Summer BOOK CLUB
Pull up a lawn chair—we’ve got seven books you won’t be able to resist this summer.
Author of Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid welcomes you to 1980s California in Malibu Rising (June 1, Ballantine), in which four siblings— the offspring of notorious singer/ playboy Mick Riva—throw their end-of-summer party. But before the ill-fated night goes up in flames, generations of secrets surface. $28
In the edgy, satirical thriller The Other Black Girl (June 1, Atria) by Zakiya Dalila Harris, Nella encounters microaggressions daily as her publishing company’s sole Black employee. But when another young Black woman is hired, hostility and menacing events begin. $27
Lisa Ta``eo’s first novel (a byproduct of reporting for her nonfiction bestseller Three Women), Animal (June 8, Avid Reader Press), captures supressed female rage when main character Joan transforms from prey to predator. $28
Alex Michaelides (The Silent Patient) is back with The Maidens (June 15, Celadon Books), a thriller set among the ancient halls of Cambridge University, where a psychotherapist is certain that a charismatic Greek tragedy professor (beloved by the all-female secret society the Maidens) is a murderer. $28
Paul McCartney and his daughters Mary and Stella honor their late wife and mother’s passion for meat-free meals in Linda McCartney’s Family Kitchen (June 29, Little, Brown and Company), a new cookbook with more than 90 plant-based recipes, including Linda’s “American-Style” Pancakes and Chili Non-Carne. $35
It’s a dusty state of affairs in Katie Crouch’s Embassy Wife (July 13, Farrar, Straus and Giroux), where two American women in Namibia—one the wife of a diplomat and the other a trailing spouse—learn the truth about their husbands, corruption, international conflict an` their own country. $27
Another rom-com addition to the Guillory-verse, While We Were Dating (July 13, Berkley) by Jasmine Guillory follows adman Ben and movie star Anna, who script a Hollywood romance for the sake of the spotlight. But when will they realize it’s no longer an act? $26 Available in bookstores and online