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92 New Books For Your Summer Reading List
Books
92 New Books For Your Summer Reading List
Relax into your comfiest seat and reach for one—or more—of these new summertime releases.
Sweaty sports romances
The Pucking Wrong Rookie, $26
This summer’s locker-room romances include this sexy hockey entry. Here, sparks fly when rookie Logan York kisses the reserved Sloane after his team wins an important game, but Sloane, trapped in a life that’s controlled by rich, powerful men, puts Logan off. What she doesn’t anticipate is that the determined Logan is playing for keeps.
6 more picks:
- Gloves Off by Stephanie Archer, $25 🇨🇦
- Not So Fast by Karen Booth, $20
- Backhanded Compliments by Katie Chandler, $26
- Offside by Avery Keelan, $28 🇨🇦
- Crash Test by Amy James, $24 🇨🇦
- Only Between Us by Ellie K. Wilde, $26 🇨🇦
Cozy mysteries for lazy weekends
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin, $26 🇨🇦
If you love Uzma Jalaluddin’s sweet novels (Ayesha at Last, we’re looking at you!) as much as we do, you’ll be giddy about this new book from the author, the first in a detective series featuring charming (and meddlesome) widow Kausar Khan in amateur sleuth mode.
6 MORE PICKS:
- Killer On The First Page by Ian Ferguson & Will Ferguson, $25 🇨🇦
- Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill, $26
- Contemplation Of A Crime by Susan Juby, $25 🇨🇦
- Murder Takes A Vacation by Laura Lippman, $26
- A Most Puzzling Murder by Bianca Marais, $26 🇨🇦
- The Garden Club Murders by Jonathan Whitelaw, $25
High-stakes tingly thrillers
One Dark Night by Hannah Richell, $25 🇨🇦
Halloween night goes very wrong for a group of teenagers who meet up in the woods near a haunted stretch of road in England, because by the morning, one of them is dead. Told from the perspective of Rachel, the local school’s guidance counselor, her ex-husband, Ben, a detective, and their daughter, Ellie, we get a chilling glimpse of a family’s struggle, a daughter’s secrets and a town’s past.
5 MORE PICKS:
- Whistle by Linwood Barclay, $26 🇨🇦
- Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell, $40
- The Manor Of Dreams by Christina Li, $27
- We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough, $41
- It's Always The Husband by C.L. Taylor, $26
Fun, low-stress beach reads
No One Was Supposed To Die At This Wedding by Catherine Mack, $37 🇨🇦
Fans of Catherine Mack’s Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies will rejoice in both this rollicking sequel and the news that the books have been bought for development into a TV series. This time out, our heroine, author Eleanor Dash, is attending her best friend’s wedding—said best friend also happens to be the lead in the film adaptation of one of Eleanor’s books—on Catalina Island. When a storm hits and threats of murder are bandied about, Eleanor must once more put on her investigator’s cap to save the day.
5 more picks:
- The Blonde Who Came In From The Cold by Ally Carter, $26
- The Tradwife's Secret by Liane Child, $25
- Cat Fight by Kit Conway, $39
- Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson, $37
- So Far Gone by Jess Walter, $37
Lovey-dovey happily-ever-afters
An Ancient Witch’s Guide to Modern Dating by Cecilia Edward, $26
This fresh cheery rom-com bubbles over with magical toil and trouble. When Thorn Scarhart, a 39-year-old 17th-century witch with romance issues, messes up a potion, the resulting explosion sends her hurtling through time 350 years to present day. Consider Thorn intrigued at the prospect of online dating in the here and now. With the help of a couple of new friends, Thorn discovers a few things about 21st-century men, and a few about herself as well.
5 more picks:
- How Freaking Romantic by Emily Harding, $26
- How To Lose A Lord In Ten Days by Sophie Irwin, $25
- It's A Love Story by Annabel Monaghan, $26
- Heart Of The Sun by Mia Sheridan, $37
- Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley, $26
Easy reads with sunny vibes
One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune, $27 🇨🇦
Beloved Canadian romance author Carley Fortune gives us another delectable sunsoaked summer read with this latest novel. When Alice, a photographer, and her grandmother, Nan, return to the idyllic Barry’s Bay lakeshore where they used to vacation, the last thing Alice expects to find is Charlie, the charming boy who stole her heart when she was 17. But as Nan says, good things happen at the lake. Could this serendipitous encounter now lead to something real?
5 more picks:
- Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan, $25
- Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey, $39
- The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs, $37 🇨🇦
- Dead of Summer by Jessa Maxwell, $37
- The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja, $26 🇨🇦
Seductive romantasies
A Magic Deep & Drowning by Hester Fox, $24
Hester Fox’s new release imaginatively combines the 1650s Dutch Republic with a fantasy retelling of The Little Mermaid to magical effect. Young Clara falls for handsome Maurits, but he has a secret life she knows nothing about. When a struggle for power erupts between the people of the sea and those on land, it threatens to drown the two in its deadly path.
7 MORE PICKS:
- This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara, $26 🇨🇦
- The Deathless One by Emma Hamm, $27
- Arcana Academy by Elise Kova, $44
- For Whom The Belle Tolls by Jaysea Lynn, $29
- Accomplice To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, $27
- A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan, $36
- The South Wind by Alexandria Warwick, $26
Historical fiction novels
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, $27
The author of Daisy Jones & The Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo pens another surefire bestseller with this powerful story that focuses on fictional Joan Goodwin, one of the first female scientists in the 1980 space shuttle program. Joan finds community—and love— at NASA, until one fateful mission changes everything.
7 more picks:
- Daikon by Samuel Hawley, $27 🇨🇦
- Austen At Sea by Natalie Jenner, $26 🇨🇦
- The Martha's Vineyard Beach & Book Club by Martha Hall Kelly, $27
- The Paper Birds by Jeanette Lynes, $26 🇨🇦
- The Secret Book Society by Madeline Martin, $24
- Shadows In The Moonlight by Santa Montefiore, $26
- Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart De Peña, $32 🇨🇦
Mysteries for the armchair sleuth
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz, $25
Our talent crush on this inventive author continues apace with his newest entry in the Susan Ryeland series, books that tell two mysteries in one. Susan has now left her Greek boyfriend and returned to England, where she’s editing a new novel that features eerie similarities to an old murder. When the author is killed, it’s up to Susan to ferret out the clues from the past to solve the present murder, without putting herself in jeopardy.
5 MORE PICKS:
- Our Last Wild Days by Anna Bailey, $25
- Guilty By Definition by Susie Dent, $26
- Welcome to Murder Week by Karen Dukess, $39
- The White Crow by Michael Robotham, $25
- One Final Turn by Ashley Weaver, $37
Reads by homegrown authors
Again, Only More Like You by Catalina Margulis, $26 🇨🇦
In this moving debut novel, author Catalina Margulis delves deep into the connection between two best friends facing their 40th birthdays and wondering where life goes from there. Carmen’s facing job loss and a surprise pregnancy, straining her picture-perfect life, and Ally has moved cross-country after her affair with her boss torpedoes both her personal and professional lives. As the two navigate their new paths, a milestone birthday may just be the turning point for some new beginnings, too.
5 MORe picks:
- The Vinyl Diaries by Pete Crighton, $28 🇨🇦
- An Accidental Villain by Linden MacIntyre, $28 🇨🇦
- 52 Ways To Reconcile by David A. Robertston, $25 🇨🇦
- Heal The Beasts by Philipp Schott, $25 🇨🇦
- The Guest Children by Patrick Tarr, $25 🇨🇦
Memoirs & true stories
Warhol’s Muses by Laurence Leamer, $42
For fans of revealing accounts of the rich and powerful, Laurence Leamer—author of Hitchcock’s Blondes and The Kennedy Women, among others—is back, turning the spotlight onto a legendary artist and his circle of models, misfits, actresses and socialites. This book delves into the manipulative, turbulent relationships Warhol had with “It Girl” Edie Sedgwick and his other nine “Superstars,” the young and often vulnerable women in his Factory entourage during the 1960s.
5 more picks:
- The Dry Season by Melissa Febos, $36
- A Spy In The Family by Paul Henderson & David Gardner, $25
- Rock Star by Jennifer Jones, $37 🇨🇦
- Water Borne by Dan Rubinstein, $29 🇨🇦
- Free Ride by Noraly Schoenmaker, $40
Books to sink your teeth into
My Friends by Frederik Backman, $27
The human spirit rises to the top in beloved author Fredrik Backman’s latest novel. My Friends takes us on the journey of Louisa, an aspiring artist intrigued by the three tiny figures in a 25-year-old painting. Determined to find out their story, she follows the trail of the artist and his friends on a trek that highlights the bonds that connect us and the power of art and love in our collective experience.
7 more picks:
- This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze, $35
- Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin, $37
- Cattail Lane by Fran Kimmel, $25 🇨🇦
- Never Flinch by Stephen King, $43
- Aliens On The Moon by Thomas King, $35 🇨🇦
- The Names by Florence Knapp, $40
- This River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb, $39
Tales of unconventional ladies of a certain age
A Murder in Paris by Matthew Blake, $26
Stories about the power and possibility of memory are having a moment. This psychological thriller combines that concept with another trend, older women reflecting on past secrets and unfinished business. In A Murder in Paris, Olivia Finn, a memory expert, gets a call that her elderly grandmother is claiming to remember a murder she committed at the end of the Second World War. As Olivia investigates, people start dying in the present day, and the two must race to uncover the truth before they’re targeted by a killer long forgotten.
5 more picks:
- Jenny Cooper Has A Secert by Joy Fielding, $26 🇨🇦
- Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive, $25 🇨🇦
- The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel, $26
- The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King, $36
- All The Words We Know by Bruce Nash, $36
Books with buzz
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang, $25 🇨🇦
This hot debut novel is a masterclass in the dark side of social media—and influencers. Author Liann Zhang is a former teenage skin-care influencer who knows first-hand the perils of the online world. To wit: In this inventive thriller, Julie Chan discovers the dead body of her twin sister, Chloe, a popular influencer, and decides to step into Chloe’s more glamorous shoes. The glamour, however, is only skin deep, and it’s not long before the cracks in Chloe’s life start to show, with sinister consequences for Julie.
5 more picks:
- Black Cherokee by Antonio Michael Downing, $26 🇨🇦
- Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, $40
- Saving Face by Mansi Shah, $26
- The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware, $27
- These Memories Do Not Belong To Us by Yiming Ma, $33
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