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Summer 2025 Book List
25
items All the genres of the best books to read by the pool, on the beach, or in your hammock!
Sections
5
Biographies
Fantasy
Mystery
Romance
Thriller
Biographies
These four women, each fascinating in her own right, together contributed to one of the most covert and successful military campaigns in WWII.
Propaganda Girls: Women in the OSS
In Story of a Murder, bestselling author of The Five and celebrated historian Hallie Rubenhold reexamines the events leading up to the infamous Crippen murder from the perspectives of the three women at the center of it all.
Story of a Murder: Dr. Crippen's Case
This book is the myth-shattering biography of a relationship that changed the cultural history of the world.
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs - Books
The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who died after an altercation with the police in 1983, from Elon Green, the Edgar Award-winning author of Last Call.
The Man Nobody Killed: Life and Art of Michael Stewart
A memoir of many threads, Firstborn Girls is an extraordinarily moving portrait of a life shaped by family, history, and the drive to be something more.
Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
Fantasy
Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn's next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch - she's a hunter.
The Bane Witch: A Novel
A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.
Dissolution: A Novel
From New York Times bestselling author of Dark and Shallow Lies comes a new southern gothic supernatural thriller about a teen girl in a small Ozark town who can hear the bones of the dead.
When the Bones Sing
In this gritty, haunting tale about doing whatever it takes for love, a small-town storyteller resolves to keep the local monster—and her own secrets—safe from a legendary knight.
The Knight and the Butcherbird: A Short Story
Mystery
A cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears 1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows.
Murder at Gulls Nest: A Novel - Kidd, Jess: Books
A restaurateur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic town in Georgia.
Gothictown
Rudolf Sebestyen is missing, and Marianne Smalls is involved in an illicit affair with the shady Jonas Schmitt.
Twice as Dead (City of Shadows Book 1)
A teen girl moves to a small town and discovers a mysterious wishing well possessed by La Cegua, a vengeful female spirit with the face of a horse skull, in Vanessa Montalban’s new YA fantasy standalone.
These Vengeful Wishes
Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century. Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke go...
The Frozen People: A Mystery
Romance
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster comes her adult debut novel Summer in the City—a swoony, fast-paced rom-com set in New York City in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again…
Summer in the City: A Novel
From the award-winning author of Flux comes a dazzling novel about love, family, and the art of sushi that asks: What if you could return to the point of a fateful choice, wiser than before, and find the courage to forge a new path?
I Leave It Up to You: A Novel
A timely and timeless reimagining of the story of Dionysus, Greek God of ecstasy and madness, revelry and ruin, for readers of The Song of Achilles and Elektra.
The Hymn to Dionysus
After years in San Jose, Jewel Benedict is going home to Oregon to help care for her father who has early onset dementia.
Welcome to the Honey B&B: A Clean Romance
When your nemesis is your next-door neighbor, falling for him is not part of the plan … but fate may have other ideas.
Misfortune and Mr. Right: a whimsical romance
Thriller
A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves.
Count My Lies: A GMA Book Club Pick!
From thriller writer Marshall Karp (cocreator with James Patterson of the #1 New York Times bestselling NYPD Red series), and rich with Karp’s deft array of three-dimensional characters and his signature biting humor, Don’t Tell Me How to Die has so ...
Don’t Tell Me How to Die: A Novel
For fans of Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder and Lisa Taddeo's Animal, Shy Girl is a harrowing tale of girlhood, survival, autonomy, and revenge.
Shy Girl
A novel that manages to explore and explain much of the devastating history that encompasses the relationship between Israel and Palestine—and shows it to us in a way that poignantly reveals the tragic human scale that is involved.
The Human Scale: A Novel
Five heirs. One island. A deadly game. A group of billionaires face the ultimate reckoning in this twisty psychological thriller.
The Game