Just in case you:
- Still haven’t found your favourite read this year,
- Eager to find something fresh, presumably your new favourite author, or
- Just need an excuse to add more books to your #TBR
Well then, in today’s post, I’ll help you to fulfil all of those! Here are 12 debut releases that you need to check out this month!
Again, but Better by Christine Riccio
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Shane has been doing college all wrong. Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. She needs a change — there’s nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She’s going to right all her college mistakes: make friends, pursue boys, and find adventure! Easier said than done.
Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno
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Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that’s what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you’re a boy with a boat. But Rosa feels more caught than cursed. Caught between cultures and choices. Can Rosa break a curse and find her place beyond the horizon?
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
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A big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in love with Prince Henry of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends…
I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas. But Ben’s attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan. As Ben and Nathan’s friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.
All Our Broken Pieces by L.D. Crichton
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Lennon Davis doesn’t believe in much, but she does believe in the security of the number five. If she flicks the bedroom light switch five times, maybe her new L.A. school won’t suck. Kyler Benton witnesses this pattern of lights from the safety of his treehouse in the yard next door. But Kyler finds that descriptions of blonde hair, sad eyes, and tapping fingers are beginning to fill the pages of his notebooks. Lennon, the lonely girl next door his father has warned him about, infiltrates his mind.
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
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Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad. So Biz doesn’t tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. But after what happens on the beach–first in the ocean, and then in the sand–the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
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The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden.
Next Girl to Die (The Calderwood Cases #1) by Dea Poirier
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It’s been fifteen years since Claire Calderwood’s sister, Rachel, was brutally murdered in their small hometown in Maine. Still haunted by Rachel’s cold case, Claire returns home, hoping to solve the crime. When the killer strikes once again, Claire knows he’s not done. Now he’s set his sights on Claire.
Nocturna by Maya Motayne
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Set in a Latinx-inspired world, a face-changing thief, Finn Voy and a risk-taking prince, Alfie, must team up to defeat a powerful evil they accidentally unleashed. But when Finn and Alfie’s fates collide, they accidentally unlock a terrible, ancient power—which, if not contained, will devour the world.
These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling
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Hannah’s a witch, but not the kind you’re thinking of. She’s the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. But then a terrifying blood ritual interrupts the end-of-school-year bonfire. Evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem.
The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
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Fatima lives in the city of Noor, a thriving stop along the Silk Road. However, the city bears scars of its recent past, when the chaotic tribe of Shayateen djinn slaughtered its entire population — except for Fatima and two other humans. Now ruled by a new maharajah, Noor is protected from the Shayateen by the Ifrit, djinn of order and reason, and by their commander, Zulfikar. But when one of the most potent of the Ifrit dies, Fatima is drawn into the intrigues of the maharajah and his sister, the affairs of Zulfikar and the djinn, and the dangers of a magical battlefield.
We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal
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Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.
