The 10 Novels Not to Miss This Summer

"Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace." That's the publisher's description. Say no more - we are in!

Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky & BOMB Magazine

In lit superstar Ann Patchett's much-anticipated novel, a mother shares with her three grown daughters the story of her affair with a famous actor long ago.

Reese Witherspoon & Brandon

This is the latest novel by two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy which follows a concert pianist shadowed throughout Europe by a doppelgänger.

The Irish Times & Los Angeles Review of Books

A serial murder invstigation rocks a small southern town where secrets are festering under the surface.

Stephen King & Patton Oswalt

In her first novel since 2009, Moore tells a story of how our pasts haunt us, through the eyes of a therapy clown, a teacher visiting his dying brother and an assassin.

Parul Sehgal & Isaac Fitzgerald

Two-time Pulitzer winner Whitehead continues his detour from his books set in the Jim Crow South with this lively sequel to Harlem Shuffle, another heist novel set in 70s NYC.

colson whitehead & Maris Kreizman

Debut author Thao Thai follows three generations of Vietnamese American women after the death of the family matriarch.

Jenna Bush Hager & Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

Mobility centers on a State Dept brat who grows up to pursue an ambitious career in the oil industry, but eventually returns to the scene of her youth, where slippery figures from the past reappear...

Jon Favreau & Dan Pfeiffer

McBride reveals the shadowy past of a dilapidated neighborhood in Pottstown, PA, where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. The interwoven stories show a community sustained by love, mutual respect and humanity.

Ron Charles & Laura Miller

A coming-of-age story about a teenager who drops out of school and becomes a typist and transcriber for Warhol, who is writing a novel that draws on the conversations of his many famous friends.

The New York Review of Books & Rachel Connolly