COVER TO COVER
From buzzy novels and murder mysteries to a dishy Hollywood rom-com, July’s latest reads will have you turning pages all summer.
1 Upstate New York rich folks run amok in Shari Lapena’s Not a Happy Family (July 27, Pamela Dorman Books), about a murdered wealthy couple and their adult children who happen to be prime inheritance-seeking suspects. $27
2 A sought-after gated community is hiding some deep, dark secrets, but a new-to-the-neighborhood couple begins asking questions in The Therapist (July 13, St. Martin’s) by B.A. Paris. $28
3 For Schitt’s Creek fans, Tessa Bailey’s It Happened One Summer (July 13, Avon) follows a Hollywood wil` chil` exile` to a Pacific Northwest beach town after being cut off from her wealthy family. $28
4 A happily married 50-year-old must decide whether or not to upend her life after having an affair with her childhood love in Miranda Cowley Heller’s anticipated Cape Cod–set debut, The Paper Palace (Riverhead). $27
5 Both hopeful and heartbreaking, The People We Keep (Aug. 3, Gallery) by Allison Larkin follows a young songwriter in the ‘90s healing through music and searching for connection in the world. $27
6 Set at the iconic Lake Geneva Playboy Club in the 1980s, a young woman trades a church organ for the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle of a bunny in Christina Clancy’s Shoulder Season (St. Martin’s). $28
7 Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in She Who Became the Sun (July 20, Tor) by Shelley Parker-Chan, in which a young orphaned girl fated for “nothingness” under Mongol rule claims her brother's identity—and a chance at greatness. $28 —Megan O'Neill Melle
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