p. $19.99. HORROR

From Orbit’s new horror imprint, Run For It, DiLouie (How To Make a Horror Movie and Survive) offers an apocalyptic, punk-rock horror story. After a 1999 performance that led to a riot, death, and her murder confession, Lily is finally ready, years later, to talk to the press about what really happened that night.

Elmendorf, Dana. Grave Birds. MIRA. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780778387473. 320p. $28.99. HORROR

Featuring Hollis Sutherland, who can see grave birds—manifestations of the dead’s unfinished business—Elmendorf’s (In the Hour of Crows, a GMA Buzz Pick) Southern gothic, magical realism story receives a 75K-copy first printing.

Khaw, Cassandra. The Library at Hellebore. Tor Nightfire. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250877819. 288p. $29.99. HORROR

The latest from Stoker Award–winning Khaw (The Salt Grows Heavy, an LJ Best Book) is a dark-academia novel set at the Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted; it gets a special edition and a 200K-copy first printing.

Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. The Bewitching. Del Rey. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593874325. 368p. $29. HORROR

Award-winning and bestselling Moreno-Garcia (Silver Nitrate) writes a gothic horror saga set in New England and Mexico, where grad student Minerva’s research into an obscure author uncovers a century of danger and witchcraft.

Radford, Leigh. One Yellow Eye. Gallery. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668081211. 352p. $28.99. HORROR

When a virus strikes London, scientist Kesta Shelley keeps her infected and now undead husband hidden to save him as she desperately searches for a cure. Radford makes her debut with this take on love and zombies.

Romance

Bennett, Amy Rose. The Nanny’s Handbook for Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes. Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496754417. pbk. 352p. $18.95. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Blakely, Sally. Friends to Lovers. Canary Street. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781335014245. pbk. 352p. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Ferguson, Lana. Overruled. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593549391. pbk. 432p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Gonzalez, Nadine. Only Lovers in the Building. Canary Street. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781335903341. pbk. 304p. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Hubscher, Libby. Heart Marks the Spot. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593547243. pbk. 384p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

James, Amy. Crash Test. Avon. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063399051. pbk. 352p. $18.99. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Kate, Lauren. The Spirit of Love. Putnam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593545195. pbk. 336p. $19. PARANORMAL ROMANCE

Lee, Jayci. Give Me a Reason. St. Martin’s Griffin. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250907783. pbk. 352p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Martin, Alexa. How To Sell a Romance. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593816356. pbk. 384p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Nava, Danica. Love Is a War Song. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593642627. pbk. 336p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Painter, Lynn. Maid for Each Other. Berkley. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593638033. pbk. 368p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Rochon, Farrah. Pugs and Kisses. Forever. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538739167. pbk. 352p. $17.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Sussman, Elissa. Totally and Completely Fine. Dell. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593725177. pbk. 432p. $18. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Sweeney, Melanie. Where You’re Planted. Putnam. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593716113. pbk. 368p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Wood, Laura. Let’s Make a Scene. Atria. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668051979. pbk. 288p. $17.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Forthcoming Series Titles

Bateman, Kate. Road Trip With a Rogue. (Her Majesty’s Rebels, bk. 3). St. Martin’s. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250907387. pbk. 304p. $9.99. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Dailey, Janet. Calder Strong. (The Calder Brand, bk. 5). Kensington. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781496744753. 368p. $28. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Everlee, Jess. To Sketch a Scandal. (Lucky Lovers of London, bk. 4). Carina Adores. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781335473998. pbk. 304p. $18.99. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Guhrke, Laura Lee. Bad Luck Bride. (Scandal at the Savoy, bk. 3). Forever. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538722664. pbk. 384p. $17.99.HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Lorret, Vivienne. This Much Is True. (The Liars’ Club, bk. 3). Avon. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063352506. pbk. 384p. $9.99. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Nonfiction

Biography & Memoir

Beer, Molly. Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution. Norton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781324050216. 352p. $31.99. BIOGRAPHY

Distilling research from letters and other primary sources, Beer tells the story of Angelica Schuyler Church (Alexander Hamilton’s sister-in-law) and her influence during the Revolutionary era of the United States.

Bergreen, Laurence. Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future. Mariner. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063320543. 304p. $32.50. BIOGRAPHY

Bestselling Bergreen (Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe) turns his attention to pioneering SFF writer Jules Verne (author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea), exploring how he engaged with and shaped the future.

Brennan, Christine. On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports. Scribner. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668090190. 256p. $29.99. BIOGRAPHY

Sports columnist and commentator Brennan (Edge of Glory) profiles basketball player Caitlin Clark and her remarkable rookie year in the WNBA, along with highlighting her effect on the increased attention for women in sports.

Ismail, Aymann. Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America. Doubleday. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780385549615. 272p. $28. MEMOIR

Ismail, an award-winning Slate staff writer, pens a memoir about growing up with immigrant parents and as a Muslim in the U.S. after 9/11. He also explores his evolving beliefs and identity as he marries and becomes a parent.

Lee, Joseph. Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity. One Signal. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668087251. 256p. $28.99. MEMOIR

In his memoir, award-winning journalist Lee, an Aquinnah Wampanoag person from Martha’s Vineyard, grapples with what it means to be an Indigenous person in the world today.

Shapiro, Laurie Gwen. The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon. Viking. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593295908. 512p. $35. BIOGRAPHY

Shapiro (The Stowaway), an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist, offers a biography about famous aviator Amelia Earheart, including the pivotal role that her husband, publisher and promoter George Putnam, played in her career.

Sweeney, Chris. The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne. Avid Reader. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668025840. 320p. $30. BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning journalist Sweeney tells the story of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist, who investigated crimes and bird-related plane crashes on behalf of the FBI, the U.S. Air Force, and NASA.

Taraborrelli, J. Randy. JFK: Public, Private, Secret. St. Martin’s. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781250346384. 592p. $35. BIOGRAPHY

Bestselling Kennedy historian Taraborrelli (Jackie: Public, Private, Secret) tells John F. Kennedy’s story in this presidential biography, with a focus on how the public moments in his life were influenced by his private relationships. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Current Events

Grunwald, Michael. We Are Eating the Earth: The Race To Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate. S&S. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781982160074. 384p. $29.99. SCIENCE

Grunwald, bestselling author of The New New Deal, explores the frontier of the new, next war on climate change—the fight to fix the food system by slowing the expansion of farmland into natural landscapes.

Hao, Karen. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Penguin Bks. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593657508. 448p. $32. TECHNOLOGY

Hao, an award-winning journalist who leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, exposes the AI tech arms race from deep reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman, writing about the ominous era these self-anointed tech barons are creating.

Loach, Mikaela. It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action To Transform Our World. Haymarket. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9798888904428. pbk. 256p. $19.95. POLITICAL SCIENCE

Loach, a leader in the climate justice movement, writes about the roots of the climate crisis—the pursuit of profit, no matter the harm it does. With a call to action, Loach explores the way capitalist exploitation, police brutality, and injustice can be undone in an effort to save the planet.

History

Dodson, James. The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim’s Journey on the Great Wagon Road. Avid Reader. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781476746746. 416p. $32. HISTORY

Award-winning Dodson (who largely writes golf books, such as Final Rounds) turns his attention to U.S. history as recounted through the 18th-century Great Wagon Road, the 800-mile-long trail traversing Philadelphia to Augusta, GA. Dodson follows the road and its history from its beginning through the industrial age.

Ellsworth, Scott. Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America. Dutton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593475614. 336p. $32. HISTORY

Bestselling and award-winning Ellsworth (The Secret Game) examines the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, arguing that the murder was likely ordered by the Confederate Army.

English, Charlie. The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission To Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature. Random. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593447901. 384p. $35. HISTORY

English, a former journalist for The Guardian, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and author of The Gallery of Miracles and Madness, writes about the CIA program that smuggled millions of books across the Iron Curtain to Eastern Europe.

Gilliland, Haley Cohen. A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought To Find a Stolen Generation of Children. Avid Reader. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668017142. 512p. $30. HISTORY

Gilliland, director of the Yale Journalism Initiative, debuts with a history of the grandmothers who fought Argentina’s dictatorship to find their missing grandchildren. The account focuses specifically on Rosa, mother to the vanished Patricia, and Rosa’s stolen grandson Guillermo.

Holt, Nathalia. The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest To Find the Mythical Giant Panda. One Signal. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668027745. 288p. $29.99. HISTORY

Bestselling Holt (Rise of the Rocket Girls) writes about the 1929 quest by Theodore Roosevelt’s sons to see the beishung, or panda bear, a creature many Westerners did not believe existed. Along the way, the adventure turned deadly.

MacGregor, Iain. The Hiroshima Men: The Quest To Build the Atomic Bomb, and the Fateful Decision To Use It. Scribner. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781668038048. 384p. $32. HISTORY

Award-winning MacGregor (The Lighthouse of Stalingrad) offers a history of the events leading to the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, in time for its 80th anniversary. The account follows General Leslie Groves, Colonel Paul Tibbetts II, public official Senkichi Awaya, and journalist John Hersey.

Orbanes, Philip E. Monopoly X: How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly To Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes. Harper. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780063425132. 304p. $32. HISTORY

Orbanes, a board game designer and author of Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game—And How It Got That Way, writes about how the famous board game was used by Allied forces to help servicemen escape from German prison camps.

Willner, Nina. The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood. Dutton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593471272. 384p. $35. HISTORY

Willner (Forty Autumns) returns with both a family saga and World War II history. Eddie Willner, the author’s father, was captured by the Nazis and sent to a death camp, where he and his best friend Mike survived for five years, until the day the U.S. Army’s D Company encountered them in the woods and rescued them.

Nature

Morris, Alix. A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea’s Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures. Algonquin. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781643755014. 320p. $30. SCIENCE

Environmental journalist Morris spends a year studying these fascinating creatures and shares insights into their behavior, along with their repopulation and its effects on the ecosystem.

Poppick, Laura. Strata: Stories from Deep Time. Norton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781324021605. 288p. $29.99. SCIENCE

Science journalist Poppick takes readers on a journey through the past as she travels with leading Earth historians across the globe to explore the geology that shaped the planet.

Weissenbach, Ben. North to the Future: An Offline Adventure Through the Changing Wilds of Alaska. Grand Central. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538758335. 304p. $30. SCIENCE

Nature writer Weissenbach mixes personal narrative with commentary on climate change and technological dependency as he relays his experiences trekking through the Alaskan tundra alongside environmental scientists.

Social Sciences

Blake, Mariah. They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals. Crown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781524760090. 320p. $30. SOCIAL SCIENCES

Journalist Blake debuts with this investigation into the deadly effects of water contaminated with toxic “forever chemicals,” told through the experiences of the residents of Hoosick Falls, NY.

Johnson, Tre. Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy. Dutton. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593186473. 320p. $30. SOCIAL SCIENCES

Johnson, a cultural critic and former executive director at Teach for America, blends reporting, history, and pop culture to explore the ingenuity of Black Americans.

Kean, Sam. Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Recreating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations. Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316496551. 464p. $32.50. SOCIAL SCIENCES

Bestselling Kean (The Disappearing Spoon) delves into how researchers are discovering the tastes, textures, sounds, and smells of history and relays his adventures with these experimental archaeologists.

Kemp, Luke. Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Knopf. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593321355. 304p. $30. SOCIAL SCIENCES

Cambridge scholar Kemp considers humanity’s future through the lens of history, looking across a span of five millennia to examine why societies fail.

True Crime Summer

Fieseler, Robert W. American Scare: Florida’s Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives. Dutton. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593183953. 496p. $32. TRUE CRIME

Harp, Seth. The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces. Viking. Aug. 2025. ISBN 9780593655085. 352p. $30. TRUE CRIME

Hogan, Chuck. The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case. Random. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780593733226. 384p. $32. TRUE CRIME

Patterson, James & Vicky Ward. The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy. Little, Brown. Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780316572859. 400p. $32.50. TRUE CRIME

Sharpe, Joshua. The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders. Norton. Aug. 2025. ISBN 9781324020714. 256p. $29.99. TRUE CRIME

Walton, Johnathan. Anatomy of a Con Artist: The 14 Red Flags To Spot Scammers, Grifters, and Thieves. Rodale. Aug. 2025. ISBN 9780593797167. 256p. $28. TRUE CRIME