The 13 Best New Books to Read This Summer

Margot has lived her whole life with a secret and as a secret: She's the illegitimate daughter of a French politician and a famous actress. When she decides to expose her family's truth to her lover, a journalist, she sets into motion a chain of events she could have never imagined. Drumming with tension, The Margot Affair grapples with the complexity of familial love. 

Available June 16. 

Marie Claire's latest book club pick is a heartwarming mosaic of a family throughout time. It begins when Astrid, the matriarch of the family, witnesses a car accident, which releases a repressed memory she's stored away for years.  

Available now. 

The lives of two women— one, a lonely mom adjusting to a new suburban life and the other, her babysitter—  become intertwined. Akin to Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age, J. Courtney Sullivan's Friend's and Strangers exposes fraught truths about power dynamics, class, and privilege. 

Available June 30. 

A year after her father disappeared to a remote mediation center, 16-year-old Olivia runs away to find him, and encounters a strange group of girls who are determined to learn to levitate.  It's a glistening, emotionally charged portrait of a girl growing up. 

Available June 16. 

With equal parts wit and aching authenticity,  Jean Kyoung Frazier's bold debut is an almost anti-coming-of-age portrait. In it, a pregnant teenage pizza girl becomes obsessed with a mom she delivers a pickle pizza to every week. 

Available June 9. 

A pair of twin sisters escape a small, unforgiving town and for the first time in their lives, they split up. One starts passing as white in L.A. (where her husband knows nothing of her past), and the other ends up back in the town she once tried to leave, though of course, their story as a pair isn't over just yet... 

Available June 2. 

Naoise Dolan's debut shows a love triangle like you've never seen it before when Ava, a Irish millennial who just moved to Hong Kong, gets involved with a male banker and a female lawyer.  Wry and sardonic, Dolan relentlessly examines untold truths about love, classicism, and ambition.  

Available now. 

Five very different women have one thing in common: They are all being watched by a vicious series killer. Inverting the classic cat-and-mouse style, Ivy Pochoda's masterful page-turner rocks with tension. 

Available now. 

From the literary sensation  behind the anonymous twitter account @DuchessGoldblatt comes a life-affirming memoir packed with hilarity and candid observations about life and love. 

Available July 7. 

In this wonderfully weird read, a woman gets a visit from her late grandmother, in the form of a parakeet, one week before her wedding (and, duh, tells her not to go through with it). A singular, stunning novel from an author who is unafraid of sounding different. 

Available June 2. 

Emma Donoghue's latest is getting an early release, and it's clear to understand why: In 1918 at the height of the Great Flu in Ireland, sick, pregnant women are quarantined together in a hospital while a group of overworked nurses tries to navigate their patients through the darkness. 

Available July 21. 

Capture summer (even if you can't leave your house) with a tender read dripping in easy nostalgia. In Charlotte Wood's quiet novel, three women in their 70's reunite for a weekend at the beach after the death of a friend. 

Available August 4. 

In Ottessa Moshfegh's highly anticipated new novel, a woman becomes obsessed with solving a murder... that might never have happened in the first place. Profane and unnerving, Moshfegh wields her incomparable wit, solidifying her position as the literary voice of the year. 

Available June 23. 

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