When it comes to summer reads, it’s a bumper crop,

It’s been an interesting year so far in the books industry. Many titles that were supposed to come out in the spring were moved to the summer and fall. Which means that there’s an exceptionally robust books offering for readers right now — with everything from thrillers to true crime to biography.

Here, I’ve rounded up some I’ve had a chance to look at and others I’m really looking forward to. Several come out Sept. 1 — but even then we’ve got a few weeks left of summer. Time enough to luxuriate with a good book or three. This Red Line Goes Straight To Your Heart, by Madhur Anand (McClelland & Stewart, June 30): This one is just out from a University of Guelph professor who is both a poet and an ecologist, who has delved into her parents’ lives with this experimental memoir. It’s got two covers: read it one way and you hear the voices of her parents; turn it upside down and you hear the voice of the daughter of immigrants. A powerful and moving story about immigration — and about the tension between art and science.

July Still Here, by Amy Stuart (Simon & Schuster, July 7): Summer wouldn’t be the same without a pile of good psychological thrillers waiting to be read. Toronto writer Stuart has created a following with her previous two books in the genre: “Still Mine” and “Still Water.” This latest, linked by title though it also stands alone, features PI Clare O’Dey who is on the hunt for two missing persons. Could it be that she’s being hunted, too? Enough shivers to cool you down on a hot day. County Heirlooms, Recipes and Reflections from Prince Edward County, by Natalie Wollenberg and Leigh Nash (Invisible Publishing, July 10): A really good cookbook isn’t only about the recipes; it’s about how the authors talk about food and the insights they share about how food informs our lives. This one’s got 42 interviews and favourite recipes from the county near Belleville, Ont., with beekeepers, restaurateurs and growers, among others. A lovely celebration of local food you can prepare yourself. Memoirs and Misinformation, by Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon (Penguin Random House Canada, July 14): Not what you’d expect from the comedian, perhaps: this is a novel, loosely disguised as a memoir (the main character’s name is Jim Carrey), about a Hollywood i con who has somehow lost himself along the way. It features cameos and supporting parts from all sorts of Tinsel Town A-listers (Nic Cage, Gwyneth Paltrow, Quentin Tarantino), a twisting plot line, a whole lotta Netflix, skewers aplenty and obscure Canadian mentions that’ll have you laughing in recognition. The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins, July 21): A new book by Irish Canadian Donoghue is always an occasion to be celebrated. This one is set in 1918 Dublin amidst the Spanish Flu, in the maternity ward of a city centre hospital, where the pregnant patients, doctors and nurses have a profound affect on each other. This one is timely as well as impeccably researched and immensely readable, as always with Donoghue. The Answer Is …: My Reflections on My Life, by Alex Trebek (Simon & Schuster, July 21): He’s in our living rooms every night and has been for years; but even with that feeling of familiarity we haven’t really known the host of “Jeopardy!” He’s always been a very private person, but the public outpouring of affection following his diagnosis of stage four pancreatic cancer last year finally convinced him to share his story. It’s one of the most highly anticipated books of the summer. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, by Sarah Weinman (HarperCollins, July 28): Reading about true crime and trying to understand what compels people to give in to their dark sides is always popular. And Weinman, who wrote “The Real Lolita,” has a wonderful sense of story. She’s pulled together some of the best true crime writing going right now in this anthology. Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey (HarperCollins, July 28): Trethewey was the U.S. poet laureate in both 2012 and 2013, and also won a Pulitzer Prize. But this story is personal. Trethewey grew up in Mississippi, the daughter of a Black mother and a white Canadian father — their marriage was illegal in the early ’60s, but they married anyway. They divorced when Trethewey was a girl. Then, when she was 19, her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. This book tells a story informed by domestic abuse, and how it shaped Trethewey’s life and artistry.

August Luster: A Novel, by Raven Leilani (Doubleday Canada, Aug. 4): This is a debut novel in which Edie, a young Black woman, is trying to create a life in the world of art — and stumbles into someone’s open marriage along the way. Described as “sharp, comic, disruptive, tender” and “a portrait of a young woman trying to make sense of her life in a tumultuous era” it’s one I’m looking forward to.

Cascade, by Craig Davidson (Penguin Random House Canada, Aug. 18): Davidson is such a versatile writer it’s a delight to see what he’s going to come up with next. He’s written nonfiction, literary fiction and, under his alter ego Nick Cutter, horror. This is his first book of short stories since his wildly successful “Rust and Bone” (from which a Golden Globenominated movie was made). These six stories look at family relationships in the magical Niagara Falls setting he knows so well.

Rabbit Foot Bill, by Helen Humphreys (HarperCollins, Aug. 18): Humphreys writes beautifully whether she turns her hand to fiction or nonfiction. Her latest novel is based on a true story: Leonard Flint, as a young boy in Saskatchewan, meets and becomes close friends with a “tramp” called Rabbit Foot Bill. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, Bill commits murder and goes to prison. Leonard and Bill are reunited years later, with Leonard as a psychiatrist, trying to understand what happened. Gripping, beautiful. The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed by Globalization, by Jeff Rubin (Penguin Random House Canada, Aug. 22): Rubin is the former chief economist of CIBC, but lately he’s been writing, including the bestselling “Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller.” This time, he takes on the disappearance of the middle class and how the populist movement, including Brexit and Trump, will change the developed world. Described as a book that “dovetails with the ideas of both Naomi Klein and Donald Trump.” Indians on Vacation, by Thomas King (HarperCollins, Aug. 25): From the first page, King’s sardonic and very funny voice leads us to places we never expect to go. This time: to Prague. Bird and Mimi have headed there after Mimi found a bunch of old postcards sent by her Uncle Leroy who, a century ago, took with him on his travels the family medicine bundle. European and Indigenous history collide and there’s no one better to examine the aftermath.

AHistory of My Brief Body, by BillyRay Belcourt (Penguin Random House Canada, Aug. 25): Literary wunderkind Belcourt won the prestigious Griffin Prize for his poetry; now he’s out with a memoir that is already garnering rapturous praise.

He remembers his early life in Alberta through growing up, first loves and sexual exploration. “What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward.”

Forest Green, by Kate Pullinger (Doubleday Canada, Aug. 25): A beautiful novel set in B.C., it explores the life of Arthur Lunn, a homeless man seen sitting on a Vancouver sidewalk in 1995. This is the story of how he got there — via a life in the Second World War, logging camps and love affairs.

September TIFF: A Life of Timothy Findley, by Sherrill Grace ( Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Sept. 1): Findley is one of this country’s most beloved authors, and this biography is a deep and intimate look at his life: his family, his friendships, his acting (he began his career as an actor in London, England). Biographer Grace had access to his private journals, interviews and archives; a truly thorough and enjoyable biography.

Blaze Island, by Catherine Bush (Goose Lane Editions, Sept. 1): I remember reading Bush’s first book, “Minus Time,” way back in 1994. Now she’s published four novels to critical acclaim and reader affection. Her fifth and newest is described as “climatethemed, Shakespeare-inspired”; it takes place in the North Atlantic, on an island hit by a Category 5 hurricane, and features a small cast of compelling, interesting characters. As is usual, what’s going on outside is as important as what’s going on inside. The Residence, by Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster, Sept. 1): Countless publications have touted Toronto’s Pyper as the next Stephen King. Which tells you just how talented a horror writer he is. This new book is as timely as it is scary: a ghost story set in the White House of the 1850s and based on true events. Noopiming: The Cure For White Ladies, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (House of Anansi, Sept. 1): Near Lakefield, in the area of Peterborough, is where Susanna Moodie experienced the life she made famous in “Roughing It in the Bush.” Curve Lake, Buckhorn, Peterborough have long been topics of Betasamosake Simpson’s work and where she lives. “Noopiming,” which is Anishinaabemowin for “in the bush,” is her response to the English settler’s book. An image I love? “Adik’s favourite sound is ten thousand hooves hitting the ice. Imagine. You can’t even.” We Two Alone, by Jack Wang (House of Anansi, Sept. 1): This is a wildly anticipated debut work from Wang. The stories in this collection are set on five continents and span nearly a century, tracing the long arc of the Chinese immigrant experience and dramatizing the Chinese diaspora around the globe.