Can't Go Wrong Summer Fiction Reads

A staple of 2024 bestseller lists that’s had so much buzz since it came out in late February, this prequel-cum-sequel to the author’s Pulitzer-nominated debut follows the legacies of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a Native American family.

This instant New York Times bestseller reimagines Twain’s classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of his enslaved sidekick Jim as he embarks down the Mississippi in search of freedom. “This is a book that is darkly funny, as many of Everett’s books are, and I just know that I’m going to be talking about it the rest of the year,” declared New York Times Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz, when dishing on his favorite books of the year so far.

You can now preorder the bestselling author’s highly anticipated sophomore novel, a cutting family saga about a wealthy clan that begins with the father's kidnapping in the 1980s and moves on to their less-than-stellar present day. Oprah Daily was smitten: “As weird as this may sound--Brodesser-Akner has written probably the funniest book ever about generational family trauma."

The writer, director, and actor returns with a sensation of a novel starring a semi-famous, 45-year-old artist who abandons her husband and child to check into a seedy motel off the highway, where she embarks on a journey of sexual reawakening. " All Fours possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible...Miranda July has given women in their 40s something totally new to want, plus permission to want it," raved author Emily Gould in The Cut.

From Sarah Jessica Parker's "blissfully transportive" reading list to Kaia Gerber and Roxane Gay’s book clubs, this poet’s debut novel was in all the right places this year. It follows the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants on a quest that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. "Incandescent . . . Akbar has created an indelible protagonist, haunted, searching, utterly magnetic,” raved The New York Times Book Review.

A time-bending escape that follows a group of expat time travelers—a captain from a doomed Arctic exploration, a WWI soldier, a plague victim—and their 21st-century "bridges," tasked with guiding them through the modern world. Sharp, sexy, and surprising, it's no wonder that A24 snapped up the TV rights on sight.

Amor Towles offers his devoted fans a clutch of short stories set in turn-of-millenium New York City, plus a helping of golden age glam with a novella set in 1938 Hollywood. "Superb ... This may be Towles' best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef's main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart," raved the Los Angeles Times.

A beguiling and bizarre novel by an award-winning translator about a troop of translators who go in search of a famous author who’s gone missing in a Polish forest. "As bewildering and beckoning as its cover, Jennifer Croft’s locked-room mystery is something like Agatha Christie or Knives Out on mushrooms—ones not unlike those in the book itself." – Elle Magazine

Twists abound in the new locked room murder mystery from the #1 NYTimes bestselling author of The Paris Apartment. A beguiling group of well-heeled guests have gathered for the opulent grand opening of a luxurious resort on the English coast. But its long-buried secrets are uncovered after a body is discovered floating in the sea.

It’s 1985, and Anita de Monte is a fast rising star in the New York City art world. That is, until she’s found dead under mysterious circumstances. When, decades later, an Ivy League art student stumbles upon this long-forgotten artist, both of their worlds collide in an “unflinching examination of power and privilege,” according to the Washington Post.