Stay cool and entertained this summer with these exciting book releases!
Are you looking for that perfect book that will make this intense summer heat bearable? We are in luck for this year’s summer releases! What are you in the mood for this summer? A chilling thriller or a spicy romance? Summer reading is not only for kids or required school reading, adults can enjoy it as well! And with the following titles, you will not be lacking entertainment this summer! Many titles are being released this summer, but I’ve managed to narrow it down to the top 50 books. So, get your pen and paper or notes app ready, you’ll be itching to get your hands on these titles!
End of June Releases
What Happens In The Dark by Kia Abdullah
Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now, Lily is the nation’s favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace.
When news breaks about suspicious bruises on Lily’s body, Safa attempts to rekindle their old friendship. But Lily claims the bruises are nothing to worry about.
And then one night the police are called to Lily’s home. Lily is strangely calm – and a body lies dead at her feet.
Lily pleads not guilty, and then says nothing more. Driven by her desire to give a voice to all victims, Safa begins her own investigation into what happened that night.
But Safa is not prepared for what her quest for justice will uncover … (Credit: HarperCollins)
The Protest by Rob Rinder
A world-famous artist. A fatal brush with death.
At a star-studded opening night for the Royal Academy’s celebration of renowned artist Max Bruce, someone is hiding a dark secret.
As the night reaches its climax and Max addresses his admirers, the occasion takes a shocking turn when a protester runs from the crowd and sprays the artist with blue paint.
Max collapses and it soon turns out that the paint was laced with cyanide. Someone has been plotting to kill him.
All evidence points to the protestor – and newly qualified barrister Adam Green is assigned the impossible task of their defence.
But could there be others who wanted Max dead? (Credit: Cornerstone)
The New Neighbours by Claire Douglas
‘You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . .’
When Lena helps her teenage son gather sounds for her media studies project, she doesn’t expect her boom-microphone to pick up a conversation between her neighbours, the Morgans.
And she’s certain they are planning a crime.
Her family and friends tell her that she must have misheard. After all, the Morgans are a well-respected, upstanding couple in their early sixties. They’ve never been in trouble with the law.
Yet Lena can’t stop thinking about it. Because what if she hasn’t misheard? What if she can prevent something awful happening?
After all, stopping it could help ease her conscience about her own dark past. (Credit: Penguin Books)
Awakened by Kelechi Okafor
Set in a near-future where technology is fully integrated in our homes, and a humanoid AI is running for London Mayor, Pels is a journalist desperate to get to the bottom of a spate of disappearances of young Black British people who are then found dead by bodies of water. But her boss is uninterested in her pursuit, instead assigning her to cover the “unreasonable” protests that locals in Benin are staging in opposition to white tourists heading to retreats to partake in their sacred Spirit Vine rituals. He thinks Pels will ‘fit right in’ and can show the benefits of this type of tourism.
While Pels is sceptical, she has been having strange dreams in which she sees what seem like celestial beings, who tell her she has an unfulfilled destiny, and so a part of her is intrigued by the ceremonies… She’d rather be helping a friend whose brother has just gone missing back in London, but decides to take her bosses’ assignment as leverage to then pursue the missing kids investigation.
But when she partakes of the Spirit Vine ceremony in Benin, it unlocks a strange power within her. She learns that this has been her destiny, and that the missing children are part of a large otherworldly conspiracy that only she can stop. As she returns home to a London in turmoil as the cases of missing kids increase, before she can fulfil her destiny and help redirect the dark fate of her world-a fate controlled by people closer to her than she thinks-first she must come to understand and control her newly awakened abilities… (Credit: Orion Publishing Co)
July Releases
Runner 13 by Amy McCulloch
Expected Publication Date: July 1
Seven years ago, Adri left the running world after a major scandal. She leveled an explosive, and as it turns out career-ending, accusation at one of the world’s most celebrated coaches—and then he died suddenly. Now, after years away from the limelight, she’s ready to race again. Adri is hungry for a challenge, and she’s picked one of the toughest events imaginable: a 250-mile trek through the Sahara Desert organized by a mysterious and famously sadistic race director. It will be a true test of her will and her stamina, proof that after all these years, she can still do it. But she’s also there to get closure on the mysteries that cloud her past. Was her family targeted by one of her coach’s defenders? Was his death due to natural causes?
Adri is determined to finish the race and to find the answers to these long-buried questions. But clarity is hard to come by out in the Sahara’s extreme conditions. And as a number of runners start dropping out, some from the heat and others under more mysterious circumstances, it becomes clear that there’s someone out there in the desert trying to stop anyone from winning—by any means necessary. (Credit: Doubleday)
Circle of Liars by Kate Francis
Expected Publication Date: July 3
Seven liars in the circle. Only one can survive…’
Seven teens arrive for a school retreat – only to find an abandoned motel and a sinister text message waiting for them: I know what you did a year ago.
Each of the seven buried a guilty secret about their tragic school fire. And now someone is out for revenge.
Every hour they must choose the guiltiest one among them to cross over the white line that circles the motel and be killed. Otherwise, they all die.
But who deserves to live, and who to die? Because only one of them can survive…
Do you dare enter the circle of liars? (Credit: Usbourne YA)
- Let’s Make A Scene by Laura Wood (Expected Publication Date: July 1)
- Can You Solve The Murder? By Anthony Johnston (Expected Publication Date: July 1)
- Human Rites by Juno Dawson (Expected Publication Date: July 1)
- This Is Where We Die by Cindy R.X. He (Expected Publication Date: July 1)
- Clementine: Book Three by Tillie Walden (Expected Publication Date: July 8)
- The Game is Afoot by Elise Bryant (Expected Publication Date: July 8)
- Predatory Natures by Amy Goldsmith (Expected Publication Date: July 8)
- How To Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold (Expected Publication Date: July 8)
- Let The Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater (Expected Publication Date: July 10)
- The House at Devil’s Neck by Tom Mead (Expected Publication Date: July 15)
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
Expected Publication Date: July 15
Sera Swan used to be one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her magic, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her Guild. Now she (slightly reluctantly and just a bit grumpily) helps Jasmine run an enchanted inn in Lancashire, where she deals with her quirky guests’ shenanigans, tries to keep said talking fox in check, and longs for the future that seems lost to her. But then she finds out about an old spell that could hold the key to restoring her power…
Enter Luke Larsen, handsome and icy magical historian, who arrives on a dark winter evening and just might know how to unlock the spell’s secrets. Luke has absolutely no interest in getting involved in the madcap goings-on of the inn and is definitely not about to let a certain bewitching innkeeper past his walls, so no one is more surprised than he is when he agrees to help Sera with her spell. Worse, he might actually be thawing.
Running an inn, reclaiming lost magic, and staying one step ahead of the watchful Guild is a lot for anyone, but Sera Swan is about to discover that she doesn’t have to do it alone…and that the weird, wonderful family she’s made might be the best magic of all. (Credit: Berkley)
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson
Expected Publication Date: July 22
In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.
Jet is the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont. Twenty-seven years old, she’s still waiting for her life to begin. I’ll do it later, she always says. She has time.
Until Halloween night, when Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.
She suffers a catastrophic head injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, the injury will trigger a deadly aneurysm.
Jet has never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her former best friend turned sister-in-law, her ex-boyfriend.
She has at most seven days, and as her condition deteriorates she has only her childhood friend Billy for help. But nevertheless, she’s absolutely determined to finally finish something:
Jet is going to solve her own murder. (Credit: Bantam)
- The Goldens by Lauren Wilson (Expected Publication Date: July 15)
- The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Expected Publication Date: July 15)
- Seesaw Monster by Kotaro Isaka (Expected Publication Date: July 15)
- A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder by Louise Candlish (Expected Publication Date: July 17)
- Silvercloak by L.K. Steven (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
- Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
- Bones at the Crossroads by Ladarrion Williams (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
- The Cleaner by Mary Watson (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
- The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
- Aarzu All Around by Marzieh Abbas (Expected Publication Date: July 29)
August Releases
The Re-Write by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Expected Publication Date: August 12
Temi and Wale meet in London. They flirt, date, meet each other’s friends.
Then they break up. And Wale goes on a reality dating show.
Instead of giving in to heartbreak, Temi throws herself into her dream: writing. She’s within touching distance of a book deal that would solve all her problems. But publishers keep passing on her novel and bills still have to be paid. So, when the opportunity to ghost-write a celebrity memoir arises, Temi accepts.
And, of course, the celebrity turns out to be Wale…
Will Temi and Wale repeat the patterns of their past? Or can they write a whole new story? (Credit: Penguin Books)
Bury Your Friends by Benjamin Dean
Expected Publication Date: August 14
Ten friends. One night. A classy celebration. A deranged killer. Lots of murder.
Noah and his best friends Cameron, Baby, Fliss, Griffin, Miles, Tabitha, Wim, Verity and Hugo are finally graduating from Woodthorn Academy with the world and all its promises laid out before them. To celebrate exam results day, they’re hosting a party weekend at Black Stone, an opulent country estate, for the whole school to attend. But for one night only the ten friends will have a low-key celebration – after all, it’s how the upper echelons begin their futures.
But things take a sinister turn when they find themselves in the crosshairs of a killer making one simple demand: every hour, one person must be evicted from the house or someone inside the house will die.
With nowhere to run and a killer on the prowl, choices must be made. But, as people inside the house start to go missing too, it soon becomes clear that nobody is safe. By the time morning comes, who will have survived the night? And is the killer much closer than they realised . . . (Credit: Simon & Schuster UK)
- The Dead Husband Cookbook by Danielle Valentine (Expected Publication Date: August 5)
- Six Weeks By The Sea by Paula Byrne (Expected Publication Date: August 5)
- A Beautiful Evil by Bea Fitzgerald (Expected Publication Date: August 7)
- I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale (Expected Publication Date: August 12)
- Love Is An Open Book by Chandra Blumberg (Expected Publication Date: August 12)
- How To Get Magically Popular by Radhika Sanghani (Expected Publication Date: August 14)
- Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City by Bench Ansfield (Expected Publication Date: August 19)
- Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library by Amanda Chapman (Expected Publication Date: August 19)
- Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality? and Why Men Still Win at Work by Cordelia Fine (Expected Publication Date: August 19)
- Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror by Ashley Cullins (Expected Publication Date: August 19)
Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill
Expected Publication Date: August 19
On a train, there are only so many places to hide…
Crime fiction author Joe Penvale has won the most brutal battle of his life. Now that he has finished his intense medical treatment, he and his twin sister, Meredith, are boarding the glorious Orient Express in Paris, hoping for some much-needed rest and rejuvenation. Meredith also hopes that the literary ghosts on the train will nudge Joe’s muse awake, and he’ll be inspired to write again. And he is; after their first evening spent getting to know some of their fellow travelers, Joe pulls out his laptop and opens a new document. Seems like this trip is just what the doctor ordered…
And then some. The next morning, Joe and Meredith are shocked to witness that the cabin next door has become a crime scene, bathed in blood but with no body in sight. The pair soon find themselves caught up in an Agatha Christie-esque murder investigation. Without any help from the authorities, and with the victim still not found, Joe and Meredith are asked to join a group of fellow passengers with law enforcement backgrounds to look into the mysterious disappearance of the man in Cabin16G. But when the steward guarding the crime scene is murdered, it marks the beginning of a killing spree which leaves five found dead–and one still missing. Now Joe and Meredith must fight once again to preserve their newfound future and to catch a cunning killer before they reach the end of the line. (Credit: Poisoned Pen Press)
Wish You Were Her by Elle McNicoll
Expected Publication Date: August 26
18-year-old Allegra Brooks has skyrocketed to fame after starring in a hit television show, and she’s the overnight success that everyone’s talking about. They just don’t know she’s autistic. And now all she wants is a normal teenage summer.
Her destination for escape is the remote Lake Pristine and its annual Book Festival, organized by the dedicated but unfriendly senior bookseller, Jonah Thorne.
In small towns like Lake Pristine, misunderstandings abound, and before long the two are drawn into high-profile hostility that’s a far cry from the drama-free holiday Allegra was craving. Thank goodness for her saving grace: the increasingly personal emails she’s been sharing with a charming and anonymous bookseller who is definitely not Jonah Thorne . . . (Credit: Wednesday Books)
- The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas (Expected Publication Date: August 19)
- The Break In by Katherine Faulkner (Expected Publication Date: August 26)
- How Bad Things Can Get by Darcy Coates (Expected Publication Date: August 26)
- How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend: A Neuroscientist’s Guide to a Healthier, Happier Life by Rachel Barr (Expected Publication Date: August 26)
- The Poison Grove by Jill Johnson (Expected Publication Date: August 26)
- My Perfect Family by Khadijah VanBrakle (Expected Publication Date: August 26)
- Geomancer: The Ship of Strays by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Expected Publication Date: August 28)
- Not Going To Plan by Tia Fisher (Expected Publication Date: August 28)
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