47 new books coming out June 17 – 23, 2025

By Kobo • June 17, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

The new books we're most excited about this week

🧰 Help and How-to

Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age by Shannon Watts

Upside Down Cooking: LAYER, BAKE, FLIP A Brand New Way to Cook in One Tray by Dominic Franks

💡 Big Ideas

The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea by Helen Lewis – Interweaving research with her signature wit and lightness, BBC podcast host Helen Lewis dissects past and present ideas of what it means to be a “genius”, and reveals a complex and inspiring picture of human creativity that draws on the efforts and brilliance of many.

Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet by Kate Marvel

Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term by Nicholas Chesterley

Top Ten Ideas of Physics: Foundations for Understanding the Universe by Anthony Zee

🗣 True Stories

Wildfire Days: A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West by Kelly Ramsey – The story of a woman who joined a crew of elite mountain firefighters, and what she learns about herself and the power of the fires she fights.

We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade by Elyce Arons

Behind the Badge: Answering the Call to Serve on America's Homefront by Johnny Joey Jones

Hit Girls: Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade by Nora Princiotti

💘 Romance

Painted in Love (The Maverick Billionaires, Book 10) by Bella Andre and Jennifer Skully

Avenging Angels: Tenderfoot by Kristen Ashley

Scatter the Bones by Autumn Jones Lake

The Complication with the Best Man by Piper Rayne

Dance of Wings by Jamie A. Waters

Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston – An in-demand hitmaking songwriter and a musician jaded by the industry find an unlikely connection in their pursuit of one perfect melody.

Zanderby Dale Mayer

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Cold Truth by Toni Anderson

Jack Rabbit by Diane Capri

Murder Under A Mystic Moon by Abigail Keam

Snake in the Grave by A.J. Scudiere

Fatal Series Compendium by Marie Force

The Rushworth Family Plot by Claudia Gray – Amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney uncover a murderous scheme involving the Bertram family.

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

The Poppy Fieldsby Nikki Erlick

Next To Heavenby James Frey

When Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Yin

These Heathensby Mia McKenzie

Girls Girls Girls by Shoshana von Blanckensee

How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle – This historical novel with a satirical bite follows Anders, a hapless young man who at the start of the Civil War channels his passion to find a cause worth dying for into enlisting as flag-twirler for the Union, but then he decides to try on the passion of the South as a Confederate after he’s captured in battle—just in time to fight at Gettysburg.

🩸 Horror

Unclaimed Property by Cat Delani

The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery by Clarence A. Haynes - A fast-paced, sexy, ghostly adventure, a publicist at the top of her game must confront her secret mystical past.