Bromiley, Evanthia. Crown. Grove. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780802164629. 288p. $27. LITERARY FICTION

Bromiley debuts with a coming-of-age novel that meditates on community, eviction, and a young family. Jude Woods is pregnant, without a job, and the mother of Evan and Virginia. In three days, she will be evicted. Jude, Evan, and Virginia voice the story, along with their blue-collar community, contributing to a novel told in seven layered sections.

Choi, Susan. Flashlight. Farrar. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780374616373. 464p. $30. LITERARY FICTION

Choi, who won the National Book Award for Trust Exercise, explores the impact on a family after a father goes missing during a night walk on the beach. With a 250K-copy first printing.

Daley-Ward, Yrsa. The Catch. (Well-Read Black Girl x Liveright). Liveright. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781324092513. 320p. $28.99. LITERARY FICTION

The inaugural book of the “Well-Read Black Girl x Liveright” series, a collaboration with Glory Edim. Poet and award-winning memoirist Daley-Ward (The Terrible) makes her fiction debut with a story about twin sisters encountering a stranger who may be their missing mother.

Ebbott, Hal. Among Friends. Riverhead. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593854198. 320p. $28. LITERARY FICTION

This buzzy literary debut was a preempt for Riverhead and has already sold to seven other territories. The novel centers on two interconnected families and a betrayal that upends 30 years of friendship.

Franklin, Rob. Great Black Hope. Summit. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668077436. 320p. $28.99. LITERARY FICTION

Franklin, cofounder of Art for Black Lives, debuts with a literary coming-of-age crime novel. Smith, a queer Black Stanford grad is arrested for cocaine possession and is dragged into the court system, only to find himself caught between his class and his race.

Hunter, Megan. Days of Light. Grove. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780802164773. NAp. $28. LITERARY FICTION

Hunter, whose The End We Start From was turned into a film and whose The Harpy is being adapted for TV, returns with a literary historical about art, desire, and faith and set in England, spanning six decades and six critical days.

Khemiri, Jonas Hassen. The Sisters. Farrar. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780374618896. 656p. $30. LITERARY FICTION

National Book Award for Translated Literature finalist Khemiri (The Family Clause) pens his first book in English, a sibling story about three sisters and a man named Jonas who observes them from afar and whose life sometimes interconnects with theirs.

Kim, Ho-Yeon. The Second Chance Convenience Store. tr. from Korean by Janet Hong. Harper Perennial. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063354777. pbk. 224p. $17.99. LITERARY FICTION

A man finds a second chance in life through the kindness of a convenience store owner in this work of healing fiction, a million-copy international bestseller that was named Korea’s book of the year.

Oates, Joyce Carol. Fox. Hogarth. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593978085. 640p. $32. LITERARY FICTION

Award-winning and bestselling Oates (Butcher) sets her newest in dark academia, offering a new take on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita via a feminist twist, centered on Francis Fox, a beguiling English teacher.

Okonkwo, Esther Ifesinachi. The Tiny Things Are Heavier. Bloomsbury. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781639734108. 288p. $28.99. LITERARY FICTION

Okonkwo earns a 90K-copy first printing for her coming-of-age debut, which follows Sommy, a Nigerian student who moves to the U.S. for grad school, taking guilt and homesickness with her. She discovers connections in her new city but experiences disarray upon returning home for the summer.

Reva, Maria. Endling. Doubleday. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780385545310. 352p. $29. LITERARY FICTION

Reva debuts with an absurdist literary novel about the romance tours of Ukraine, where Western men come in search of docile brides. Yeva, a biologist, funds her research by entertaining such men, while sisters Nastia and Solomiya pose as bride and translator. Somehow, they end up together, with a snail and a truck of kidnapped bachelors.