June 2025 New Book Releases

The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark

Release Date: June 3, 2025

From the instant New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell comes a dazzling new thriller.

We Don’t Talk About Carol by Kristen L. Berry

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Debut Author

A dedicated journalist unearths a generations-old family secret—and a connection to a string of missing girls that hits way too close to home—in this gripping debut novel.

What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

Release Date: June 3, 2025

A teenage girl breaks free from her father’s world of isolation to discover that her whole life is a lie in this propulsive new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.

The Bachelorette Party by Camilla Sten

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten.

King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby returns with King of Ashes, a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama.

With a Vengeance by Riley Sager

Release Date: June 10, 2025

One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge.

Don’t Open Your Eyes by Liv Constantine

Release Date: June 17, 2025

In this twisted psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling co-author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish, a woman is tormented by nightmarish visions of her future—and then they start to come true.

I Did Warn Her by Sian Gilbert

Release Date: June 17, 2025

A luxurious yacht, a gorgeous crew with secrets and rivalries…and murder! I Did Warn Her is a cunning locked room mystery set on a billionaire’s yacht, by the author of last year’s sensation She Started It.

Someone Knows by Vi Keeland

Release Date: June 17, 2025

An English professor’s deadly past comes back to haunt her in this chilling and sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Vi Keeland.

Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

Release Date: June 24, 2025

From #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Jewell, an author “at the very top of her game” (Lucy Foley)—three women are connected by one man in this kaleidoscopic thriller.

Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady

Release Date: June 3, 2025

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game! Vying for a promotion against a bitter rival as the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy finds solace in the text-flirting relationship that started as a wrong number exchange—unaware that the man she’s texting is the one she’s fighting for the promotion.

Last Night Was Fun by Holly Michelle

Release Date: June 10, 2025

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game! Vying for a promotion against a bitter rival as the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy finds solace in the text-flirting relationship that started as a wrong number exchange—unaware that the man she’s texting is the one she’s fighting for the promotion.

The Ripple Effect by Maggie North

Release Date: June 17, 2025

A grumpy burnt out physician and a sunshine psychologist must fake an engagement to save his whitewater canoeing/ relationship therapy startup in Maggie North’s sparkling second novel about starting over.

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston

Release Date: June 17, 2025

A hitmaking songwriter and a bitter musician share a startling and inexplicable connection that they’ll do anything to shake, in the next sparkling, magical book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and A Novel Love Story.

Finders Keepers by Sarah Adler

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Two estranged best friends find that their long-abandoned treasure hunt might be the key to a fresh start—for both their futures and their feelings, from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Adler.

Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Debut Author

From body-acceptance advocate and MEGABABE founder Katie Sturino comes a heartwarming and hilarious debut. With the same candor and confidence her followers love, Sturino brings us Sunny Greene, a Carrie Bradshaw for the next generation, and her journey through the trials and triumphs of dating, friendship, and finding yourself.

Eat Post Like by Emily Arden Wells

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Eat Post Like is a heartwarming debut novel of self-discovery, resilience, and the transformative power of food.

The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

Release Date: June 3, 2025

A hilarious and heartfelt novel about how loves and lives are never truly lost, for fans of Rebecca Serle and Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Jia Song has always dreamed of luxury and success, and as a newly minted junior partner at a top Manhattan law firm, she’s finally within reach of it all—including the gold-on-gold Birkin bag of her dreams. But when she’s assigned to mediate the high-stakes divorce of the ultra-wealthy Park family, founders of a billion-dollar Korean beauty empire, she’s thrown into a whirlwind of scandal, secrets, and sibling rivalry. As she jets across the globe untangling their web of lies, Jia begins to question whether securing their fortune—and her own ambitions—are worth the cost, especially when the truth threatens to unravel everything.

Far and Away by Amy Poeppel

Release Date: June 10, 2025

The “absolutely hilarious” (Real Simple) Amy Poeppel delights once again with a charming new novel about a house swap gone wonderfully awry.

The Nimbus by Robert P. Baird

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Debut Author

A dazzling debut novel about a child whose literal enlightenment sets the stage for an exuberant tragicomedy of marriage, religion, and parenthood.

The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

Release Date: June 17, 2025

A high-concept speculative novel about heartache, hope, and human resilience, The Poppy Fields explores the path of grief and healing, a journey at once profoundly universal and unique to every person, posing the questions: How do we heal in the wake of great loss? And how far are we willing to go in order to be healed?

The Accidental Favorite by Fran Littlewood

Release Date: June 24, 2025

From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace Adams comes a wryly resonant and deeply moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?

Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores

Release Date: June 24, 2025

A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill. Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.

A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Debut Author

A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this “perfect” (Elin Hilderbrand) debut novel.

Flashlight by Susan Choi

Release Date: June 3, 2025

One night, Louisa and her father take a walk on the beach. He’s carrying a flashlight. He cannot swim. Later Louisa is found washed up by the tide, barely alive. Her father is gone. She is ten years old. In chapters that shift from one member to the next, turning back again and again to that night by the sea, Susan Choi’s Flashlight chases the shockwaves of one family’s catastrophe.

Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Debut Author

A singular, extraordinary debut about Zoe and Jack, Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they’ve discovered the cure for aging. A different kind of love story where the thirst for achievement consumes and the stakes are forever.

Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin

Release Date: June 10, 2025

A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest, from an electrifying new voice.

This Is Not a Ghost Story by Amerie

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Amerie’s dazzling, satirical adult debut tells the story of a Black man who walks into the light…to find himself in Los Angeles, where he becomes an instant celebrity for being the first visible and verifiable ghost. 

The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb

Release Date: June 10, 2025

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Release Date: June 3, 2025

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

Release Date: June 3, 2025

#1 New York Times bestselling novelist Maggie Stiefvater dazzles in this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril.

Confession of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

Release Date: June 10, 2025

There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960’s New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change.

The Stolen Life of Colette Marcaeu by Kristin Harmel

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Kristin Harmel returns with an electrifying new novel about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.

The Compound by Aisling Rawle

Release Date: June 24, 2025

Debut Author

Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards. When the unseen producers raise the stakes, forcing contestants into upsetting, even dangerous situations, the line between playing the game and surviving it begins to blur.

The Farmhouse by Chelsea Conradt

Release Date: June 17, 2025

When Emily Hauk’s mother dies, it’s time for her and her husband, Josh, to finally leave San Francisco. A farm in rural Nebraska is everything they want for a fresh start: clear skies, low costs, and distance from the grief back home. 

They should have asked why the farm was for sale.

The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

Release Date: June 3, 2025

Debut Author

In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten magic—of Reforging pencils, bringing the memories they contain back to life—holds the power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

Release Date: June 10, 2025

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1827. Boston, 2019.

Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

A Dance of Lies by Brittney Arena

Release Date: June 10, 2025

A debut fantasy romance filled with hope after heartbreak, secrets, and betrayal, as a dancer-turned-spy must decide how far she will go to secure her freedom

Six Wild Crowns by Holly Race

Release Date: June 10, 2025

From a major new voice in epic fantasy, Six Wild Crowns is a breathtaking epic fantasy of dragons, courtly intrigue, sapphic yearning, and the wives of Henry VIII as you’ve never seen them before. 

A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry

Release Date: June 17, 2025

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell meets A Tale of Two Cities in H. G. Parry’s A Far Better Thing, a heart-rending fantasy of faery revenge set during the French Revolution.