It’s hard to believe we’re nearing the halfway point of 2018, but thankfully the year continues to bring incredible new book releases! This month is no different with the release of some intriguing new books, debut authors, and sequels from popular series!
Debut Australian author C.G. Drews makes a splash in YA with A Thousand Perfect Notes, while Renée Ahdieh returns with the follow-up novel to Flame In The Mist. If you’re after some fantasy, James Markert’s What Blooms From Dust and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning are sure to delight, along with Ed McDonald’s second book in The Raven’s Mark series. Plus there is new novels from Paul Tremblay and Lauren Weisberger!
Read on to discover some of our picks and tell us what June release you are most excited for!
A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising by Raymond A. Villareal
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A virus that turns people into something somehow more than human quickly sweeps the world, upending society as we know it. This sweeping yet deeply intimate fictional oral history–told from the perspectives of several players on all sides of the titular vampire uprising–is a genre-bending, shocking, immersive and subversive debut that is as addictive as the power it describes.
Smoke In The Sun by Renee Ahdieh
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The highly anticipated sequel to Flame in the Mist—an addictive, sumptuous finale that will leave readers breathless from the bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn.
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
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The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story, which sees a gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined.
Ravencry by Ed McDonald
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Four years have passed since Nall’s Engine drove the Deep Kings back across the Misery, but as they hurl fire from the sky, darker forces plots against the republic. A new power is rising: a ghost in the light known only as the Bright Lady manifests in visions across the city, and the cult that worship her grasp for power even as the city burns around them. Ravencry is the second book in the Raven’s Mark series, continuing the story that began with the award-winning epic fantasy Blackwing.
A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G. Drews
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Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music – because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence. When Beck meets August, a girl full of life, energy and laughter, love begins to awaken within him and he glimpses a way to escape his painful existence. But dare he reach for it?
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
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Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.
There There by Tommy Orange
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Here is a voice we have never heard—a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Tommy Orange writes of the plight of the urban Native American, the Native American in the city, in a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide. An unforgettable debut, destined to become required reading in schools and universities across the country.
The Anomaly by Michael Rutger
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If Indiana Jones lived in the X-Files era, he might bear at least a passing resemblance to Nolan Moore — a rogue archaeologist hosting a documentary series derisively dismissed by the “real” experts, but beloved of conspiracy theorists. Nolan sets out to retrace the steps of an explorer from 1909 who claimed to have discovered a mysterious cavern high up in the ancient rock of the Grand Canyon. And, for once, he may have actually found what he seeks. Then the trip takes a nasty turn, and the cave begins turning against them in mysterious ways.
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
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Catherine Steadman’s enthralling voice shines throughout this spellbinding debut novel that follows a shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise which changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple. With piercing insight and fascinating twists, Something in the Water challenges the reader to confront the hopes we desperately cling to, the ideals we’re tempted to abandon, and the perfect lies we tell ourselves.
When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger
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New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisberger returns with a novel starring one of her favorite characters from The Devil Wears Prada—Emily Charlton, first assistant to Miranda Priestly, now a highly successful image consultant who’s just landed the client of a lifetime. With her signature biting style, Lauren Weisberger offers a dazzling look into another sexy, over-the-top world, where nothing is as it appears.
What Blooms From Dust by James Markert
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Just as Jeremiah Goodbye is set to meet his fate in the electric chair, a tornado tears down the prison walls, and he is given a second chance at life. Filled with mystery and magic, What Blooms from Dust is the story of finding hope in the midst of darkness and discovering the beauty of unexpected kindness.
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
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While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope. As Maggie discovers the truth behind the disappearances, she will have to confront her past—if she wants to survive.
Check out what other books are coming out this month on our Goodreads list!
