The best new books to read in June 2024 feature new books by bestselling and award-winning authors including historical fiction, contemporary fiction, thrillers, satires, pop culture, and biographies. Relish the last days of spring and get ready for some hot fun in the summertime with these 10 new highly anticipated June books. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of June 2024.
The Best New Books To Read In June 2024
1. Shelterwood: A Novel by Lisa Wingate
Release Date: June 4
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children caught in the storm of land barons hungry for power and oil wealth.
2. One of Our Kind: A Novel by Nicola Yoon
Release Date: June 11
Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon’s first adult novel. A terrifying and thought-provoking look at what it means to be truly free in America as a woman uncovers a secret about her new home in a utopian community
3. Traveling by Ann Powers
Release Date: June 11
Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.
4. Middle of the Night by Riley Sager
Release Date: June 18
In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend—and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood.
5. Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo
Release Date: June 18
The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing”—NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present.
6. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
Release Date: June 18
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
7. Bear by Julia Phillips
Release Date: June 25
A mesmerizing novel of two sisters whose lives are upended by an unexpected visitor—a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods, by the celebrated, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth.
8. Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
Release Date: June 25
Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.
9. Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum
Release Date: June 25
The rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer.
10. A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston
Release Date: June 25
A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction…literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.
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