"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn

The summer's great pleasures are hard to oversell. Sitting by the water, cooking and eating outside, and spending time in the garden rank among my favorites, but nothing beats having long sunny afternoons to get lost in a book. Hopefully your summer will include every delight you wish for and a pile of good books to read. Perhaps you'll find some of those books below. Here is a list of books being published this summer that we expect to be popular with our members. Though the Library is currently closed, the staff continues to work to order books, both for our ebook platform and for when we are able to open again. You may place reserves on any of these titles. The most popular among these will made available in our Cloud Library ebook collection. If there is something you're looking forward to reading, but don't find it here or in the Library's catalog, simply request it from the Acquisitions Department by using the Suggest a Purchase form on our website.

Due to the current situation, some publishers have chosen to delay publication of anticipated titles until later in the year, so release dates are subject to change.

June

FICTION

• Bennett, Brit | The Vanishing Half
• Brett, Simon | Clutter Corpse
• Cotterill, Colin | The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot
• Gessen, Masha | Surviving Autocracy
• Giffin, Emily | The Lies That Bind
• Jance, J. A. | Credible Threat
• Jonasson, Ragnar | The Mist
• Hill, Katherine | A Short Move
• King, Laurie R. | Riviera Gold
• Kwan, Kevin | Sex and Vanity
• Macintosh, Sophie | Blue Ticket
• McPhee, Martha | An Elegant Woman
• Majumdar, Megha | A Burning
• Miranda, Megan | The Girl from Widow Hills
• Moshfegh, Ottessa | Death in Her Hands
• Nesser, Håkan | The Summer of Kim Novak
• Oates, Joyce Carol | Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars
• Paretsky, Sara | Love and Other Crimes
• Paris, B.A. | The Dilemma
• Qiu Xiaolong | Hold Your Breath, China
• Ramsay, Caro | The Red, Red Snow
• Robards, Karen | The Black Swan of Paris
• Sager, Riley | Home Before Dark
• Spencer, Scott | An Ocean Without a Shore
• Steiner, Susie | Remain SIlent
• Sullivan, J. Courtney | Friends and Strangers

​NONFICTION

• Basbanes, Nicholas A. | Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Bolton, John | The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
• Gates, Robert M. | Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
• Moore, Wayétu | The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

July 

FICTION

• Atkins, Ace | The Revelators
• Buckley, Christopher | Make Russia Great Again
• Delany, J.P. | Playing Nice
• Donoghue, Emma | The Pull of the Stars
• Giordano, Paolo | Heaven and Earth
• Griffiths, Elly | The Lantern Men
• James, Peter | Find Them Dead
• Kaufman, Charlie | Antkind
• Lacey, Catherine | Pew
• Lansdale, Joe R. | More Better Deals
• Lapena, Shari | The End of Her
• Li, Yiyun | Must I Go
• O’Farrell, Maggie | Hamnet
• McCall Smith, Alexander | The Geometry of Holding Hands
• Martin, Andrew | Cool for America
• Merkin, Daphne | 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love
• Mitchell, David | Utopia Avenue
• Robotham, Michael | When She Was Good
• Silva, Daniel | The Order
• Spencer, Sally | Daughters of Darkness
• Thor, Brad | Near Dark
• Tsukiyama, Gail | The Color of Air
• van den Berg, Laura | I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
• Watson, Larry | The Lives of Edie Pritchard

​​NONFICTION

• Appelbaum, Anne | Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
• Baker, Nicholson | Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
• Bowden, Mark | The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories
• Fletcher, Catherine | The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
• Slimani, Leila | Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World
• Stone, Oliver | Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game
• Trethewey, Natasha | Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir

August 

FICTION

• Billingham, Mark | Cry Baby
• Bowen, Rhys | The Last Mrs. Summers
• Boyne, John | A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom
• Burke, James Lee | A Private Cathedral
• Carter, Betsy | Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn
• Davis, Fiona | The Lions of Fifth Avenue
• Emezi, Akwaeke | The Death of Vivek Oji
• Feldman, Ellen | Paris Never Leaves You
• Hall, Araminta | Imperfect Women
• Hegi, Ursula | The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls
• Hiaasen, Carl | Squeeze Me
• Johnson, Daisy | Sisters
• Livesey, Margot | The Boy in the Field
• Lovesey, Peter | The Finisher
• Martin, Valerie | I Give It to You
• Mina, Denise | Less Dead
• Minot, Susan | Why I Don’t Write
• Osborne, Lawrence | The Glass Kingdom
• Parker, T. Jefferson | Then She Vanishes
• Ryan, Hank Phillippi | The First to Lie
• Slaughter, Karin | The Silent Wife
• Smith, Ali | Summer
• White, Edmund | A Saint from Texas
• Yehoshua, A.B. | The Tunnel

​NONFICTION

• Andersen, Kurt | Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
• Ball, Edward | Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
• Macdonald, Helen | Vesper Flights
• Parini, Jay | Borges and Me: An Encounter
• Perlstein, RIck | Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
• Wilkerson, Isabel | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
• Wilson, A.N. | The Mystery of Charles Dickens
• Wilson, Edward O. | Tales from the Ant World