Pop Fiction | Prepub Alert, June 2025 Titles

Taylor Jenkins Reid returns with a 1980s-set love story amid NASA’s Space Shuttle program, while YA author Renée Ahdieh makes her adult debut with a novel about young lawyer Jia Song and the wealthy Park family.

Ahdieh, Renée. Park Avenue. Flatiron. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250897954. 320p. $28.99. FICTION

Bestselling YA author Ahdieh (The Ruined) makes her adult debut with a story about young lawyer Jia Song, who is pulled into managing her firm’s biggest client, the Park family, owners of a billion-dollar Korean beauty brand. With a 250K-copy first printing.

Backman, Fredrik. My Friends. Atria. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781982112820. 448p. $29.99. FICTION

Bestselling Backman, whose A Man Called Ove was turned into a movie starring Tom Hanks, returns with a tale of four teenage friends depicted in a painting. Artist Louisa ends up with the portrait 25 years later and decides to find out the story behind the canvas.

Bloom, Amy. I’ll Be Right Here. Random. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781984801722. 240p. $28. FICTION

Bestselling Bloom (In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss) returns to fiction with this multigenerational story of found family. Teenage Gazala Benamar immigrates to New York from Paris after World War II and makes lifelong friends.

Erlick, Nikki. The Poppy Fields (Deluxe Limited Edition). Morrow. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063349339. 324p. $32. FICTION

In this novel of heartache and hope, a new research center allows people suffering from loss to sleep through their pain and wake up healed, with some potential side effects. The latest from bestselling Erlick (The Measure was a Read with Jenna pick) receives a deluxe limited edition with a 250K-copy first printing.

Itami, Emily. Kakigori Summer. Mariner. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063432161. 336p. $30. FICTION

Itami follows her debut (Fault Lines, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award) with this story about sisters Rei, Kiki, and Ai, who reunite as adults for one summer when a scandal brings them together on the Japanese coast. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Littlewood, Fran. The Accidental Favorite. Holt. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250857118. 320p. $29.99. FICTION

Bestselling Littlewood (Amazing Grace Adams, a Read with Jenna pick) offers a multigenerational family drama of sisterhood and sibling rivalry when one daughter is inadvertently revealed to be their father’s favorite. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Reid, Taylor Jenkins. Atmosphere: A Love Story. Ballantine. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593158715. 352p. $30. FICTION

In 1980, physics and astronomy professor Joan Goodwin joins NASA’s Space Shuttle program, where she finds a passion and a love she never imagined. The latest from bestselling Reid, whose Daisy Jones & the Six was a Reese’s Book Club pick and adapted as a streaming series.

Rothschild, Loretta. Finding Grace. St. Martin’s. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250381828. 336p. $29. FICTION

Honor has a seemingly good life with her daughter and husband, but another woman has fallen for him. Rothschild’s debut has already received blurbs from multiple bestselling authors and gets a 200K-copy first printing.

Steel, Danielle. A Mother’s Love. Delacorte. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593498736. 288p. $29. FICTION

In prolific and bestselling Steel’s (Triangle) latest, Halley Holbrook is approaching her 50th birthday and an empty nest, so she decides to visit Paris, where she meets a new love interest and encounters a thief.

Taylor, Austin. Notes on Infinity. Celadon. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250376107. 400p. $29.99. FICTION

Harvard alum Taylor pens a debut about Zoe and Jack, Harvard students who create an antiaging drug and find themselves in the biotech startup world. Then an accusation threatens to destroy the company—and their partnership. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Walter, Jess. So Far Gone. Harper. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780062868145. 304p. $30. FICTION

After the 2016 U.S. election, Rhys Kinnick is fed up and goes off the grid, until he must reemerge to rescue his daughter and grandchildren from a dangerous militia. The latest from bestselling Walter, whose multi-best-booked The Cold Millions was a LibraryReads and Indie Next pick, receives a 200K-copy first printing.

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