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51 new books coming out June 3 – 9, 2025

By Kobo • June 03, 2025New eBooks and Audiobooks

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The new books we're most excited about this week

 

🧰 Help and How-to

Amplify: How to Use the Power of Connection to Engage, Take Action, and Build a Better World by Heather Landy - A guide to making more of an impact in support of the causes you care about.

Rick Steves Italy by Rick Steves

The Energetic Investor: Nurturing Mind, Body & Investment Mastery for Lasting Prosperity by Kevin Bambrough

Lean Learning: How to Achieve More by Learning Less by Pat Flynn

The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology by Thich Nhat Hanh

 

💡 Big Ideas

How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle by Ray Dalio

This Dog Will Change Your Life by Elias Weiss Friedman

Our Dear Friends in Moscow: The Inside Story of a Broken Generation by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov - Two Russian investigative journalists tell the story of how their optimistic generation that came up in 1990s has disappeared and been replaced by fear and betrayal reminiscent of the Soviet era.

The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals by Guido Palazzo, Ph.D and Ulrich Hoffrage, Ph.D

The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich by Evan Osnos

 

🗣 True Stories

Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life by Noraly Schoenmaker

How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir by Jacinda Ardern – The former prime minister of New Zealand tells the story of her extraordinary rise while offering wisdom and inspiration for the next generation.

A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After a Lifetime of Being Numb by Tiffany Jenkins

So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All by Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig

I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan

 

💘 Romance

It Takes a Psychic by Jayne Castle

An Unexpected Everything by Carrie Ann Ryan

Capricorn by Gemma James

Sunset by Sharon Sala

Over the Sea to Skye (The Skye Sisters Trilogy, Book 3) by Sue Moorcroft

Hockey 101 by Melanie Ting – An opposites-attract romance kicking off the new Monarch College series from Kobo Originals.

Ready to Score by Jodie Slaughter

 

🗡️ Crime, Mystery, and Action

Murder at Hambledon Hall by C.J. Archer

Death at Fakenham Races by Ross Greenwood

Yipped in the Yams by Dale Mayer

Stuart Woods' Finders Keepers by Brett Battles

Badlands by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Strange Houses by Uketsu - From the author of Strange Pictures, a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans, including a “dead space” hidden between its walls.

 

🖊️ Literary & Contemporary Fiction

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh – The daughter of Korean bodega owners sets her sights on one day attaining the luxuries of Fifth Avenue, and she just might reach that goal of she can win a case that will defend the reputation of a backbiting megarich family. But winning the case might mean losing her soul.

Parallel Linesby Edward St Aubyn

Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor

The Catch by Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

 

🩸 Horror

Hollow by Celina Myers – TikTok sensation Celina Myers tells the story of a woman whose turn into a vampire opens her destiny in ways she’d never imagined in her mortal life.

 

✨ Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction 

The Two Lies of Faven Sythe by Megan E. O'Keefe

Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A Song of Legends Lost by M. H. Ayinde - A reckless king implements an ill-fated plan to end a thousand-year war, unleashing a wave of revenge and rebellion.

The Lure of Their Graves by Laura R. Samotin

The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King

A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim

Best of All Worlds by Kenneth Oppel

Skipshock by Caroline O’Donoghue

Meet Me at the Crossroads by Megan Giddings

 

🗯 Manga & Graphic Novels

Gaysians by Michael Curato - From the acclaimed author of the young adult graphic novel Flamer, this is the story of four Asians and their experiences of love, identity, and queer chosen family.

Dandadan, Vol. 13 by Yukinobu Tatsu

Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 13 by Naoya Matsumoto

Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 44 by Mizuho Kusanagi

My Hero Academia, Vol. 41 by Kohei Horikoshi

Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu (Novel) Vol. 2 by Fei Tian Ye Xiang

 

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