Summer Reads

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis.Truth is a human right.It’s fall 2007. A well-timed leak has revealed that the US...

From Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act "Moving. . . . Masterly . . . provocative." —The New York Times Book Review"A feat of literary sorcery." —O, The Oprah Magazine"[A] carefully...

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K...

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." —Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the TrainSet in a world where a virus stalks our male...

Ready Player One meets Stranger Things in this new novel by the bestselling author who George RR Martin describes as “an excellent writer.” In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest...

This dark, pitch-perfect novel about our dependence on technology for validation and human connection is as addictive as social media itself.” —PeopleA TIME AND NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY PEOPLE MAGAZINE · THESKIMM · KATIE COURIC’S “WAKE...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.WOULD YOU GIVE UP...

A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent. A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly...

(Available after 3-20 days) Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel! "This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian." -- Publishers Weekly (starred...

"This is a beautiful book. Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Seanan McGuireThe first in a masterful new trilogy from acclaimed author M. R. Carey, The...

"Absorbing, stunning, and emotionally rich." —LocusThe journey through M. R. Carey's "immersive, impeccably rendered world" (Kirkus) — a world in which nature has turned against us — continues in The Trials of Koli, book two of the Rampart Trilogy.The...

M. R. Carey's Rampart trilogy is "an epic post-apocalyptic fable" (Kirkus) like no other, set in a world where nature has turned against us. Now, in the unforgettable final chapter, the world that was lost comes back to haunt those who have survived–and...

“A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard."--Wil WheatonFrom Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.1992:...

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.   The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one...

Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.“A thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level . . . and a powerful cautionary tale about technology, runaway capitalism, and the...

*BELLETRIST'S AUGUST 2020 BOOK PICK*"[Mackintosh's] writing is clear and sharp, with piercing moments of wisdom and insight that drive toward a pitch-perfect ending...Blue Ticket adds something new to the dystopian tradition set by Orwell’s 1984 or...

(Available after 3-20 days)A Most-Anticipated Title in Bustle, i09, LitHub, PopSugar, CrimeReads, BookRiot, GoodReads and more.STARRED Review in BookPage!Titanic meets The Shining in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost...

Fan of The Power by Naomi Alderman? Fan of The Handmaid's Tale or The Testaments by Margaret Atwood? Binge-watched Black Mirror at least once? You need to read Girl One, ASAP. Be prepared to blow your mind with this terrifically inventive, cinematic...

Named a Best Romance Novel of 2022 by Oprah Daily and a Best Novel to Read for a Romantic Getaway by POPSUGARIt seems like a dream come true . . . until it forces her to question everything.Brielle Adebayo is fully content teaching at a New York City...

One of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romances of 2022!A fake engagement brings together a lady with bold and daring dreams, and the heir whose heart she captured—perfect for fans of Bridgerton!Tall, dark, and brooding—to say that American Maxwell...