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Hello and happy Monday friends! If you're anything like me, then you have been on your reading grind for 2024. So far I've read a total of 20 book for the year and that is more than I read for the last five yours total I think. With summer here and gearing up, I thought it would be fun to put together a list of the most anticipated reads for the summer. Below are 30 of the most popular up and coming books that you can add to your TBR Pile for this summer.
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What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill - June 4, 2024
A leading voice in the trauma healing movement has mapped out the ways individuals can heal themselves and in turn, heal the world around them. In the midst of an exceedingly tumultuous time in history, this book directs its audience to take charge of their own ability to thrive in an effort to up level the collective.
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But How Are You, Really by Ella Dawson - June 4, 2024
A burned-out bi-sexual is struggling to keep the small pieces of her life intact. Charlotte’s career is stalled, her passions, on simmer, and she’s lost all touch with her chosen queer family. When her demanding tech boss forces her to follow him back to her college campus where he’s giving a commencement speech, the feelings and people she’s been avoiding are slammed back into her life. Including, Reece, the hockey player she ghosted back in the day. This trip down memory lane could either be the event that gets her out of a rut or her complete undoing.
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Husbands by Mo Fanning - June 9, 2024
Kyle is a single, out-of-work actor living at home when he gets a call that could change his life. Apparently, he unwittingly married a top Hollywood director during a drunken night in Vegas six years ago and now he’s riding that mistake to the top. The glamour, however, is quickly undercut when Kyle discovers an underbelly to LA that involves abuse allegations and underage sex parties. Now he’s on a mission to find the truth and himself.
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One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon - June 11, 2024
In Nicola Yoon’s adult fiction debut, a Black utopian society isn’t all that it seems. In Liberty, California, Jasmyn and King are supposed to be living a life of ease and peace, though King settles in Jasmyn is put off by the obsessive wellness culture that seems a shallow substitute for the social justice and activism she was hoping to find. With friends who are equally frustrated with the placid tone, she begins to uncover that this place may hold secrets that could destroy her world.
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The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center - June 11, 2024
Emma has been trying to break into the screenwriting biz for a long time and she may finally get her chance when she’s offered the opportunity to re-write a script with her hero. Leaving her sister to care for their ailing father, she takes off for LA for six weeks in pursuit of what she hopes is her big break. The problem? Charles Yates is no hero and he could care less about their project. It’s Emma’s job to not only convince him that this rom-com could be great, but she finds herself taking the job perhaps a little too far when a kiss takes the task off the page and into her love life.
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Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe - June 11, 2024
For Margo, things have gone from tough, to impossible. When an affair with her English professor leaves her pregnant and alone, she is running out of options for taking care of her child as a single mom. That’s when she turns to OnlyFans as a quick cash option. Using the showmanship tools she gleaned from being the daughter of a pro-wrestler, she quickly builds an audience (and a bank account). But as her money problems are solved, she must grapple with the online fame and the offline realities.
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What Fire Brings by Rachel Howzell Hall - June 11, 2024
Bailey has just taken a job as the writer-in-residence to thriller author Jack Beckham. She’s supposed to be there helping him hit the bestseller list again, but she has her own motivations. Bailey is there to find Sam Morris who, along with other women, has disappeared in the canyon near Jack’s home. As she does her job, she finds herself entangled in her own, real-life thriller plot where she could very well become the next victim.
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Middle of the Night by Riley Sager - June 18, 2024
When Ethan and his best friend fell asleep in a tent in the backyard at ten-years-old, Ethan woke to find Billy missing. He was taken, never to be seen again. Now, thirty years later, Ethan has been forced to return home and the mystery comes crashing down on him. In the middle of the night, Ethan is seeing strange things that remind him of Billy. Maybe it’s Billy himself? Left with no choice, Ethan seeks to solve the case of friend’s disappearance and as he unravels the details the stakes become increasingly more dangerous.
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Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi - June 18, 2024
After a couple splits, one of them decides to attend a sex party where one decision will upend their lives forever. Thrown into the corrupt and dangerous underground world of a Nigerian city, they must try to escape the threat of an elite underbelly they were never meant to see.
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The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley - June 18, 2024
In a twisty, locked room whodunnit, opening weekend at the Manor is filled with two things: murder and a laundry list of suspects. Each guest and employee has the motive, but who committed the crime?
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Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi - June 25, 2024
In the thrilling final book of the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy, Zélie thought the battle had been won, but when she’s captured and thrown in a cage, her greatest challenge still lies ahead. King Baldyr is willing to burn the world to get to Zélie, forcing her to form unexpected allies in the effort save her people from annihilation.
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A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston - June 25, 2024
Eileen uses her HEA romance novels as an escape from her admittedly un-romantic life as a woman who was left at the alter. On her way to book club retreat, her car breaks down and she finds herself in the quaint, fictional town of her favorite romance series. The author’s death left the storyline unfinished and she’s convinced she’s there to help them to get their ending. But the unfamiliar, handsome (and grumpy) bookstore owner has no interest in letting her do that.
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The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali - July 2, 2024
Spanning three decades of friendship, The Lion Women of Tehran Ellie and Homa. As girls, they form a tight bond, but when Ellie has the opportunity to ascend into the elite class, leaving Homa behind. But when their world’s collide again, something transpires that will change the course of their lives forever and ripple across time.
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The God of the Woods by Liz Moore - July 2, 2024
In 1975, a camp counselor wakes in the morning to discover a camper is missing. She’s the wealthy daughter of the family who owns the summer camp. And she’s not the first of their children to disappear. Following the disappearance of the two Van Laar children, the story is a twisty tale of class, community and secrets.
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This Used to Be Us by Renée Carlino - July 9, 2024
When their 22-year marriage ends, Danielle and Alex decide to co-parent by swapping living in the house and sharing an apartment. As the two go through the grief of divorce and reflect on what led them from blissfully in love to this, they will pick up the pieces of their lives while still struggling to fully let go.
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Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle - July 9, 2024
In this genre-busting, Hollywood horror, Misha has finally reached what feels like the peak of his film career. But executives have a plan for his long-running series: kill off all the gay characters. Misha isn’t ready to play ball, but in la-la land you either get in line or get out. And now, the slashers from his horror film days have come to haunt him.
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All This and More by Peng Shepherd - July 9, 2024
Marsh has hit midlife and things aren’t going well. Career, marriage, and motherhood are all bleak if not failing endeavors. So when she lands on a a game show where contestants get to use quantum technology to rewrite every choice they’ve ever made, it feels like her luck is about to chance. Marsh becomes a successful lawyer, starts over with her high school sweetheart and though everything seems to be improving, she can’t shake the feeling that something about this technology is off.
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The Hollywood Assistant by May Cobb - July 9, 2024
Cassidy just took a job as a personal assistant to a Hollywood director and his actress wife. As she steps into the Sterling’s luxurious world, she and the husband begin to grow close. Too close. When one of them is murdered, Cassidy finds herself in the middle of an investigation.
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The Design of Us by Sajni Patel - July 16, 2024
Sunny and Bhanu are classic “grumpy x sunshine” pair. Co-workers competing for a promotion at work, they can’t stand each other, and yet they’ve both somehow ended up in Hawai’i. When Bhanu bails Sunny out of an awkward ex confrontation by pretending they are dating, both are thrown into pretending for the trip, but will this fake relationship turn into something real before they return home?
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It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier - July 16, 2024
A one night stand that feels like something more is not what Eva and Jonathan were planning on. Neither has the time or the job that would allow for more. But they see each other anyways six months later because both are contract killers, and Eva has been hired to eliminate Jonathan.
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Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts by Adam Sass - July 16, 2024
Grant is cursed to never have another romantic relationship work out due to a miscast wish when he was young. Now, after his most recent dumping, he is spending the summer helping fix up a B&B at a vineyard. Little did he know that his first crush and first heartbreak has also been hired. As they two reconnect, can Grant find a way to overcome his curse?
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Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio - July 23, 2024
When Catalina is admitted to Harvard she is exposed to the elite subcultures of higher education from literary journals to secret societies. As a child who escaped death in Latin America and lives with her undocumented grandparents in Queens, she observes the world with fascination and skepticism as she inches towards life on the other side of college.
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Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve by Drew Afualo - July 30, 2024
Influencer and podcaster Drew Afualo has risen to online fame by taking misogyny to task. In this memoir/manifesto/manual, she shows women how to own their power and claim the life they deserve. She creates a space where women and femmes can find their place in the world despite all that they are standing up against.
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And So I Roar by Abi Daré - August 6, 2024
Tia has just overheard fragments of a family secret that her dying has confessed to her aunt. Adunni, has just found shelter and the opportunity to be educated while living with Tia after running away from her home in Lagos. When a knock comes at their door, Tia has to decide between Adunni and discovering her family’s decades-held secret and Adunni is faced with the challenge of bringing opportunity to the young women of her village.
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House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen - August 6, 2024
When the nanny is found dead, everyone is a suspect. Nine-year-old Rose is the only witness to the crime, but she isn’t speaking. Her family is embroiled in a bitter divorce and when attorney Stella Hudson is brought into the mix, she finds herself trapped in a web of lies. Entrenched in her own trauma, Stella is determined to find out who killed the nanny and not even the child is off the table in the menagerie of potential murderers.
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The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - August 6, 2024
Playing Salome is a career-making role, so when unknown Mexican actress Vera Larios lands it, she becomes the interest and envy of those around her, especially Nancy Hartley. As the two compete for the top, amidst the scandalous intrigue of LA, the story also dives into the background of princess Salome, the real woman who inspired the character.
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The Pairing by Casey McQuiston - August 6, 2024
Theo and Kit are exes, but they’ve also been childhood best friends, crushes and lovers. After a terrible breakup on a European vacation, they’ve spent years apart. Now, they both hold expiring tickets to a wine tour they never made it to and unbeknownst to each of them, they are booked to go to the same one. Instead of sipping wine angrily, they cast a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their tour guide first, and why not a full blown hookup competition? But as they make their way through France, Italy and Spain, something undeniable resurfaces.
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout - August 13, 2024
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout is returning with a hopeful novel of friendship, love and desire. Returning to Crosby, Maine and her beloved cast of characters, we find Bob Burgess, the town lawyer, caught up in an evolving murder investigation. He’s developed a deep friendship with Lucy Barton, an acclaimed writer, who herself has developed a friendship with the retired Olive Kitteridge. Through storytelling and friendship the characters uncover the depth of relationships.
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You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto - August 20, 2024
Meredith helped Aspen achieve the influencer superstardom that now outshines her own. So who could blame when she engages in a little stalking and sabotage. As for Aspen, she can’t figure out why her perfectly filter online life is the only good thing she has. She’s being dropped by sponsors, ghosted and even her husband seems to despise her. With Meredith missing and threats piling, this influencer vs. influencer thriller is bound to get dirty outside the comment section.
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By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult - August 20, 2024
In a dual timeline exploration of the power of women’s creativity and the way their endeavors are overshadowed by men comes the tale of two female writers, centuries apart. Melina Green is trying to get her play to the stage, but knows it’s unlikely so her best friend submits her work under a male pseudonym. Emilia Bassano is a ward of English aristocrats, highly skilled in storytelling, but invisible because of her sex and the era she lives in. She hatches a plan to get her work to an audience by enlisting the help of a young actor: William Shakespeare.
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Well that's all for today! I hope you have a great start to your week. Come back tomorrow for another fun post.
Have a wonderful day,
Jackie
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