In Talty’s novel, Charles — who was raised on a Penobscot reservation in Maine before being asked to leave because he wasn’t Native — reflects on his life and what he has lost in the years since his expulsion.
Tin House, June 4
Godwin, by Joseph O’Neill
O’Neill’s new novel is about soccer in the way his acclaimed book “Netherland” was about cricket, which is to say that it’s less about the sport itself than what it signifies in an unfair world. A restless technical writer joins a sports scout on a global search for an African soccer prodigy, whom they’ve seen only on video. The story builds into a study of greed, labor and ambition.
Pantheon, June 4
His father was the Vanity Fair journalist Dominick Dunne; his uncle the screenwriter John Gregory Dunne; his uncle’s wife the essayist Joan Didion. With this memoir, Griffin Dunne, best known as an actor and producer, becomes the latest published author in the clan, sharing stories of his family and their celebrity encounters.
Penguin Press, June 11
Years after a curse — and deaths of those involved — thwarted the release of an art-house film called “Horror Movie,” Hollywood has decided it’s ripe for a remake.
Morrow, June 11
Broke, adrift and pregnant — what’s a girl to do? Margo finds an extremely 21st-century solution to her financial bind: OnlyFans. But semi-pornographic internet fame is perhaps the least of the shenanigans contained within the pages of Thorpe’s comic novel.
Morrow, June 11
An established star of contemporary Y.A. (known for her book “Everything, Everything”), Yoon pivots to adult fiction with her latest — a slow-burn thriller that crosses the cinematic vectors of “Get Out” and “Stepford Wives” in a story about a young family that moves to a prosperous Black community, only to find that all is not as utopian as it seems.
Knopf, June 11
This is a warts-and-all consideration of Joni Mitchell, whose comeback after a 2015 aneurysm and appearance at the 2024 Grammy Awards, have only burnished her exalted reputation in the pantheon of modern singer-songwriters.
Dey Street, June 11
Setoodeh, the co-editor in chief of Variety, goes deep behind the scenes at “The Apprentice,” the show that transformed Donald Trump from a bankrupt businessman and tabloid fixture into a reality TV star.
Harper, June 18
Emezi’s latest is part deep dive into Nigeria’s underworld, part exploration of love and desire. The story opens as Aima and Kalu end their relationship. Each decides to join their friends for an independent night out, but instead of helping them relax, the evening spirals, exposing both of them to a dangerous side of Lagos.
Riverhead, June 18
On Call, by Anthony Fauci
The unflappable doctor who led the United States through public-health maelstroms — including the AIDS epidemic and Covid-19 — traces his six-decade career. Sharing his life story, he said, may “inspire younger individuals in particular to consider careers in public health and public service.”
Viking, June 18
When he was 10, Ethan spent an evening camping in his yard with his best friend Billy, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that something — or someone — had violently ripped open their tent, and Billy had vanished. Thirty years later, Ethan tries to get to the bottom of what happened.
Dutton, June 18
Parade, by Rachel Cusk
In her new novel, Cusk presents the enigmatic lives and predicaments of several artists identified by the initial “G”: a man who becomes famous for painting his wife upside down; a painter who escapes her troubled childhood, only to wind up in a troubled marriage; a filmmaker considering the legacy of his imperious mother. Throughout the book, Cusk takes on knotty questions about art, family and selfhood.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 18
For this account of America in the 1990s, Ganz ditches the familiar narrative about a decade of relative peace and prosperity for a disturbing tale of populists, nativists and demagogues, who, acting on the margins of U.S. politics, helped shatter the post-Cold War consensus and usher in anti-democratic forces that plague the country today.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 18
Bear, by Julia Phillips
Two working-class sisters struggle for happiness on a small island off the coast of Washington. Enter … an enormous bear. The author’s debut, “Disappearing Earth,” was a New York Times Best Book of 2019.
Hogarth, June 25
From “Queen for a Day” to “The Real World,” “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” it’s all here in the New Yorker staff writer’s capacious look at the early history and explosive growth of reality TV — the pop-culture genre we love to hate, hate to love and just can’t quit.
Random House, June 25
Frostbite, by Nicola Twilley
The food and science writer travels the length of the cold chain, talking up the people who fill our shipping containers and cheese caves. She meets a frozen dumpling billionaire, explores “the largest concentrated juice-storage facility in North America” and even explains why being chilly really does encourage you to catch a cold.
Penguin Press, June 25
