Every Book You Need To Read This Summer Is Out in June

With five Tuesdays of releases, June brings all your best summer reading. Let’s get right to it.

• Land — Maggie O’Farrell
  Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet and so much more) returns with a sweeping historical novel set in 19th-century Ireland. In this father-son novel mapping, land, family, empire, and Irish gods collide.
  Publisher: Knopf
  Release date: June 2, 2026
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• Ghost-Eye — Amitav Ghosh
  In his new Covid novel Ghosh blends reincarnation, Calcutta, Brooklyn, and family memory. If you liked Gun Island you will neither be surprised not disappointed by this typical late Ghosh.
  Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Release date: June 16, 2026
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• Whistler — Ann Patchett
  The perennially splendid Ann Patchett’s new novel centers on reconnection, memory, grief, and the strange permanence of formative childhood relationships.
  Publisher: Harper
  Release date: June 2, 2026
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• Sublimation — Isabel J. Kim
  I’ve heard lots of great whispers about this debut novel. She’s not really a newbie since she’s won many prizes for her short stories, but this is a longer take on immigration, identity, and what happens when crossing a border literally splits a person in two.
  Publisher: Tor Books
  Release date: June 2, 2026Order/Preorder (Bookshop)
• Daughters of the Sun and Moon — Lisa See
  See turns to post–Civil War Los Angeles and the lives of three Chinese women trying to survive and thrive in a turbulent, dangerous city.
  Publisher: Scribner
  Release date: June 2, 2026
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• Villa Coco — Andrew Sean Greer
  The Pulitzer Prize winner of Less sends a broke young narrator to a crumbling Tuscan villa, where friendship, secrets, art, and absurd duties pile up in madcap fashion. If you want to know more about focaccia, this is your summer reading.
  Publisher: Doubleday
  Release date: June 9, 2026
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• I Wanna Be Loved by You : Marilyn Monroe: A Life in 100 Takes — Andrew Wilson
  To celebrate the icon’s 100th birthday, a new biography jumps off others to provide insights and info on America’s tragic sweetheart.
  Publisher: Grand Central
  Release date: June 2, 2026
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• Swell — Son Bo-mi, translated by Janet Hong
  By all accounts a bonkers collection in the recent tradition of translating bonkers Korean culture for Americans. This story collection blurs biography, fiction, self-delusion, and alternate lives.
  Publisher: Two Lines Press
  Release date: June 9, 2026
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• In Every Possible Way — Alicia Thompson
  If you’ve seen The Tourist, you’ll recognize this. A whimsical contemporary romance with a speculative twist: after a terrible date and a head injury, Jess wakes up in Ireland with no passport, no phone, and one very inconveniently charming mechanic.
  Publisher: Berkley
  Release date: June 23, 2026
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• Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep — Paul Tremblay
  From the much feared (for his pen, not demeanor) Paul Tremblay comes a Philip K. Dick meets corporate AI horror novel set in a near-future nightmare about remote-controlling people in America.
  Publisher: William Morrow
  Release date: June 30, 2026
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• A Voice Like Mine — Deb Haaland
  From the ridiculous to the inspirational, a memoir from the former U.S. Interior Secretary and one of the first Native American women elected to Congress — politics, identity, and public service from the inside.
  Publisher: Henry Holt
  Release date: June 9, 2026
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• Pool House — Mary H.K. Choi
  This looks to be fun for summer, but I don’t know it. “Choi returns with a literary coming-of-age novel about friendship, ambition, family, and reinvention. Funny, emotionally sharp, and likely to be a major book-club title.”
  Publisher: Flatiron Books
  Release date: June 9, 2026
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• No Dumb Questions — Jason Kelce & Travis Kelce
  Soon to be Mr Taylor Swift and already an author! Travis Kelce’s life is not turning out the way he thought!The NFL’s most famous brothers turn their hit podcast into book form, mixing football stories, family history, fan questions, and plenty of sibling chaos.
  Publisher: William Morrow
  Release date: June 2, 2026
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  Songs of the Dead — Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian
  Sanderson has sold a lot of his IP to Apple, so expect to see shows soon. Here’s a new book of epic fantasy from two masters of the form. Ancient powers, impossible choices, and world-shaking consequences make this one of the biggest genre releases of the summer.
  Publisher: Saga Press
  Release date: June 16, 2026
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• You First — Caroline Kepnes
  I don’t know Joe Goldberg, but there are a lot of people who do. This is a prequel to Kepnes’s bestselling thriller universe in which he features. Before You, that is before Goldberg became one of contemporary fiction’s most notorious antiheroes, came this story.
  Publisher: Random House
  Release date: June 9, 2026
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