Back Literature & Fiction | June Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  New Titles - Literature & Fiction
New title highlights is brought to you by New Book Alerts. If you would like to see all new titles for this category, click here
 
Heels of Steel: a novel about the queen of New York construction

Barbara Kavovit · MIRA
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback

She's shattering the glass ceiling, one building at a time.Bridget Steele's father taught her two things: how to build and how to fight. With those skills, she created her own company and began building for New York City's elite. Often the only woman in the room, she's faced...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Snakes: A Novel

Sadie Jones · Harper
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

"I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins," she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air."Recently married, psychologist Bea and Dan, a mixed-race artist, rent out their tiny flat to escape London...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Gone Dead: A Novel

Chanelle Benz · Ecco
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Surfside Sisters: A Novel

Nancy Thayer · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren't always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer....
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Summer Demands

Deborah Shapiro · Catapult
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Shapiro's The Summer Demands is sultry, shrewd, unnerving, and simply magnetic. I was hooked from beginning to end." -- Rebecca Kauffman, author of The GunnersOn the verge of her fortieth birthday and shaken by a recent miscarriage, Emily inherits an abandoned summer camp...
Read More check catalog
 
 
After the End

Clare Mackintosh · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

The breathtaking, emotional new novel from Clare Mackintosh. A story about impossible choices. A story about the strength and fragility of love.
Read More check catalog
 
 
How Could She: A Novel

Lauren Mechling · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

An assured and savagely funny novel about three old friends as they navigate careers, husbands, an ex- fiancé, new suitors, and, most importantly, their relationships with one another"I know these women; I am these women."--Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter"As wise...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Philosophy of Ruin: A Novel

Nicholas Mancusi · Hanover Square Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"An unforgettable debut. Mancusi is a writer to watch." -- Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel A young philosophy professor finds himself in the middle of a drug-running operation after his personal life derails in this taut, white-knuckle debut for fans...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Big Sky

Kate Atkinson · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

Iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie returns in a triumphant new novel about secrets, sex, and lies Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia....
Read More check catalog
 
 
I Know You: A Novel of Suspense

Annabel Kantaria · Crooked Lane Books
Format: Hardcover

A twisted domestic thriller in the vein of B. A. Paris and Shari Lapena that asks: How well do you know your friends?That picture you posted? I've seen it.That location you tagged?I've been there. I know everything about your life . . .And I'm going to destroy it.A recent transplant...
Read More check catalog