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

Fiction

Pop Fiction

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. Prepub Alert.

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.

Literary Fiction

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.

Mystery

Dodd, Christina. Thus with a Kiss I Die. (Daughter of Montague, bk. 2). John Scognamiglio Bks. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781496750198. 352p. $28. MYSTERY

Bestselling Dodd offers book two in the “Daughter of Montague” series, a trope-filled historical comedy-of-manners mystery mixed with romance and set in the world of Romeo and Juliet. This time, a ghost lures Rosie Montague to solve his murder.

Dukess, Karen. Welcome to Murder Week. Scout. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668079775. 304p. $28.99. MYSTERY

Dukess (The Last Book Party) returns with a new stand-alone, a contemporary amateur sleuth story set during a murder-mystery simulation in England’s Peak District, where Cath, who just lost her mother, finds charming new friends, romance, and some resolution.

Lippman, Laura. Murder Takes a Vacation. Morrow. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780062998101. 272p. $30. MYSTERY

Bestselling Lippman (Prom Mom) gets a 150K-copy first printing for this cozy set during a French river cruise and featuring middle-aged widow Muriel Blossom, from her Tess Monaghan books. Muriel finds herself with a new case on her hands involving stolen art and flirtatious men.

Nevin, E. C. A Novel Murder. Knopf. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593803004. 368p. $28. MYSTERY

Nevin, a pseudonymous former publishing worker, debuts with a bibliomystery set in that industry. When author Jane Hepburn stumbles across the body of a reviled literary agent during a crime writing festival, she teams up with another author and an intern to solve the case.

Pennant, Mel. A Murder for Miss Hortense. Pantheon. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593701621. 288p. $27. MYSTERY

Pennant, an award-winning playwright, debuts with the story of retired nurse (and great baker and gardener) Miss Hortense. The Jamaican immigrant to Birmingham, England, must resolve a murder and past secrets in order to save herself and the community she loves.

Rao, Nilima. A Shipwreck in Fiji. (Sergeant Akal Singh, bk. 2). Soho Crime. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781641295475. 272p. $29.95. MYSTERY

In the second “Sergeant Akal Singh” historical mystery (following the award-winning A Disappearance in Fiji), set in 1915, Akal and his friend Taviti encounter murder, reports of German soldiers spotted in Fiji, far from the WWI front, and European ladies on a sightseeing tour.

Seales, Julia. A Terribly Nasty Business. (Beatrice Steele, bk. 2). Random. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593450017. 320p. $29. MYSTERY

Following her bestselling debut, A Most Agreeable Murder, Seales returns with a second in her cozy historical series, which sees Beatrice setting up D. S. Investigations with Inspector Drake. Former crush Sir Huxley is still in the picture, as are plenty of murders and flying squirrels.

Smith, Sally. A Case of Mice and Murder. Bloomsbury. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781639736928. 352p. $28.99. MYSTERY

Smith debuts with a cozy gaslight series set in 1901 within London’s hallowed legal system and starring reluctant sleuth Sir Gabriel Ward KC, who finds the body of the lord chief justice of England on his doorstep and is obliged to solve the case.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Burke, James Lee. Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie. (Holland Family, bk. 5). Atlantic Monthly. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780802164520. 368p. $28. MYSTERY

Crawford, Isis. A Catered Bake-Off. (A Mystery with Recipes, bk. 18). Kensington Cozies. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781496734983. 304p. $27. MYSTERY

Freeman, Dianne. A Daughter’s Guide to Mothers and Murder. (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery, bk. 8). Kensington. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781496745149. 304p. $27. MYSTERY

Housewright, David. Them Bones. (Mac McKenzie, bk. 22). Minotaur. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250360519. 320p. $29. MYSTERY

Khavari, Kate. A Botanist’s Guide to Rituals and Revenge. (Saffron Everleigh, bk. 4). Crooked Lane. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9798892420426. 336p. $29.99. MYSTERY

King, Laurie R. Knave of Diamonds. (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes, bk. 19). Bantam. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593873984. 288p. $30. MYSTERY

Schellman, Katharine. Last Dance Before Dawn. (The Nightingale Mysteries, bk. 4). Minotaur. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250325822. 352p. $28. MYSTERY

Toyne, Simon. The Black Highway. (Laughton Rees, bk. 3). Morrow. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780062329851. 368p. $32. MYSTERY

Walker, Martin. An Enemy in the Village. (Bruno, Chief of Police, bk. 18). Knopf. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593536643. 320p. $28. MYSTERY

Weaver, Ashley. One Final Turn. (Electra McDonnell, bk. 5). Minotaur. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250350930. 304p. $28. MYSTERY

White, Randy Wayne. Tomlinson’s Wake. (Doc Ford, bk. 28). Hanover Square. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781335014290. 352p. $29.99. MYSTERY

Thrillers

Blake, Matthew. The Murder in Room 11. Harper. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063314191. 448p. $30. THRILLER

Blake follows his buzzy, bestselling debut, Anna O (in development with Netflix), with a psychological thriller about memory expert Olivia Finn, who must uncover her grandmother’s wartime past. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Carr, Jack. Cry Havoc. (Tom Reece, bk. 1). Atria/Emily Bestler. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668095256. 448p. $29.99. THRILLER

Carr, former Navy SEAL and author of the bestselling James Reece series (the first of which was adapted for Prime Video), is back with a new military thriller series set during the Vietnam War and starring James’s father, Tom Reece.

Clark, Julie. The Ghostwriter. Sourcebooks Landmark. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781464221286. 368p. $27.99. THRILLER

Bestselling Clark (The Lies I Tell) returns with a suspense story about ghostwriter Olivia Dumont. She is hired to finish her father’s final book, in which he’s ready to tell the story about the brutal murders of his siblings in 1975, for which he was the prime suspect.

Constantine, Liv. Don’t Open Your Eyes. Bantam. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593875209. 304p. $30. THRILLER

Bestselling Constantine, coauthor of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, writes a psychological thriller. Annabelle has a great life with a successful career and wonderful husband and daughters. When her nightmares seem to be turning into premonitions, she fears for her daughters’ lives.

Cosby, S. A. King of Ashes. Pine & Cedar.Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250832061. 352p. $28.99. THRILLER

Roman Carruthers returns home to find his younger brother is in debt to dangerous criminals, who are demanding payment. Award-winning, bestselling author Cosby (All the Sinners Bleed) returns with a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic that receives a 300K-copy first printing.

Cowan, Jon. Proof. Gallery. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668051139. 384p. $28.99. THRILLER

When his former best friend is murdered, disgraced lawyer Jake West is accused of the crime and must search for the real killer. Cowan, writer and executive producer of Suits, debuts with this legal thriller that already has blurbs from James Patterson and Kathy Reichs.

French, Gillian. Shaw Connolly Lives To Tell. Minotaur. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250358516. 352p. $28. THRILLER

Award-nominated YA author French (Sugaring Off) makes her adult debut with a thriller featuring fingerprints analyst Shaw Connolly, who is being stalked and taunted by a man who may be behind her sister’s disappearance. With a 100K-copy first printing.

Gilbert, Sian. I Did Warn Her. Morrow Paperbacks. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063388505. pbk. 384p. $19.99. THRILLER

Gilbert follows her debut, She Started It (a Book of the Month Main Selection), with a story set on a billionaire’s luxurious yacht, from which there’s no escape when expensive jewelry begins disappearing and a crew member is murdered. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Jackson, Lisa. It Happened on the Lake. Kensington. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781496737038. 416p. $30. THRILLER

Bestselling Jackson (Our Little Secret) writes a stand-alone take on Rear Window. In 1988, Harper Reed Prescott returns to the town that branded her a murder suspect 20 years earlier and finds herself being watched.

Jewell, Lisa. Don’t Let Him In. Atria. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668033876. 384p. $29.99. THRILLER

Three women’s lives shockingly collide in the latest thriller from bestselling Jewell (None of This Is True) as they find that the men in their lives may not be who they say they are.

Patterson, James & Bill Clinton. The First Gentleman. Little, Brown. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780316565103. 480p. $32. THRILLER

Following The President’s Daughter, Patterson and Clinton team up again. No plot details yet other than it’s a political and legal thriller set in Washington, DC, and New Hampshire.

Robotham, Michael. The White Crow. Scribner. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781668031025. 352p. $28.99. THRILLER

Last seen in bestselling Robotham’s When You Are Mine, ambitious young London police officer Philomena McCarthy returns, this time dealing with a wounded child and a jewelry heist, which threaten her career and life as she questions who to trust.

Sager, Riley. With a Vengeance. Dutton. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593472408. 336p. $30. THRILLER

In 1954, Anna lures the people responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train, where she plans to exact revenge, but then one of the passengers is murdered, sending Anna on a hunt for the killer. Bestselling Sager (Middle of the Night) pens another suspense thriller.

Swanson, Peter. Kill Your Darlings. Morrow. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063433625. 352p. $30. THRILLER

In bestselling Swanson’s (Nine Lives) latest, Wendy wants to murder her husband of 25 years. The story of their dissolving marriage is told in reverse, revealing her motive and their shared secret. With a 150K-copy first printing.

Worley, Olivia. So Happy Together. Minotaur. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250372307. 304p. $28. THRILLER

Jane likes Colin, but he soon breaks off their relationship and begins dating Zoe. When Jane sneaks into Colin’s apartment, she makes a shocking discovery and is drawn into a web of lies, secrets, and murder. YA author Worley (The Debutantes) pens an adult debut that receives a 150K-copy first printing.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Battles, Brett. Stuart Woods’ Finders Keepers. (Stone Barrington, bk. 66). Putnam. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593854716. 368p. $30. THRILLER

Johansen, Iris. Death Mask. (Eve Duncan, bk. 31). Grand Central. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781538726334. 432p. $30. THRILLER

Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child. Badlands. (Nora Kelly, bk. 5). Grand Central. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781538765821. 384p. $30. THRILLER

Smith, Martin Cruz. Hotel Ukraine. (Arkady Renko, bk. 11). S&S. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781982188382. 288p. $27.99. THRILLER

Romance

Adler, Sarah. Finders Keepers. Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593817421. pbk. 368p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Bestselling Adler (Mrs. Nash’s Ashes, an LJ Best Book) sends down-on-her-luck professor Nina and her childhood neighbor (and crush) Quentin on a treasure hunt for the rumored riches left behind by their town’s eccentric turn-of-the-century seltzer magnate.

Allen, Danielle. Plus Size Player. (Curve, bk. 2). Bramble. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250331182. pbk. 368p. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

In bestselling Allen’s second “Curve” series title (after Curvy Girl Summer), Nina Ford dates multiple men, until she finds that her perfect partner might have been right in front of her all along. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Brown, Hannah. The Four Engagement Rings of Sybil Rain. Forever. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781538756805. 400p. $29. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Sybil uses hotel vouchers from her canceled honeymoon to book a resort vacation and finds herself juggling multiple ex-fiancés and possibly finding another chance at love. From bestselling author and The Bachelorette star Brown (Mistakes We Never Made).

Doyle, Katelyn. Total Dreamboat. Flatiron. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250328069. 336p. $28.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Doyle (Just Some Stupid Love Story), who also writes bestselling historical romances as Scarlett Peckham, offers a second contemporary rom-com, this time set aboard a cruise ship. With a 200K-copy first printing.

Lowell, Joanna. A Rare Find. Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593549742. pbk. 368p. $19. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Following the multi-best-booked A Shore Thing, Lowell writes another queer historical romance. Aspiring archaeologist Elfreda searches for Viking gold on her family’s English estate with attractive Georgie, who was her childhood enemy.

Marvel, Mae. If I Told You, I’d Have To Kiss You. St. Martin’s Griffin. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250894700. pbk. 352p. $18. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Marvel (Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous), pseudonym of cowriters Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare, pens a sapphic adventure romance where girlfriends Yardley and KC each discover that the other is a secret agent. With a 75K-copy first printing.

North, Maggie. The Ripple Effect. St. Martin’s Griffin. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250910134. pbk. 336p. $18. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

North’s (Rules for Second Chances) second novel offers a grumpy/sunshine pairing and fake engagement after former ER doc Stellar and psychologist Lyle (with whom she had a disastrous hookup) find themselves working together. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Pons, Chip. Winging It with You. Putnam. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593853504. pbk. 384p. $19. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Freshly dumped Asher needs to find a replacement partner for a travel reality show and teams up with Theo to fake-date, but they might find love along the way. Bookstagrammer Pons (You & I, Rewritten) pens an Amazing Race-inspired gay rom-com.

Poston, Ashley. Sounds Like Love. Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593641002. pbk. 384p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Songwriter Joni is struggling to write a new song—until she hears an alluring melody in her head and then meets the very real musician whose voice has been haunting her. Bestselling Poston (A Novel Love Story) offers another magical romance.

Silver, Josie. Slow Burn Summer. Dell. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593722886. pbk. 368p. $18. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Bestselling Silver (One Day in December, a Reese’s Book Club pick) returns with this rom-com that pairs talent agent Charlie with actress Kate when he hires her to fill in for a publicity-shy romance author on a book tour for the summer.

Slaughter, Jodie. Ready To Score. St. Martin’s Griffin. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250821867. pbk. 320p. $18. LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

In Slaughter’s (Play To Win) latest, assistant high school football coach Jade finds herself vying for the head coach job with sexy art teacher Francesca—who also threatens to steal her heart.

St. George, Harper. Eliza and the Duke. (Doves of New York, bk. 2). Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593441022. pbk. 368p. $19. HISTORICAL ROMANCE

American heiress Eliza Dove wants one night of adventure in London before getting married; she gets more than she bargained for in prize boxer Simon Cavell, known as the Duke. St. George (The Stranger I Wed) offers the second in her Gilded Age “Doves of New York” series.

Thompson, Alicia. Never Been Shipped. Berkley. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593640951. pbk. 400p. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Micah started her band as a teenager, only for it break up after their second album. The band reunites for one more performance on a themed cruise, and Micah sees bandmate John with new eyes in the latest from bestselling Thompson (The Art of Catching Feelings).

Forthcoming Series Titles

Shalvis, Jill. The Love Fix. (Sunrise Cove, bk. 8). Avon. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063353442. pbk. 320p. $18.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Sutanto, Jesse Q. Worth Fighting For. (Meant To Be, bk. 5). Hyperion Avenue. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781368112819. pbk. 288p. $15.99. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE

Romantasy

Arena, Brittney. A Dance of Lies. Del Rey. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593973196. 448p. $29. ROMANTASY

In Arena’s big debut, which was won at auction in multiple countries, a court dancer is framed for murder and sent to the dungeons but could earn her freedom if she spies for the king.

Halle, Karina. Realm of Thieves. (Thieves of Dragemor, bk. 1). Ace. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593819821. pbk. 432p. $19. ROMANTASY

Bestselling Halle (The Royals Upstairs) launches a new series, featuring rival thieves Brynla and Andor as they vie for dominance in the illegal dragon egg trade.

Linde, K. A. The Robin on the Oak Throne. (Oak & Holly Cycle, bk. 2). Entangled: Red Tower. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781649378521. 400p. $32.99. ROMANTASY

Linde follows her bestselling monster romantasy The Wren in the Holly Library with the second book in the “Oak & Holly Cycle.” With a 75K-copy first printing and a deluxe limited edition.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Elliott, Kate. The Witch Roads. (The Witch Roads, bk. 1). Tor. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250338617. 448p. $29.99. FANTASY

Bestselling Elliott (The Keeper’s Six) returns with the first entry in an epic-fantasy duology featuring an arrogant prince and a courier who end up on a journey fraught with danger.

Fox, Hester. A Magic Deep and Drowning. Graydon House. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781525809910. pbk. 304p. $18.99. FANTASY

Set during the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age, Fox’s (The Book of Thorns) latest is a gender-flipped historical fantasy retelling of “The Little Mermaid.”

Herman, Ry. This Princess Kills Monsters: The Misadventures of a Fairy-Tale Stepsister. Dial. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593733080. pbk. 416p. $18. FANTASY

UK-based Herman makes their U.S. debut with this story about Princess Melilot in a satire of the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale “The Twelve Huntsmen.”

Lackey, Mercedes & Larry Dixon. Gryphon’s Valor. (Kelvren’s Saga, bk. 2). DAW. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780756418892. 368p. $29. FANTASY

Gryphon hero Kelvren returns in the second “Kelvren’s Saga” book, set in the beloved high-fantasy world of Valdemar and full of adventure and intelligent magical creatures.

Lee, Miye. The Dallergut Dream-Making District. (Dallergut, bk. 2). tr. from Korean by Sandy Joosun Lee. Hanover Square. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781335015358. 288p. $21.99. FANTASY

Lee’s follow-up to the internationally bestselling The Dallergut Dream Department Store finds Penny now an official employee of the dream industry, but it’s not quite what she expected. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Parry, H.G. A Far Better Thing. Tor. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250334183. pbk. 416p. $18.99. FANTASY

Parry (The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, an LJ Best Book) pens a stand-alone portal fantasy set during the French Revolution, in which a mortal servant seeks revenge against the fae. With a 125K-copy first printing.

Race, Holly. Six Wild Crowns. (Queens of Elben, bk. 1). Orbit. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780316572927. 416p. $30. FANTASY

YA author Race (“Midnight’s Twins” series) makes her adult debut with this preempted title, a fantasy containing dragons, courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII. With a 70K-copy first printing.

Schwab, V.E. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil. Tor. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250320520. 544p. $29.99. FANTASY

Three women’s stories tangle together across centuries and continents in this lesbian vampire tale from bestselling Schwab (The Fragile Threads of Power). With a 500K-copy first printing.

Forthcoming Series Titles

Dyachenko, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko. School of Shards. (Vita Nostra, bk. 3). tr. from Russian by Julia Meitov Hersey. Harper Voyager. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063225480. pbk. 384p. $19.99. FANTASY

Older, Malka. The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses. (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, bk. 3). Tor. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250396068. 256p. $28.99. SCIENCE FICTION

Nonfiction

Biography & Memoir

Bundles, A’Lelia. Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance. Scribner. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781416544425. 288p. $28.99. BIOGRAPHY

Bundles (On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker) is Walker’s biographer and great-great-granddaughter. She writes a biography of Walker’s daughter, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance and the United States’ first high-profile Black heiress.

Gradvall, Jan. The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover. St. Martin’s. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250379856. 304p. $30. BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning Gradvall, who was instrumental in founding the Swedish Music Hall of Fame and is close with ABBA, writes a musical biography of the band, its music, and its members’ personal lives and upbringings.

Jong-Fast, Molly. How To Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir. Viking. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593656471. 256p. $28. MEMOIR

Jong-Fast, a writer at Vanity Fair and host of the podcast Fast Politics, offers a memoir about her famous mother (the author Erica Jong), their intense relationship, and her complicated childhood.

Moennig, Kate & Leisha Hailey. So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All. St. Martin’s. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250361363. 256p. $32. MEMOIR

Moennig and Hailey, stars of The L Word, write a performing-arts memoir that also focuses on their personal lives, covering topics like finding family and creating groundbreaking TV. With a 350K-copy first printing.

Randall, Willard Sterne. John Hancock: First To Sign, First To Invest in America’s Independence. Dutton. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780593472149. 288p. $34. BIOGRAPHY

Randall (distinguished scholar in history and professor emeritus, Champlain Coll.) offers a biography of John Hancock that focuses particularly on his role in the American Revolution.

Tameez, Zaakir. Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation. Holt. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250362551. 640p. $35.99. BIOGRAPHY

Tameez (a third-year student at Yale Law School, where he is an editor of the Yale Law Journal) writes a biography of Charles Sumner, the author of the 14th Amendment and one of the key figures who championed the end of enslavement.

Wallis, Michael. Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend. Liveright. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781631494772. 544p. $32.99. BIOGRAPHY

Bestselling Wallis (Billy the Kid) focuses on Belle Starr, the infamous outlaw known as the Bandit Queen, star of “wanted” posters. Wallis challenges accepted history and offers a nuanced view of Starr’s life and choices.

Social Sciences

Goo, Sara Kehaulani. Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai‘i. Flatiron. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781250333445. 368p. $29.99. SOCIAL SCIENCES

Journalist Goo writes about her family’s journey to keep their ancestral Hawaiian lands in the face of massive increases in property taxes. She traces the colonial history of the islands alongside her own efforts to reconnect with her past.

Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne. Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings. Harper. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780063246638. 336p. $30. SOCIAL SCIENCES

The bestselling author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois (an Oprah Book Club pick) makes her nonfiction debut with a collection of essays about Black women in history and in the modern era. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Starkey, Brando Simeo. Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System. Doubleday. Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780385547383. 688p. $35. LAW

Former law professor Starkey writes a history of the Supreme Court’s role in sustaining white supremacy by dulling the power of the Constitution’s 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.