Seven Days in June

by Tia Williams (Grand Central, $27)

“The roller-coaster ride of seeing an old flame is a story many can relate to,” said Leora Arnowitz in USA Today. In a novel that the Los Angeles Times has called the summer’s best romance, two successful Black authors who spent an intense week together as teenagers rekindle the flame after a chance meetup 20 years later. Because Seven Days is “filled with important observations and tidbits about Black life,” it gives readers “something that goes a step beyond the basic rom-com.”