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As summer turns up the heat, the vibe is FICTION; moody and a little sultry as we usher in new thrillers, fantasy, debut authors and buzzy new fiction from one of the best (Did you catch Daisy Jones and the Six? This is the same writer.) This is Book Girl Summer, and we are escaping to the beach. What’s on your TBR?
BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V.E. Schwab
From the #1 “New York Times” bestselling author of “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” comes a story about hunger. Set in 1532 in Santo Domingo de la Calzada, María grows up wild and wily—her beauty only outmatched by her dreams of escape. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice.
ATMOSPHERE by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as an aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program.
WITH A VENGEANCE by Riley Sager
One train. No stops. A deadly game of survival and revenge. In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Riley Sager delivers the perfect popcorn thriller.
THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE by Jennifer L. Armentrout
In the penultimate chapter of “New York Times” bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout’s Blood and Ash series, Poppy and Casteel face their most perilous challenges yet. Did someone say, “Midnight release party at Talking Animals?”
JUVENILIA by Hera Lindsay Bird
This book is what you get your impossibly cool niece who is visiting for the summer while she’s home from an East Coast college. From Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum, this is the North American debut of a beloved New Zealand poet with a cult following.
Katy Lemieux has been published in the “New York Times”, “Texas Monthly” and “Esquire”and co-owns Talking Animals Books with Valerie Walizadeh in Grapevine.