All the June 2024 Prepub Alerts in one place, plus a downloadable spreadsheet of all titles from every post.

Mystery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ailes, Kat. Dead Tired. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. (Expectant Detectives, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781250322739. $28. M

Alice, Poppy, Hen, and Ailsa solved a murder that occurred during their childbirth class in The Expectant Detectives. A year later, with babies in tow, the women encounter a group of local environmental activists. The moms have another mystery to solve when one of the activists is murdered during a protest. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Evanovich, Janet. The King’s Ransom. Atria. (The Recovery Agent, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781668027479. $29.99. M

Gabriela Rose returns in the sequel to the best-selling The Recovery Agent. Gabriela’s hot, infuriating ex-husband, Rafer, needs help. His bank president cousin invested a massive amount of money insuring some priceless works of art that have now gone missing, launching Gabriela and Rafer on a dangerous global hunt for the stolen artworks.

Murali, Ram. Death in the Air. Harper. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780063319301. $30. M

Murali debuts with a locked-room mystery set in the Indian Himalayas. After losing his job, Ro Krishna retreats to Samsara, a world-class spa for the elite. He encounters the rich and famous there, but all is not as it seems as people start dying and Ro turns sleuth. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Pearson, Joanna. Bright and Tender Dark. Bloomsbury. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781639732890. $28.99. M

A lead title for the publisher, Pearson’s debut plunges into the online world of conspiracies and amateur sleuth blogs as Joy investigates the 20-year-old brutal murder of her college roommate Karlie. An old letter starts Joy questioning whether the person who was charged with the killing is really the murderer. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Berenson, Laurien. Peg and Rose Play the Ponies. Kensington Cozies. (Senior Sleuths Mystery, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781496746689. $27. M

Casey, Jane. A Stranger in the Family. HarperCollins. (Maeve Kerrigan, Bk. 11). Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780008405021. $30. M

Doiron, Paul. Pitch Dark. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. (Mike Bowditch, Bk. 15). Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781250864420. $29. M

Freeman, Dianne. An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder. Kensington. (Countess of Harleigh Mystery, Bk. 7). Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781496745118. $27. M

Housewright, David. Man in the Water. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. (Mac McKenzie, Bk. 21). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781250863607. $29. M

Khavari, Kate. A Botanist’s Guide to Society and Secrets. Crooked Lane. (Saffron Everleigh, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781639106622. $29.99. M

Levine, Laura. Murder Buys a One-Way Ticket. Kensington Cozies. (A Jaine Austen Mystery, Bk. 20). Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781496728197. $27. M

Mosley, Walter. Farewell, Amethystine. Mulholland Books. (Easy Rawlins, Bk. 16). Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780316491112. $29. M

Schellman, Katharine. The Last Note of Warning. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. (The Nightingale Mysteries, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781250325792. $29. M

Thorogood, Robert. The Queen of Poisons. Poisoned Pen. (Marlow Murder Club, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781728284477. pap. $16.99. M

White, Randy Wayne. One Deadly Eye. Hanover Square: Harlequin. (Doc Ford, Bk. 27). Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781335013606. $28.99. M

Winspear, Jacqueline. The Comfort of Ghosts. Soho Crime. (Maisie Dobbs, Bk. 18). Jun. 2024. 360p. ISBN 9781641296069. $29.95. M

Horror

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DiLouie, Craig. How To Make a Horror Movie and Survive. Redhook: Orbit. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780316569316. pap. $18.99. HORROR

In Stoker Award–nominated DiLouie’s (Episode Thirteen) latest, it’s the 1980s, and famous slasher director Max Maury is making his scariest movie yet with a recently discovered old camera, even though it comes with a cryptic warning and sometimes wails. Meanwhile, actor Sally Priest is about to live her dream of being the Final Girl.

Felker-Martin, Gretchen. Cuckoo. Tor Nightfire. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781250794666. pap. $18.99. HORROR

Felker-Martin follows her multi-best-booked debut Manhunt with a story about a group of queer teens who survive a horrific conversion camp in 1995. Sixteen years later, those scarred survivors are the only ones who can end the evil buried there—and the fate of the world depends on it. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Kim, Monika. The Eyes Are the Best Part. Erewhon. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781645661238. $27. HORROR

In Kim’s debut, college freshman Ji-won’s life is in disarray as her family falls apart following her father’s affair and departure. When her mom brings home her obnoxious new boyfriend, George, Ji-won finds herself dreaming of horrifying yet enticing rooms full of succulent blue eyes. As she tries to sate her hunger and rage, the victims accumulate.

Lima, Ananda. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil. Tor. Jun. 2024. 192p. ISBN 9781250292971. $24.99. HORROR

Award-winning poet Lima offers her debut story collection, which gets a 75K-copy first printing. After sleeping with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999, a writer sees him throughout her life and pens him tales in this linked collection of surreal stories that take place in the U.S. and Lima’s native Brazil.

Malerman, Josh. Incidents Around the House. Del Rey: Ballantine. Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780593723128. $28. HORROR

Best-selling Malerman (author of the film-adapted Bird Box and LJ Best Book Spin a Black Yarn) offers a haunting new novel where eight-year-old Bela encounters the malevolent entity known as Other Mommy, who wants inside her heart. The bonds of family have kept her safe so far, but Other Mommy is growing stronger as cracks appear between Bela’s parents.

Sathue, E.K. youthjuice. Soho. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781641295925. $25.95. HORROR

Pseudonymous Sathue (Fan Club, written as Erin Mayer) delivers her first horror novel. Sophia Bannion is on the storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in NYC. Addicted to the HEBE lifestyle and their “youthjuice” moisturizer, Sophia is horrified to discover its gruesome secret ingredient and will have to decide what she’s willing to do for beauty.

Tremblay, Paul. Horror Movie. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780063070011. $30. HORROR

Award-winning and best-selling Tremblay (The Pallbearers Club, an LJ Best Book) returns with a novel about a cursed movie. The only surviving cast member of a doomed 1993 film joins its Hollywood reboot three decades later, but reality and script—and past and present—blur as he remembers the bizarre events of the original movie. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Pop Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Constantine, Liv. The Next Mrs. Parrish. Bantam. (Last Mrs. Parrish, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593599921. $30. F

In the sequel to the best-selling The Last Mrs. Parrish, which sold over a million copies, was a Reese’s Book Club pick, and is being adapted by Netflix, the Parrishes—Jackson, newly released from prison; Amber, his wife; and Daphne, his ex—become unlikely allies as a threat from the past emerges.

Elmendorf, Dana. In the Hour of Crows. Mira: Harlequin. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780778310495. $28.99. F

YA author Elmendorf makes her adult debut with this witchy magical realism tale set in the wilds of Appalachia. When Weatherly Wilder’s cousin Adaire dies, she doesn’t believe it was an accident and sets out to find the killer, guided by her own unique gift and Adaire’s spirit. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Finger, Bobby. Four Squares. Putnam. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780593713556. $29. F

Finger’s debut, The Old Place, was a most-anticipated-title pick by several media outlets. His latest spans the 1990s to the present in NYC, where writer Artie Anderson creates a chosen family with his boyfriend. As time passes, death, loss, and injury lead him to the local center for queer seniors, where he gets help finding his way again.

Hilderbrand, Elin. Swan Song. Little, Brown. Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780316258876. $30. F

Matching the title, the publisher is claiming this will be blockbuster best-selling Hilderbrand’s last Nantucket-set summer novel. It is, fittingly, full of favorite characters—and some mysteriously wealthy newcomers, the Richardsons. They’ve bought a lavish house, but when it burns to the ground and their employee goes missing, the island is in for plenty of drama. With a 750K-copy first printing.

Khakpour, Porochista. Tehrangeles. Pantheon. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781524747909. $28. F

Khakpour (Brown Album) returns to fiction with a story inspired by Shahs of Sunset and Little Women. The wealthy Iranian American Milani family boasts a microwaveable-snack empire, a mansion in Los Angeles, and four daughters. They’re on the verge of landing a reality TV show, which might reveal their secrets but may also bring them closer together.

Lombardo, Claire. Same As It Ever Was. Doubleday. Jun. 2024. 512p. ISBN 9780385549554. $30. F

Lombardo follows her best-selling, TV-optioned debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, with a family drama featuring 57-year-old Julia Ames, who has contentedly raised two kids in the suburbs with her husband. But a chance encounter with an old friend—who almost ended Julia’s marriage decades ago—upends her quiet existence.

Mallery, Susan. For the Love of Summer. Mira: Harlequin. Jun. 2024. 432p. ISBN 9780778305521. pap. $18.99. F

In her latest, Mallery (The Happiness Plan) explores motherhood and what makes a family. Peter shatters Erica’s life when he walks out, but she takes in his new wife and toddler after he is arrested, for the sake of their daughter Summer. With a 250K-copy first printing.

Maynard, Joyce. How the Light Gets In. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780062398307. $30. F

In this follow-up to Count the Ways, Maynard continues the story of 54-year-old matriarch Eleanor and her family. After the death of her former husband, she moves back to the farm where they raised their children, but resentment and anger fuel family drama. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Miller, Kirsten. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780063348691. $30. F

Miller (The Change, a GMA Book Club pick) offers a timely satire as Lula Dean tries to ban books at the public library in small-town Georgia. She starts her own Little Free Library, filled with books she approves of, but when those titles are sneakily replaced, borrowers find their lives changed in unexpected ways. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Moore, Liz. The God of the Woods. Riverhead. Jun. 2024. 496p. ISBN 9780593418918. $30. F

Moore’s last novel, the best-selling Long Bright River, was a GMA Book Club pick and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020. In her new book, worlds collide in 1975, when 13-year-old Barbara vanishes from the Adirondack summer camp that her family owns—14 years after her older brother vanished, never to be found.

Newman, Catherine. Sandwich. Harper. Jun. 2024. 240p. ISBN 9780063345164. $26.99. F

Newman (We All Want Impossible Things) pens a story about a family’s annual Cape Cod summer vacation, during which memories and secrets surface. This year, Rocky finds herself in the sandwich generation between her kids and her aging parents, dealing with menopause and realizing she can’t hide her secrets any longer. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Pooley, Claire. How To Age Disgracefully. Pamela Dorman. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593831496. $29. F

In best-selling Pooley’s (Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting) comedic latest, Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club, but they are not the docile group she’s expecting. When the city threatens to sell the club’s building, the members team up with the daycare next door to save the day.

Steel, Danielle. Resurrection. Delacorte. Jun. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9780593498460. $29. F

In Steel’s newest, influencer Darcy Gray’s perfect life falls apart when a surprise visit to her husband leads to a horrible shock. She flees to visit her daughter in Paris, where a worldwide health crisis strands her indefinitely. There, she finds refuge with a widowed American engineer and beings to imagine a new life.

Williams, Beatriz. Husbands & Lovers. Ballantine. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780593724224. $30. F

Best-selling Williams (The Beach at Summerly) tells the stories of two women united by a mysterious family heirloom. In present-day New England, single mom Mallory faces a crisis and her past, including a summer romance, while Hungarian refugee Hannah deals with her own passionate affair amid the intrigue and revolution of 1951 Cairo.

Wood, Monica. How To Read a Book. Mariner. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780063243675. $28. F

Wood (The One-in-a-Million Boy) writes a story about second chances and unlikely friendships, as Violet, recently released from prison, retired English teacher Harriet, and Frank, a retired machinist and handyman, encounter each other at a bookstore in Portland, ME and connect in surprising ways. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Yoon, Nicola. One of Our Kind. Knopf. Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780593470671. $28. F

Best-selling and award-winning YA author Yoon makes her adult debut with this thought-provoking story about a family who moves to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, CA, where they hope to find a like-minded community. But the Liberty way of life isn’t what Jasmyn expects, and her discovery of a secret threatens her world.

Literary Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chambers, Essie. Swift River. S. & S. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781668027912. $27.99. F

Chambers debuts with a story set in the summer of 1987, featuring Diamond Newberry, a teen who thinks, after her father disappears, that she is the only Black person in Swift River. A letter from an unknown relative connects her to a legacy of African American Newberry women—and to herself and family.

Cusk, Rachel. Parade. Farrar. Jun. 2024. 176p. ISBN 9780374610043. $27. F

Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Award winner and Guggenheim Fellow Cusk returns after Second Place with a novel the publisher is positioning as demolishing the conventions of storytelling. It is about art and family, seeing and being, and follows an artist, a mother, siblings, and more.

Emezi, Akwaeke. Little Rot. Riverhead. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780525541639. $29. F

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 author Emezi’s (You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty) newest is set over a single weekend and limns tropes from the thriller genre. Five characters try to survive after their worlds collide as they spin out from a sex party in Kuala Lumpur.

Kilroy, Claire. Soldier Sailor. Scribner. Jun. 2024. 240p. ISBN 9781668051801. $26. F

Rooney Prize for Irish Literature winner Kilroy explores the trauma, strain, and joy of motherhood, following her 2012 novel The Devil I Know. The Soldier of the title is an exhausted mom, parent to her toddler son Sailor. His terrible twos—and his very existence—are wreaking havoc.

Murrin, Alan. The Coast Road. HarperVia. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780063336520. $28. F

Debuter Murrin mines the rocky path women walked in Ireland in the ’90s when divorce was illegal. Colette Crowley has an affair, and her husband denies her access to her children. Neighbor Izzy Keaveney offers help—with consequences for all. With a 150K-copy first printing and TV rights optioned.

Nicholls, David. You Are Here. Harper. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780063394056. $30. F

Booker Prize–longlisted best seller Nicholls (One Day and Us—both with series adaptations) takes two characters on a 10-day hike, Michael adrift and reclusive, Marnie stuck and removed. Expecting nothing, and a bit hopeless, they come together, powering a deeply hopeful, funny, and heartwarming love story.

Obioma, Chigozie. The Road to the Country. Hogarth: Crown. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593596975. $29. F

Two-time Booker Prize finalist (for The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities) Obioma’s third book traces the history of two brothers and is set against the backdrop of the 1960s civil war in Nigeria. When his brother vanishes, Kunle begins an odyssey of redemption—through war and gilded by myth.

O’Neill, Joseph. Godwin. Pantheon. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780593701324. $28. F

O’Neill’s Netherland won the PEN/Faulkner Award, and The Dog was Booker Prize longlisted. He returns, after a nearly 10-year break, with a novel that considers the legacy of colonialism as a pair of brothers, one a UK soccer agent, travel the world in search of an elusive African soccer prodigy who could be the next Messi—and could change the brothers’ fortunes.

Perrin, Valérie. Forgotten on Sunday. Europa Editions. Jun. 2024. 304p. tr. from French by Hildegarde Serle. ISBN 9798889660187. $28. F

Perrin’s previous book, Fresh Water for Flowers, sold over a million copies worldwide. Here she writes about an unlikely friendship that develops between 21-year-old Justine and the almost-100-year-old Hélène, a resident at the retirement home where Justine works, as they share their stories and confront their pasts.

Phillips, Julia. Bear. Hogarth: Crown. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780525520436. $28. F

Following up her debut, Disappearing Earth, which was a National Book Award finalist and one of NYT’s 10 Best of the Year, Phillips tells a tale of two sisters barely getting by and dreaming of escaping their home on an island off the coast of Washington. But their dreams are upended when a bear appears.

Sestanovich, Clare. Ask Me Again. Knopf. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593318119. $28. F

Sestanovich is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her story collection Objects of Desire was a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist. Her debut novel is an NYC coming-of-age story about two friends, drawn together despite their different personalities and backgrounds as they make their way in the world.

Talty, Morgan. Fire Exit. Tin House. Jun. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9781959030553. $28.95. F

Talty makes his full-length fiction debut after winning multiple awards for his story collection Night of the Living Rez. On the Penobscot Reservation in Maine, Charles can only watch as his daughter Elizabeth grows up without knowing he is her father. After she is gone for weeks, he considers confessing his secret.

Thomas, Joseph Earl. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 224p. ISBN 9781538740989. $27. F

Thomas’s fiction debut delves into issues of race and class in the U.S., following his well-received memoir Sink. Returning from deployment in the Iraq War, Joseph Thomas tries to adjust to civilian life in Philadelphia as he pursues a degree, works as an EMT, and navigates family relationships.

Vercher, John. Devil Is Fine. Celadon. Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781250894489. $28.99. F

Vercher’s Three-Fifths and After the Lights Go Out both made best-book lists. Here he explores identity and reconciliation with the past. Reeling from the death of his son, the novel’s biracial narrator reckons with the legacy of an inheritance—land that turns out to be a former plantation. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Thrillers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atkins, Ace. Don’t Let the Devil Ride. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780063293380. $30. THRILLER

Best seller Atkins, who also writes the continuations of Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, offers a high-octane stand-alone vividly set in Memphis, TN. Addison McKellar hires PI Porter Hayes to track down her missing husband, but soon they find themselves mixed up in a deadly intrigue. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Berry, Steve. Red Star Falling. Grand Central. (Luke Daniels, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9781538721117. $30. THRILLER

Blockbuster Berry teams with best-selling Blackwood in this second “Luke Daniels” novel, with a 200K-copy first printing. Spinning off from Berry’s “Cotton Malone” series, Luke is on the hunt for the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible, lost since the 15th century. It just might hold the key to stopping a secret Soviet satellite program.

Berry, Flynn. Trust Her. Viking. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780593490327. $30. THRILLER

The latest from Flynn, author of Reese’s Book Club pick Northern Spy and Edgar-winning Under the Harrow, features characters from Spy but is being marketed as a stand-alone. It picks up the story of Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly as Tessa gets dragged back into the mire and is forced to reconnect with MI5.

Condie, Ally. The Unwedding. Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781538757581. $29. THRILLER

Best-selling YA author Condie makes her adult debut with this locked-room thriller. Recently divorced Ellery goes solo to a high-end Big Sur resort. Bad move. A mudslide closes off access to the isolated retreat, and bodies start to pile up, underscoring the dangers stalking the site. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Crichton, Michael & James Patterson. Eruption. Little, Brown. Jun. 2024. 432p. ISBN 9780316565073. $30. THRILLER

With a million-copy first printing, two blockbuster names join forces as Patterson completes a novel that Crichton began researching and writing years before his death. Plot details are thin, but the throughline involves a volcanic eruption predicted to destroy the Big Island of Hawai‘i and long-held, explosive military secrets.

Foley, Lucy. The Midnight Feast. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780063003101. $30. THRILLER

Foley, a best-selling Reese’s Book Club pick author, gets a 300K-copy first printing following The Paris Apartment. This time she offers a locked-room mystery set in The Manor, a luxury resort playing host to a range of characters with agendas—and hidden pasts.

Grant, Kimi Cunningham. The Nature of Disappearing. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781250907615. $28. THRILLER

Award-winning poet Grant returns to suspense after These Silent Woods with a 150K-copy first printing. Wilderness guide Emlyn keeps to herself. But when her ex-boyfriend shows up with news that Emlyn’s former best friend is missing, she agrees to help track her through the vast Idaho woods—slowly realizing she too is walking into danger.

Jackson, Lisa. Our Little Secret. Kensington. Jun. 2024. 416p. ISBN 9781496737014. $28. THRILLER

Best-selling Jackson, with over 90 novels to date, pens a deadly story of modern obsession as Brooke Harmon ends her affair with Gideon Ross, who vows he will never let her go. A year later things seem okay to a harrowed Brooke, but Gideon still has plans.

Johansen, Iris. On the Hunt. Grand Central. Sept. 2024. 432p. ISBN 9781538726419. $30. THRILLER

With more than 50 consecutive bestsellers to her name, Johansen introduces a new lead character, Murphy Jordan, who, along with her talented dog, leads a search-and-rescue team. Story details are largely under wraps, but the publisher is BISACing it as thriller, romantic suspense, and women sleuths. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Lloyd, Ellery. The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby. Harper. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780063323001. $29.99. THRILLER

With film rights sold for their first two books, the Reese’s Book Club authors of The Club return with their third novel, an art-infused work of suspense centered on the wealthy but seemingly cursed Willoughby family, set in 1930s Paris, 1980s Cambridge, and 2020s Dubai. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Luna, Louisa. Tell Me Who You Are. MCD. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780374612795. $28. THRILLER

“Alice Vega” series author and Sue Grafton Memorial Award winner Luna (Hideout) returns with a psychological twisty thriller centered on a Brooklyn psychiatrist, Dr. Caroline Strange. When a new patient confesses plans for a murder and indicates he knows her deepest, dangerous, secrets, somehow it is Caroline the police believe is the killer. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Morris, Wanda M. What You Leave Behind. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780063322219. pap. $18.99. THRILLER

Anthony Award–winning Morris (with a Showtime adaptation in the works for her first novel) follows the bereft lawyer Deena Wood who, while struggling to regain her center, finds herself instead enmeshed in a deadly plot involving illegal land seizures from poor families who have held on to generational homes. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Nodarse, Alejandro. Blood in the Cut. Flatiron. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781250326515. $28.99. THRILLER

Debuting with a 100K-copy first printing, Nodarse pens the story of Iggy Guerra, who returns from prison to find his father in the clutches of a poaching gang. The only way out is if Iggy will do some side work for them, venturing into the Everglades to track down an animal rights investigator.

Sager, Riley. Middle of the Night. Dutton. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780593472378. $30. THRILLER

LibraryReads Hall of Famer Sager (The Only One Left) offers a creepy thriller about Ethan Marsh’s quest to find out what happened 30 years ago, when his best friend disappeared during a sleepover. Returning home, Ethan encounters strange and mysterious events, haunted woods, and an institute conducting clandestine research.

Swanson, Peter. A Talent for Murder. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780063205031. $30. THRILLER

Best seller and LibraryReads Hall of Famer Swanson, with a handful of film optioned books to his name, returns with a twisty suspense story starring a librarian who thinks her new husband might be a serial killer. With a 100K-copy first printing and a returning character from The Kind Worth Killing.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Battles, Brett. Stuart Woods Untitled Stone Barrington #65. Putnam. (Stone Barrington, Bk. 65). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9780593540091. $30. THRILLER

Burcell, Robin. Clive Cussler The Serpent’s Eye. Putnam. (Sam and Remi Fargo Adventures, Bk. 13). Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780593419618. $32. THRILLER

Burke, James Lee. Clete. Atlantic Monthly. (Dave Robicheaux, Bk. 24). Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780802163073. $28. THRILLER

Gardiner, Meg. Shadowheart. Blackstone. (UNSUB Series, Bk. 4). Jun. 2024. 342p. ISBN 9781982627522. $27.99. THRILLER

Gigl, Robyn. Nothing but the Truth. Kensington. (Erin McCabe, Bk. 4). Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781496741790. $28. THRILLER

Griffin, W.E.B. & William E. Butterworth IV. The Attack. Putnam. (Badge of Honor, Bk. 14). Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780525541752. $30. THRILLER

Johansen, Iris & Roy Johansen. Flashback. Grand Central. (Kendra Michaels, Bk. 11). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781538726266. $30. THRILLER

Science Fiction & Fantasy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buehlman, Christopher. The Daughters’ War. Tor. (Blacktongue, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 416p. ISBN 9781250887672. $28.99. FANTASY

Set in the same magical fantasy world of Buehlman’s LJ-starred The Blacktongue Thief, this prequel hails back to the times of the goblin wars when Galva has just joined the army’s new Raven Knights, with their giant war corvids, hoping to vanquish the goblin horde that has overrun the city. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Carey, M.R. Echo of Worlds. Orbit. (The Pandominion, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 496p. ISBN 9780316504690. pap. $19.99. SF

Known for his best-selling and movie-adapted The Girl with All the Gifts, here Carey offers the conclusion to the Pandominion duology, after Infinity Gate. As empires wage war across the multiverse and face a potential extinction event, an AI has assembled an eclectic team to find the one force that might be able to save them all.

Chandrasekera, Vajra. Rakesfall. Tor.com. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781250847683. $27.99. FANTASY

Chandrasekera’s debut The Saint of Bright Doors was a NYT Notable Book of 2023. His latest follows Annelid and Leveret as they meet in the aftermath of war; events link their souls, binding them together through endless lifetimes as they reincarnate ever deeper into the future.

Dimova, Genoveva. Foul Days. Tor. (Witch’s Compendium of Monsters, Bk. 1). Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781250877314. pap. $17.99. FANTASY

Launching a fantasy duology inspired by Balkan folklore, Dimova debuts with this story of witches and monsters. In order to fund an escape from her ex, the Tsar of Monsters, witch Kosara sells her shadow, the source of her magic, but she must reclaim it to survive a deadly sickness. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Hamilton, Emily. The Stars Too Fondly. Harper Voyager. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780063320819. pap. $18.99. SF

Hamilton’s debut combines a space odyssey with a sapphic rom-com as Cleo and her friends visit a spaceship to investigate how its entire crew vanished without a trace, but then the engine starts by itself and launches them on a journey into space and further mysteries. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Kim, Sophie. The God and the Gumiho. Del Rey: Ballantine. Jun. 2024. 416p. ISBN 9780593599662. pap. $18. FANTASY

YA author Kim (Last of the Talons) makes her adult debut with a romantasy featuring characters from Korean mythology. When fallen trickster god Seokga is offered a bargain to regain his place if he kills an escaped demon and the elusive nine-tailed fox, he finds himself unwittingly teaming up with the fox herself.

Kitasei, Yume. The Stardust Grail. Flatiron. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781250875372. $28.99. SF

Kitsasei’s (The Deep Sky) space heist story gets a 75K-copy first printing. Before a disastrous job forced her into hiding, Maya Hoshimoto was an art thief, returning stolen artifacts to alien civilizations. A new job she can’t refuse sends her on a quest for an object that could save an alien species—but may have other consequences too.

Lin, Rosalie M. Daughter of Calamity. St. Martin’s. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781250287380. $29. FANTASY

Lin debuts with a historical fantasy set in 1930s Shanghai. When an attacker steals faces from cabaret dancers—that then show up on wealthy foreign socialites—Jingwen, a showgirl and heir to her grandmother’s position with a powerful gang, is afraid, but she’ll delve into the city’s dangerous underworld to fight for their safety. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Linde, K.A. The Wren in the Holly Library. Entangled: Red Tower. Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9781649377111. $29.99. FANTASY

Best-selling self-published author Linde gets a 450K-copy first printing for this sexy dystopian fantasy. Street thief Kierse is trapped in a library with a monster. She’s accidentally broken the Monster Treaty, but instead of killing her, he offers her a job—that will show her who she really is. Look for a deluxe limited edition as well, with special edges and endpapers.

Rowland, Alexandra. Running Close to the Wind. Tor.com. Jun. 2024. 448p. ISBN 9781250802538. $29.99. FANTASY

Rowland (A Taste of Gold and Iron) pens a queer pirate fantasy adventure, featuring Avra, a former intelligence agent, who flees to the open sea after accidentally stealing an expensive secret. He’ll need help from his ex, pirate captain Teveri, to escape and sell the secret, but they face danger and almost certain doom.

Sloan, Robin. Moonbound. MCD. Jun. 2024. 432p. ISBN 9780374610609. $29. SF

Sloan, author of the best-selling, multi-best-booked Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, returns with a far-future tale, narrated by a sentient AI, that follows the adventures of a boy under a wizard’s rule as he embarks on a mission to rescue the world. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Tchaikovsky, Adrian. Service Model. Tor.com. Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9781250290281. $28.99. SF

A domesticated robot with its programming changed murders its owner and runs away in the latest from Tchaikovsky, Hugo Award winner for his “Children of Time” series. Out in the wide world, the robot discovers that the human hierarchy is disintegrating, and robots will have to find a new purpose. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Topping, Zac. Rogue Sequence. Tor. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781250322432. $28.99. SF

In 2091, Ander Rade, a genetically modified super-soldier, is captured and forced into violent fighting pits. When the world bans human genetic engineering and deems modified individuals a threat, however, Ander is instead offered his freedom if he tracks someone down, but he’ll soon have to decide whose side he’s on. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Briggs, Patricia. Winter Lost. Ace: Berkley. (Mercy Thompson, Bk. 14). Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780593438985. $30. FANTASY

Ellis, Lindsay. Apostles of Mercy. St. Martin's. (Noumena, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 464p. ISBN 9781250274564. $30. SF

McGuire, Seanan. Tidal Creatures. Tor.com. (Alchemical Journeys, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 464p. ISBN 9781250333551. $29.99. FANTASY

Roanhorse, Rebecca. Mirrored Heavens. S. & S./Saga. (Between Earth and Sky, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 608p. ISBN 9781534437708. $29.99. FANTASY

Historical Fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bernini, Franco. The Throne. Europa. (The Machiavelli Trilogy, Bk. 1). Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9798889660149. $30. F

Cameron, Briony. The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye. Atria. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781668051023. $27.99. F

Chevalier, Tracy. The Glassmaker. Viking. Jun. 2024. 416p. ISBN 9780525558279. $32. F

Dodd, Christina. A Daughter of Fair Verona. John Scognamiglio Bks.: Kensington. (Daughter of Montague, Bk. 1). Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781496750167. $27. F

Foster, Brooke Lea. All the Summers In Between. Gallery. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781668034378. $27.99. F

Thomas, Trisha R. The Secret Keeper of Main Street. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780063344167. $28. F

Tripp, Dawn. Jackie. Random. Jun. 2024. 496p. ISBN 9780812997217. $30. F

Romance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander, TJ. Triple Sec. Atria/Emily Bestler. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781668021989. pap. $17.99. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Allen, Danielle. Curvy Girl Summer. Bramble. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9781250331045. pap. $17.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Armstrong, Kelley. Finding Mr. Write. Forever: Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781538742747. pap. $16.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Center, Katherine. The Rom-Commers. St. Martin's. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250283801. $29. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

De la Rosa, Liana. Isabel and The Rogue. Berkley. (The Luna Sisters, Bk. 2). Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN . pap. $19. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Doyle, Katelyn. Just Some Stupid Love Story. Flatiron. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781250328090. $28.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Foster, Lori. The Love Shack. Canary Street. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781335517142. pap. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Hazelwood, Ali. Not in Love. Berkley. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593550427. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Marvel, Mae. Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous. St. Martin's Griffin. Jun. 2024.368p. ISBN 9781250894687. pap. $18. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Monaghan, Annabel. Summer Romance. Putnam. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780593714089. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Rochon, Farrah. Pardon My Frenchie. Forever: Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9781538739143. pap. $16.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Forthcoming Series Titles

Caña, Natalie. Sleeping with the Frenemy. Mira: Harlequin. (Vega Family Love Stories, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780778305460. pap. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Everlee, Jess. A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence. Carina Adores. (Lucky Lovers of London, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024.304p. ISBN 9781335428561. pap. $18.99. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Grace, Hannah. Daydream. Atria. (The Maple Hills Series, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 448p. ISBN 9781668026250. pap. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Hoyt, Elizabeth. No Ordinary Duchess. Forever: Grand Central. (The Greycourt Series, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9781538763582. pap. $8.99. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Lauren, Christina. Tangled Up In You. Hyperion Avenue. (Meant to Be, Bk. 4). Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781368092838. pap. $15.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Peckham, Scarlett. The Mistress Experience. Avon. (Society of Sirens, Bk. 3). Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780062935656. pap. $9.99. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

Shalvis, Jill. The Summer Escape. Avon. (Sunrise Cove, Bk. 6). Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780063235816. pap. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Nonfiction

Biography & Memoir

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Devantez, Chelsea. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I’m Going To Anyway). Hanover Square: Harlequin. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9781335455079. $29.99. MEMOIR

Emmy-nominated Devantez (host of the podcast Glamorous Trash and former head writer for The Problem with Jon Stewart) offers a memoir focused on the pivotal women—some close friends, some strangers—who helped shape her life. Told in an intimate voice, and through essays, it is at once confessional, funny, and intimate.

Elwood, Phil. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians. Holt. Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9781250321572. $28.99. MEMOIR

A PR operative who spent decades as part of the $129-billion industry that manipulates the public narrative writes a tell-all that details his work helping support Gaddafi and Assad—and a parade of others. Until one day the FBI shows up and he professes an about face.

Leadbeater, Cory. The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir. Ecco: HarperCollins. Jun. 2024. 224p. ISBN 9780063371576. $28. MEMOIR

In his debut, Leadbeater details his work as personal assistant to Joan Didion. Swept into her rarified world, he is anchored as well to a harsher reality—a father in prison, roaring insecurities, and clear fault lines of class. His near decade with Didion limns the privileged artistic life and the creation of a life one wants.

Pope Francis. Life: My Story Through History. HarperOne. Mar. 2024. 208p. tr. from Italian by Aubrey Botsford. ISBN 9780063387522. $29.99. MEMOIR

Pope Francis offers a memoir of his life, looking back through history to WWII and taking readers through his personal history as well. Across 80 years, Pope Francis has witnessed war, the moon shot, and political and religious upheaval. He details momentous events in his life and offers a message about the future of the world.

Mattoo, Priyanka. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir. Knopf. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780593320389. $29. MEMOIR

Mattoo, a cofounder of the women-led podcast network Earios, writes about her journey from a wooden house in the Himalayas to Los Angeles. Forced to flee Kashmir in 1989, Mattoo kept moving for 40 years, living in 32 different places, including Italy, England, and Saudia Arabia, before finally arriving in the U.S.

Meacham, Jon. The Call To Serve: The Life of President George Herbert Walker Bush; A Visual Biography. Random House. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593729458. $45. BIOG

Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer who has written about Abraham Lincoln, John Lewis, and Thomas Jefferson, returns to the subject of George H.W. Bush, after Destiny and Power. To mark the 100th anniversary of Bush’s birth, Meacham delivers a 450-photo-rich text that mines Destiny but adds a new introduction and commentary throughout.

Miles, Tiya. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People. Penguin Pr. (Significations). Jun. 2024. 240p. ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ISBN 9780593491164. $30. BIOG

The National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried returns with a nuanced and newly fashioned biography of Harriet Tubman, searching beyond her legendary status to find a deeper way to understand and learn from her. Part of the “Significations” series edited Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nenquimo, Nemonte. We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People. Abrams. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781419763779. $28. MEMOIR

A leader of the Waorani people and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People, Nenquimo writes about her childhood growing up in the Amazon rainforest and her work as one of the leading figures in climate change activism.

O’Neill, Tracy. Woman of Interest: A Memoir. HarperOne. Jun. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9780063309869. $28.99. MEMOIR

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 writer turns to nonfiction in a personal story of finding her birth mother during the COVID outbreak, a stranger she worried might be dying in South Korea. Writing it like a mystery novel, O’Neill details what happens when the PI she hires vanishes and she picks up the investigation herself.

Powers, Ann. Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell. Dey Street. Jun. 2024. 448p. ISBN 9780062463722. $35. BIOG

NPR’s music critic offers an exploration of how Joni Mitchell came to her sense of self and music, while at the same time reflecting on Powers’s own engagement with Mitchell’s journey. Based on interviews and archival research, she offers a peripatetic biography that is as questioning of the genre as it is of its subject.

Prose, Francine. 1974: A Personal History. Harper. Jun. 2024. 272p. ISBN 9780063314092. $27.99. MEMOIR

Award-winning Prose writes her first memoir, setting it in the ’70s and detailing her relationship with activist Anthony Russo, of the Pentagon Papers fame. She was in her 20s, driving around San Francisco at night, hearing his theories and stories, and forming herself as an artist—and coming of age in a radically changing world.

Rucker, Darius. Life’s Too Short: A Memoir. Dey Street. May 2024. 256p. ISBN 9780063238749. $29.99. MEMOIR

Grammy Award–winning musician Rucker (Hootie & the Blowfish) offers a lyric memoir told through 23 songs: his own music, of course, but also works by Frank Sinatra, R.E.M., KISS, and Prince. It is a tale of becoming a musician and of navigating the blazing life of art and fame. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Telfer, CeCé. Make It Count: My Fight To Become the First Transgender Olympic Runner. Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781538756249. $30. MEMOIR

The first openly transgender woman to win a NCAA title, Telfer writes about her battle to be considered on her own terms. Along the way, she recounts her childhood in Jamaica, moving to the U.S., and training for the Olympics. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Woods, Randall. John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People. Dutton. Jun. 2024. 672p. ISBN 9780593187241. $42. BIOG

Historian Woods (Univ. of Arkansas; LBJ: Architect of American Ambition) pens a mammoth political and intellectual biography of President John Quincy Adams, exploring his extraordinary upbringing—he sat by Voltaire at the opera and was intertwined with Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and more—and his multivarious roles in the formation of the United States.

History

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bellows, Amanda. The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions. Morrow. Jun. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780063227408. $32.50. HIST

Bellows (history, the New School) considers 10 figures—explorers of all types—who have shaped the identity of the United States, from an enslaved person who forged his freedom as a mountain man to astronaut Sally Ride. Spanning two centuries, the work includes nearly 2,000 endnotes as well as a 16-page color insert.

Dugard, Martin. Taking London: Winston Churchill and the Fight To Save Civilization. Dutton. Jun. 2024. 400p. ISBN 9780593473214. $32. HIST

Dugard, who often partners with James Patterson and Bill O’Reilly, returns after his best-selling Taking Paris with another book focused on WWII, this time examining Winston Churchill’s leadership during the London Blitz and Great Britain’s air defenses, mounted by pilots known as the Few in the legendary Spitfire airplane.

Graff, Garrett M. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day. Avid Reader/S. & S. Jun. 2024. 512p. ISBN 9781668027813. $32.50. HIST

Director of the cyber initiative at the Aspen Institute, best-selling Graff (The Only Plane in the Sky; Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate) offers a panoramic history of D-Day, from the planning of the massive maneuver to the morning when over 150,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy.

Questlove. Hip-Hop Is History. AUWA. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780374614072. $30. HIST

From Questlove’s imprint comes a discography of hip-hop, comprised of one song from each year, starting with the birth of the sound in 1973. The book explains each of the songs, addressing their creation, context, and role in the genre’s development and advancement. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Lloyd, Nick. The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914–1918. Norton. Jun. 2024. 608p. ISBN 9781324092711. $42. HIST

Lloyd, professor of modern warfare in the Defense Studies Department at Kings College London, returns after his esteemed The Western Front with the second in his planned trilogy on WWI, this time addressing the vast theater in which the armies of Russia, Germany, the Balkans, and Austria-Hungary fought.

Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cech, Tom. The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest To Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets. Norton. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781324050681. $28.99. SCI

Nobel Prize winner and National Medal of Science awardee Cech explains RNA, telomerase, CRISPER, mRNA vaccines, such as those created during the pandemic, and much more in this wide-ranging work that explores the science of RNA and profiles the scientists redefining the frontier of medicine.

Jabr, Ferris. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life. Random House. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780593133972. $29. SCI

Jabr, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, explores how the living world shaped the planet—filling the atmosphere with oxygen and turning rocky ground into dynamic soil. He also addresses the human role in creating a living world—and a threatened one—introducing figures trying to fight climate change.

Kingdon, Amorina. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water. Crown. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780593442777. $30. SCI

With historical insight and contemporary science, award-winning writer Kingdon details how the sonic array of the sea sings in ways humans cannot hear. Yet, deaf to the sounds, humans disturb it with a dangerous cacophony of their own. With dozens of line-drawings by the author. Look for the audio edition with sound recordings from the sea.

Mather, Tamsin. Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and Ourselves. Hanover Square. Jun. 2024. 320p. ISBN 9781335080851. $32.99. SCI

Volcanologist Mather (Oxford Univ.) crosses the globe in this mix of memoir, travelogue, and explanatory science. She details how volcanoes function, their cultural importance, and much more as she helps readers peer into the depths of spouters in Indonesia and Greece.

Stewart, Amy. The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession. Random House. Jun. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780593446850. $32. SCI

Stewart, best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist and the Kopp Sisters mystery series, is also an artist, and her work is on display in this fully illustrated guide to those who love and collect trees. Through 50 profiles she considers lay arborists using trees to transform their communities, heal the world, and enrich the landscape.

Townsend, Alan. This Ordinary Stardust: A Scientist’s Path from Grief to Wonder. Grand Central. Jun. 2024. 256p. ISBN 9781538741184. $29. SCI

An Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow and a Google Science Communication Fellow, renowned ecologist Townsend merges science and spirituality as he explores scientific wonder and muses on how its focus and beauty create awe and helped him endure a horrific family tragedy.

Upholt, Boyce. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. Norton. Jun. 2024. 352p. ISBN 9780393867879. $29.99. SCI

Journalist Upholt explicates the natural history of the Mississippi River and the ways humans have long sought to control it. From Thomas Jefferson’s expansionist visions to modern-day arrays of dikes and dams, humans have altered, damaged—and sought to restore—the vast waterway and its ecosystems.

Current Events

Bauer, Jean-Martin. The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century. Knopf. Jun. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9780593321683. $30. SOC SCI

Bauer, who has served with the World Food Programme in the Republic of the Congo and in Haiti, considers the global and local aspects of food insecurity, exploring the causes and structures of hunger and mass starvation, while also offering solutions.

Favreau, Jon & others. Democracy or Else: How To Save America in 10 Easy Steps. Crooked Media Reads / Zando. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9781638931430. $28. POL SCI

The former Obama White House aides who launched the Pod Save America podcast deliver a guide to becoming involved and making a difference via politics without losing hope. From donating to a campaign to running for office, they suggest ways to have the most impact. With a 250K-copy first printing.

Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with Computers. Viking. Jun. 2024. 448p. ISBN 9780399562761. $35. TECH

Hall of Fame–worthy inventor, futurist, and best-selling author Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) returns with thoughts on AI and more, including connecting human brains to the cloud, printing organs, and creating “after life” technology that reanimates the dead through data and DNA.

Newitz, Annalee. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind. Norton. Jun. 2024. 288p. ISBN 9780393881516. $26.99. POL SCI

LJ Best Booked best-selling author Newitz (The Terraformers) examines the ways storytelling is weaponized for bad ends and how stories have come to fuel the culture wars. They offer insight into how misinformation works, its history, and its critical role in psychological warfare.