SUMMER READING FRONT COVER
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the “nothing short of brilliant” (People) Mrs. Everything returns with an unforgettable novel about friendship and forgiveness set during a disastrous wedding on picturesque Cape Cod. 9781501133510 | $28.00 HC 9781797108391 | $39.99 CD Atria Books
The beloved author returns with a remarkable novel of both raw suspense and lyrical beauty—the story of a lost pilot and a wartime photographer that will leave its mark on every reader’s soul. 9780062834782 | $27.99 HC William Morrow & Company
From the New York Times- bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t A debut novel of exceptional power married Bill Clinton? and urgency, haunting and beautiful, 9780399590917 | $28.00 HC brutal, vibrant, impossible to forget. Random House 9780525658696 | $25.95 HC Knopf Publishing Group
2 Summer Reading From the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, a mother- and-daughter duo watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into something they never expected in this hilarious and insightful new novel. 9780451491893 | $16.00 PB Berkley Books
Mallery’s latest is an emotional, witty, and heartfelt story about two best friends who are determined to help one another strike things up and live life to the fullest. 9781335136961 | $26.99 HC HQN
By the #1 New York Times- bestselling author of Summer of ‘69, an unforgettable story of an unconventional love that knows After marrying the heir to the one season. throne, Rebecca “Bex” Porter must 9780316420044 | $28.00 HC survive her own scandals as she 9780316497961 | $30.00 HC adjusts to life in the glamorous 9781549182853 | $40.00 CD British royal family, in this highly Little, Brown and Company anticipated follow-up to The Royal We. 9781538715918 | $28.00 HC The story behind Toole’s groundbreaking Grand Central Publishing A Confederacy of Dunces—how it was discovered, championed, and published—is as engaging and colorful as the novel itself. 9781643131931 | $25.95 HC Pegasus Books
2020 3 When a baby is left on the doorstep of a Cape Cod beach house, an unlikely group of women risks all they hold dear to harbor and protect her in this page-turning story from a USA Today- bestselling author. 9780316476850 | $28.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
Two female cofounders of a wellness start-up struggle to find balance between being good people and doing good business, while trying to their friendship. 9780143135197 | $16.00 PB Penguin Books
The best drama happens offstage in this undeniably charming novel about an idyllic summer theater where hot stars, has-beens, and hopefuls chase roles—and each other. A novel about mothers and 9781525823589 | $17.99 PB daughters, about taking chances, Graydon House about exploding secrets and testing the boundaries of family. 9780778351238 | $16.99 PB MIRA Books
4 Summer Reading This jewel of a book, which is sharply observed and excruciatingly funny, explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when people are forced to uncover the lies they tell themselves. 9780593086438 | $27.00 HC Riverhead Books
Emmy Award-winner, lawyer, journalist, and The View cohost Hostin makes her literary debut with this novel about a life- changing summer along the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard. 9780062994172 | $28.99 HC William Morrow & Company
Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and 10 others over the side of a mountain. Suspended between worlds, she A college drop-out becomes a watches helplessly as those she rising star in the world of Instagram loves struggle to survive. influencing when one of her posts 9781542006583 | $14.95 PB gets a signal boost from none Lake Union Publishing other than a wildly popular self- help guru and the owner of a lifestyle brand empire. 9781525804564 | $15.99 PB Graydon House
2020 5 ”This deeply moving and heartfelt From the bestselling author of A stunning, lyrical novel set book explores what makes a One Day comes a bittersweet and in the rolling foothills of the home—and how homes make us. brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale Appalachians in which a young It’s deftly plotted, sensuously about the heart-stopping thrill of girl discovers stark truths that will told, and incredibly smart...”—Liam first love—and how just one summer haunt her for the rest of her life. Callanan, author of Paris by the Book can forever change a life. 9780525657071 | $26.95 HC 9781250239341 | $26.99 HC 9780358248361 | $16.99 PB Knopf Publishing Group St. Martin’s Press Mariner Books
In this compelling coming of age This book takes a keen-eyed look story, culture, family, friends, at the complexities of female bullies, and lovers propel two friendship, the corrosive power young people to unite to guard of jealousy and guilt, and the each other in a world where way that life can quietly erode love, hope, and connectedness people’s dreams unless they’re ultimately triumph. willing to fight for them. 9780881467376 | $25.00 HC 9781786077653 | $25.95 HC Mercer University Press ONEWorld Publications
6 Summer Reading Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant, original novel about a woman going through a breakup who is really having more of a breakdown. 9781982141936 | $27.00 HC Gallery/Scout Press
Bold, tender, propulsive, and unexpected in countless ways, Frazier’s book is a moving and funny portrait of a flawed, unforgettable young woman as she tries to find her place in the world. 9780385545723 | $24.95 HC Doubleday Books
Hidden desires, long-held secrets, and the sacrifices people make for family are at the heart of this powerful first novel by the popular Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. “...a quiet force of a Set during the splendid summer novel.”—Mary Beth Keane, New days of 1960s Martha’s Vineyard, York Times-bestselling author this page-turning debut novel pulls 9780525479352 | $28.00 HC back the curtain on one mysterious Random House and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny. 9781982115029 | $27.00 HC 9781797106397 | $39.99 CD Gallery Books
2020 7 Over the course of one summer that begins with a shocking tragedy, three generations of the Adler family grapple with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets in this stunning debut novel. 9781982132460 | $25.99 HC 9781797107073 | $39.99 CD Simon & Schuster
In 1935, three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys. 9780451490889 | $16.00 PB Berkley Books
In nationally bestselling author Davis’s latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. A #1 New York Times bestseller. 9781524744618 | $27.00 HC Moving between contemporary Dutton Books Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, this is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship. 9780062993885 | $9.99 PB William Morrow & Company
8 Summer Reading The New York Times-bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker returns to her most famous heroine, Mary Todd Lincoln, in this compelling story of love, loss, and sisterhood rich with history and suspense. 9780062975973 | $28.99 HC William Morrow & Company
”A beautifully written, highly seductive debut...Masterful storytelling which is sure to delight fans of the Brontës and of historical fiction.”—Hazel Gaynor, New York Times-bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter 9781982137236 | $27.00 HC Atria Books
From “the reigning royalty of Minnesota murder mysteries” (The Rake) comes a striking new heroine: a young Irish immigrant caught up in a deadly plot in 19th-century Deadwood. A new gothic Victorian tale set on 9781517908591 | $22.95 HC the atmospheric Cornish coast in a University of Minnesota Press rambling house by the sea in which a maid cares for a mute old woman with a mysterious past, alongside her superstitious staff. 9780143135531 | $17.00 PB Penguin Books
2020 9 Inspired by true events, this is a story of treason, espionage, and geopolitics, a family sundered by the conflict between the states, and of British capitalists lusting to dismember the United States for their own benefit. 9781480873889 | $25.99 PB 9781480873902 | $44.95 HC Archwaypublishing
Adventure abounds as a group of senior citizens escape through the Berlin Wall to freedom. Based on the inspiring true story of one of the most daring Cold War exoduses. 9781948460057 | $22.95 PB Righter’s Mill Press LLC
Spanning three generations and 150 years, this moving epic dares to tell the story of modern capitalism through the saga of the Lehman brothers and their descendants. From the pogrom in the village 9780062940445 | $35.00 HC near Pinsk to the reality of the Harpervia Third Republic, the author takes readers on a narrative that changes perspective, epochs, and countries, and follows the fate of several generations of the Brok family. 9781950423187 | $18.00 PB Winged Hussar Publishing
10 Summer Reading Continuing her delightful Bridgerton Prequel series, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Quinn presents the latest love story between the Bridgerton and Rokesby families. 9780062956163 | $7.99 PB Avon Books
A shy wallflower meets her dream man— or does she?—in the next book in New York Times-bestselling author James’ Wildes of Lindow series. 9780062878069 | $7.99 PB Avon Books
From the #1 bestselling author of the beloved Calendar Girl books comes the first in a witty, wise and emotionally compelling new series, where coming home is just the beginning. 9781335484918 | $16.99 PB HQN
2020 11 Samantha Fremont, a woman trying to establish her fashion design business, and Ian Somerhill, a man trying to recover from his wife’s death, both thought they knew what the future held—until the summer they crossed paths in Haven Point. 9781335014269 | $9.99 PB HQN
At long last, the legendary New York Times-bestselling author returns with a heartfelt novel of womanhood, a wild heart, and the healing power of love. 9780062973054 | $28.99 HC William Morrow & Company
USA Today-bestselling author Morgan returns with a life- affirming exploration of love, loss, and how families come in all shapes and sizes. 9781335014931 | $16.99 PB Powerfully emotional, New York HQN Times-bestselling author Yates’ new novel is a heartwarming exploration of how life’s biggest challenges can turn into the greatest opportunities of all. 9781335014924 | $16.99 PB HQN
12 Summer Reading A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking, from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Wedding Date, The Proposal, and Royal Holiday. 9780593100813 | $26.00 HC 9780593100820 | $16.00 PB Berkley Books
Nora has freed herself from her volatile father and her conservative small Texas town, but she also left behind the one woman she can’t forget. Now tragedy calls her back home to confront her past—and reconcile her future. 9781525832208 | $27.99 HC Graydon House
It was supposed to be a fun girls’ weekend in Salem, but when a past-life regression session instead sends a terrifying vision of murder to Kylie Connelly, she’s shaken and doesn’t know what to think. 9780778309598 | $9.99 PB MIRA Books
2020 13 Building on the comedic hijinks of Penelope Lemon: Game On!, this book is a warmhearted look at the challenges of being a single working mom trying to stay afloat in the middle class after a divorce. 9780807172674 | $29.95 HC LSU Press
First the white members of Raj Bhatt’s posh tennis club call him racist. Then his life falls apart. Along the way, he wonders: where does he, a brown man, belong in America? 9780358379928 | $15.99 PB Mariner Books
A Republican Congressman struggles to save his career after a stuffed aardvark appears on his doorstep in this original and uproarious novel of politics, power, and sexuality. 9780316536158 | $26.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
14 Summer Reading The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells an unexpected story. 9780812997439 | $30.00 HC Random House
“A portrait of social class in New York City...at once witty, spooky, and lively, with several realities all performing themselves simultaneously.”—Lorrie Moore, author The Gate at the End of the Stairs 9781984880277 | $26.00 HC Penguin Press
Lucy McKay, a high school English teacher from Mississippi, is estranged from her divorced parents. Told in a double-journal form by Lucy and her father, this is a story of love’s cost A taut, page-turning novel of and necessity. secrets and strife. When two 9780881467369 | $25.00 HC families—one rich, one not—vacation Mercer University Press together off the coast of South Carolina, little do they know that someone won’t be returning home. 9780358041528 | $16.99 PB Mariner Books
2020 15 Clegg returns with a deeply moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness. 9781476798202 | $28.00 HC 9781508252337 | $34.99 CD Gallery/Scout Press
A fearless semi- autobiographical novel about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, and a cataclysmic ending of the world. 9780525655978 | $27.95 HC Knopf Publishing Group
An award-winning, beautiful, and bittersweet adventure, this story weaves together the complex threads of one girl’s search for wholeness, the reckoning of lives left behind, and a culture’s disregard for its women. This novel is a tragic love story set 9781480870055 | $16.99 PB during the 2009 French Caribbean 9781480870567 | $33.95 HC general strikes that exposed deep Archway Publishing ethnic, racial, and class disparities within Guadeloupe. 9780813944227 | $21.95 PB University of Virginia Press
16 Summer Reading In this explosive legal thriller from New York Times- bestselling author Turow, two formidable men collide: a celebrated criminal defense lawyer at the end of his career and his lifelong friend, a renowned doctor accused of murder. 9781538748138 | $29.00 HC 9781538748121 | $31.00 HC 9781549118142 | $40.00 CD Grand Central Publishing
A murder investigation draws firebrand attorney Samantha Brinkman into her boyfriend’s past in this novel of high-risk suspense by bestselling author Marcia Clark. 9781542091152 | $15.95 PB 9781542091176 | $24.95 HC Thomas & Mercer
In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. When a woman from Patrick’s past appears unexpectedly, Stephanie isn’t sure what—or who—to believe. 9781984880512 | $27.00 HC 9780593289372 | $20.00 CD Pamela Dorman Books
2020 17 There are two sides to every story: yours and mine, ours and theirs, His & Hers. Which means someone is always lying. A fast-paced, complex, and dark puzzle that will keep readers guessing until the very end. 9781250266071 | $27.99 HC Flatiron Books
From the author of Girls on Fire comes a psychologically riveting novel centered around a woman with no memory, the scientists invested in studying her, and the daughter who longs to understand. 9781982139490 | $27.00 HC 9781797106564 | $39.99 CD Scribner Book Company
Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont is drawn into an intriguing, and shockingly personal, case in this superb tale of suspense from the New York Times-bestselling author. Even in retirement, murder is still the name of Beaumont’s game. 9780062853448 | $9.99 PB William Morrow & Company
18 Summer Reading When Eve Duncan’s daughter, Jane MacGuire, becomes a madman’s target, Jane must team up with longtime love interest Seth Caleb in this suspense novel from the #1 bestselling author of Smokescreen. 9781538762967 | $28.00 HC 9781538752173 | $30.00 LP HC 9781549141393 | $35.00 CD Grand Central Publishing
The lies between a husband and wife are revealed, unraveling their family in this thrilling novel that moves between Beaulieu-Sur Mer, Switzerland, and Amagansett. 9780143135180 | $16.00 PB Penguin Books
Even with South Beach in her rearview, Apple is still unable to settle down and focus on being a mom. Not when the streets In Toronto, Hannah falls in love with keep talking about Queenie, an Michael Anderson, a United States enigmatic sista who is calling Federal Prosecutor. But after she herself the Queen of New York. finds herself being terrorized, and 9781620781029 | $15.00 PB people around her are disappearing Melodrama Publishing or dying, she must decide whether to listen to an FBI Agent’s warning or to her heart. 9781796073874 | $19.99 PB Xlibris Us
2020 19 When Belle’s best friend invites her on a glamorous girls’ getaway aboard her billionaire boyfriend’s yacht, the only sensible answer is yes. But once aboard the luxurious Lion’s Den, it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. 9781538733639 | $28.00 HC 9781549151354 | $30.00 CD Grand Central Publishing
Cadence “Cady” Archer arrives on Harvard’s campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Soon, her prying turns up clues that grow increasingly sinister. 9780525510369 | $27.00 HC Random House
Sunday Times-bestselling author Parks explores the darkest corners of a relationship in free fall in a mesmerizing tale of marriage and secrets. 9780778388142 | $28.99 HC MIRA Books
A roller-coaster domestic thriller for fans of Ruth Ware featuring a rustic cottage retreat, a suspicious neighbour, a violent kidnapping, and a wife whose husband isn’t telling her the truth. 9781459746152 | $15.99 PB Dundurn Group
20 Summer Reading It all started with just one little lie. But everyone knows that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another... “Dark, vivid, and engrossing.”—Cara Hunter, bestselling author of Close to Home 9781984879714 | $26.00 HC Pamela Dorman Books
From Dean Koontz, the international bestselling master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying threat to humanity and the singular compassion it will take to defeat it. 9781542019507 | $28.99 HC Thomas & Mercer
In a world where women can’t have it all, but are selected as either mothers or workers at the beginning of their adult lives, is choice the biggest burden of all? From Academy Award-winning del 9780385545631 | $26.95 HC Toro and bestselling author Hogan Doubleday Books comes a strange, terrifying, and darkly wondrous world of suspense, mystery, and literary horror. 9781538761748 | $28.00 HC 9781478999379 | $35.00 CD Grand Central Publishing
2020 21 Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo Award-winning and New York Times- bestselling author Jemisin. 9780316509848 | $28.00 HC 9781549157271 | $39.00 CD Orbit
Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times-bestselling author Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled take on the Bard’s most performed play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 9780062434029 | $28.99 HC William Morrow & Company
This is the story of war, its logistics, and the fear of death, but most of all it is the story of hope, the necessary foundation of courage Over the centuries, the all- and daring, and emotions of encompassing caretaker, the Society, the irascible appetite—often has raised humanity and protected accompanied by anger. it from a rogue, vaccine originated 9781462412877 | $17.99 PB virus. However, three young adults, Inspiring Voices start to question what they’ve been taught. 9781973678861 | $19.95 PB 9781973678854 | $35.95 HC WestBow Press
22 Summer Reading Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Crichton a household name—and spawned a new genre, the technothriller—the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. 9780062473349 | $9.99 PB Harper
Get to know tomorrow’s brightest creative talents chosen by some of today’s bestselling authors and celebrated artists including Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, and more. 9781619866591 | $15.95 PB Galaxy Press
On Earth, thousands of people are dying. Is the Government attempting to conceal a failed experiment? Or were they involved in a Top Secret Project using humans as guinea pigs? 9781796073799 | $19.99 PB Xlibris Us
2020 23 This collection provides a contrast of nature and life, their parallel collage, their montage, and a voice that blends life together. 9781450237673 | $14.95 PB iUniverse
The author leads readers through a variety of relatable emotions and experiences that encourage self-reflection, in this volume of poetry that speaks from the heart and creates a delightful experience. 9781458222565 | $15.99 PB 9781458222558 | $33.95 HC Abbott Press
24 Summer Reading Based on a true story, this book tells the tale of one little mouse who lives on, eager to entertain and educate. The story also offers topics for guided discussion, including fear, empathy, acceptance, and rightness. (Ages 4 to 8) 9781532026102 | $20.99 PB 9781532026126 | $29.99 HC iUniverse
Designed with the thoughts and feelings that everyone experiences, this tale of a community of bugs who agree to upgrade their forest provides the opportunity for dialogue with children about how to turn everyday challenges into something great. (Ages 4 to 8) 9781504394369 | $15.95 PB Balboa Press
It’s the end of summer, and for incoming sixth grader Nathan, his life couldn’t be more pathetic than it already is. Well, it appears to be so, until a strange man gives Nathan a box of fortune cookies one day. (Ages 9 to 12) 9781982240691 | $11.99 PB Balboa Press
2020 25 The CNN analyst and youngest state representative in South Carolina’s history illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten rural, Black working-class men and women. 9780062917454 | $26.99 HC Amistad Press
From the much-acclaimed novelist and essayist Khakpour, a beautifully rendered, poignant collection of personal essays, chronicling immigrant and Iranian-American life in the contemporary moment. 9780525564713 | $16.00 PB Vintage
With her signature warmth and hilarity, Streeter offers readers a portrait of widowhood they haven’t seen before, one that “will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page” (James Patterson). A daughter’s tale of living in 9780316490719 | $27.00 HC the thrall of her magnetic, Little, Brown and Company complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity. 9780358361329 | $16.99 PB Mariner Books
26 Summer Reading From the author of New York Times bestseller Utopia for Realists, comes a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in mankind’s success. 9780316418539 | $28.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
This book is inspired by the author’s travels throughout the Caribbean and West Africa as an Ifa priest. Here, readers will find hope, encouragement, and wisdom to sustain them on their souls’ journey. 9781982211578 | $13.99 PB 9781982211561 | $30.95 HC Balboa Press
Join gaming luminary Collis as he charts the rise of this exciting new industry, for the first time ever crafting a comprehensive overview of esports and its implications for human A continuation of the author’s first competition—and even the book, Pre 1949 Acupuncture, that future of humanity itself. looks at the more modern history of 9781948122573 | $25.99 HC acupuncture and Chinese Medicine RosettaBooks and shows how acupuncture has radically changed. 9781796009330 | $8.99 PB 9781796009347 | $21.99 HC Xlibris Au
2020 27 Bill Bryson meets Thomas Frank in the true story of how power-hungry politicians broke American democracy— and why fixing it is easier than people think—from the New York Times-bestselling author of Thanks, Obama. 9780062879363 | $28.99 HC Ecco Press
The #1 Sunday Times bestseller—a remarkable story of the heroic and unbreakable bond between a father and son that is as inspirational as The Tattooist of Auschwitz and as mesmerizing as The Choice. 9780063019294 | $17.99 PB Harper PBbacks
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Last House Guest comes a riveting new novel about a young woman plagued by night terrors after a childhood trauma, who wakes one evening to find a corpse at her feet. 9781501165429 | $26.99 HC 9781797105888 | $29.99 CD Simon & Schuster
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