Sager can’t wait for these summer reads

With his fifth book, “Survive the Night,” author Riley Sager is trying to coax his followers to participate in #hotbooksummer and get it trending on social media.

“Some of my author friends and I have dubbed this hot book summer,” he said during a recent phone interview. “It’s just insane with all the books coming out, so we want to get that trending somewhere on Twitter, but it hasn’t caught on yet.”

With so many books recently published or coming soon, Sager listed the ones he’s the most excited to read while he soaks up the sunshine and warmer weather.

1 “Bath Haus” by P.J. Vernon (Doubleday) “With this one, they did send me an advance copy and I was like, well, who am I to say no? I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve heard it’s just like a white-knuckle read from start to finish. It’s about a guy who has this illicit hookup at a bathhouse, even though he’s married to this doctor. The person he hooks up with almost kills him and he can’t say anything because he wasn’t supposed to be there.”

2 “Razorblade Tears” by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books) “This one is about two fathers, one Black and one White, whose sons were lovers and they were murdered. Those fathers go on this quest for revenge and I just like this idea.”

3 “Falling” by T.J. Newman (Simon & Schuster) “You’ll be hearing a lot from T.J. Newman because she has this great story. She was a flight attendant and she came up with this idea for this book while working on a flight. So, the flight is full of people and the pilot has been told, ‘We have your family and we will kill them unless you crash this plane.’ I heard the premise alone and I was like, I am 100% jealous I didn’t come up with that.”

4 “Such aQuiet Place” by Megan Miranda (Simon & Schuster) “Megan Miranda is just so good and the sweetest person. In ‘Such a Quiet Place,’ there’s a murder in this quiet neighborhood, and the person that the whole neighborhood thinks did it returns. It looks really good.”

5 “The Husbands” by Chandler Baker (out Aug. 3 from Flatiron Books)

“I’ve been dying to get an advance copy of this … but I’ll wait like everyone else and I will buy it. It sounds like a variation on ‘The Stepford Wives,’ where it’s this neighborhood where all these women are wildly successful with all of these beautiful stay-at-home husbands. But there’s something sinister going on there and I can’t wait to find out what that is.”