57 new eBooks and audiobooks coming out June 29 - July 12
Welcome back to New & Hot Reads, where we gather up some of the most anticipated eBooks and audiobooks coming out now
Back in 2013, Rainbow Rowell published her 3rd novel, Fangirl, a book about Cath and Wren, twins headed off to college where Wren’s looking to make new friends and not spend every minute with her sister. Meanwhile, Cath takes refuge in the world of Simon Snow, a fictional character from a fictional series of books. (Check out our interview with the author from 2013.) Fans were so taken with Cath’s fandom they clamoured for actual Simon Snow novels they could read themselves -- and so Rainbow Rowell set about writing the Simon Snow novels: Carry On, followed by Wayward Son, and concluding now with Any Way the Wind Blows. If you loved Harry Potter, but wanted more of a YA romance feel, you’re overdue to check out this now-complete trilogy.
Chris Stuck’s debut story collection Give My Love to the Savages deploys biting humour to tell hard truths about race in America. Across nine stories he ventures across the country and all over the socio-economic and political spectrum, crafting characters in situations that feel fresh, but also familiar. These stories join Mateo Askaripour’s Black Buck from earlier this year in what might be a growing trend in Black satire.
Robin DiAngelo became a household name last summer when her book White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism became a smash bestseller. In that book she explained the concept and identity of whiteness as it pertains to discussions about race, and demarcated racism from personal preferences and everyday interactions. In her new book Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm DiAngelo seems to be taking aim directly at her book-buying audience and hammering home the points she raised in White Fragility: arguing that there are a number of seemingly benign or even benevolent actions and attitudes that not only fail to counteract racism, but perpetuate it. As with her previous book, DiAngelo isn’t hectoring or high-handed -- she frankly describes her own missteps -- but rather empathetic to her audience’s perspective, while staying firm on her anti-racist principles. As we all head back out into the world this summer, Nice Racism seems like a timely refresher for understanding racism as a social force.
Matt Haig’s very brief new book, The Comfort Book, is one you’ll want to have on hand if you’re feeling at all anxious about … anything, really. It’s a collection of tiny stories and observations to help readers find a sense of hope. Haig’s not new to this area: his books Notes on a Nervous Planet and Reasons to Stay Alive each in their own way deal with anxiety, stress, and the will to carry on. Because every one of us deserves to feel hope.
More books coming out June 29 - July 12
💭 Big Ideas
- The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
- Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice by Vanessa Zoltan
- Curbing Traffic by Chris Bruntlett
- This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
- Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
🗣 True Stories
- Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir
- Love or Die Trying: How I Lost It All, Died, and Came Back for Love by Bob Ramsay
- Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta
- Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department by Elie Honig
- Stories to Tell: A Memoir by Richard Marx
- Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood by Danny Trejo
- Till the End by CC Sabathia
- How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood by Trystan Reese
- Vessel: A Memoir by Chongda Cai
💘 Romance
- Nine Lives by Danielle Steel
- The Sixth Wedding by Elin Hilderbrand
- Someone to Cherish by Mary Balogh
- Freed by Helen Hardt
- If We Never Met by Barbara Freethy
- Murder at Sunrise Lake by Christine Feehan
- Kitty Kitty by Lani Lynn Vale
- When Stars Collide by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Just One Scandal by Carly Phillips
- Incense and Sensibility by Sonali Dev
- One Week to Claim It All by Adriana Herrera
- Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
🗡️ Thrillers, Crime fiction, and Mystery
- The Bone Code by Kathy Reichs
- Stealth Attack by John Gilstrap
- Cross My Heart by D.K. Hood
- The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
- Fallen by Linda Castillo
- A Pumpkin Spice Killing by Lynn Cahoon
- An Irish Hostage by Charles Todd
- The Gossip by Nancy Bush
- The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
- Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
🖊️ Literary Fiction
- The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
- All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
- Together We Will Go by J. Michael Straczynski
- Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
- Rock the Boat by Beck Dorey-Stein
- Lorna Mott Comes Home by Diane Johnson
- Island Queen by Vanessa Riley
- Give My Love to the Savages by Chris Stuck
✨ Fantastical tales of Other Worlds and Other Times
- Cast in Conflict by Michelle Sagara
- Capture the Crown by Jennifer Estep
- For Lord and Land by Matthew Harffy
- Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
- Vengeful Darkness by Sarra Cannon
- Star Wars: The Rising Storm (The High Republic) by Cavan Scott
- Zombie Fallout 16: Hiraeth by Mark Tufo
- Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
- Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta
- This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
- We're All Mad Here by Shayna Krishnasamy
- The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry
- The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel Jose Older
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