Get Ready for Summer Fun with These June 2025 Book Releases

Whether you have oceanside vacations on your schedule or just can't wait to lounge around in the sun, there's no doubt about it—June is a month for reading. This year, there are countless new June releases headed our way. Find our most anticipated titles below to build your perfect summer TBR list.

Our Top 2025 June New Releases to Look Forward To

From beach read romances to thrilling mysteries and more, these new June 2025 releases have us counting down the days! Stop by Novel for one of our events to grab them as soon as they come out:  

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

In the summer of 1980, Joan Goodwin, a physics and astronomy professor at Rice University, is perfectly content with her life in academia and being an aunt to little Frances. That is, until she's selected from a large pool of applicants to become one of the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program! As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their flights, Joan finds a love she never could have imagined. But in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changed in an instant. Best-selling author Taylor Jenkins Reid is finally back with her ninth book and one of our most eagerly awaited June new releases, Atmosphere, out June 3rd!

Catch Up on A Few of Taylor Jenkins Reid's Other Novels:

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (soon to be a movie!)
• Daisy Jones & The Six
• Malibu Rising
• Carrie Soto is Back

Park Avenue by Renée Ahdieh

Ahdieh's debut adult novel, Park Avenue, is out in physical form (and as an audiobook) on June 3rd—and we can't wait to add this to our June new release lineup! Having just made junior partner at her fancy Manhattan law firm, Jia Song is finally living the life she was destined to live. When her boss asks her to sit in on the mysterious implosion of a high-level client, she accepts—only to discover it's one of the most famous Korean families in the world. The Park family owns a crazy successful Korean beauty brand, but with the patriarch filing for divorce, a dying wife, and three children who can't stop fighting, it's up to Jia to set things right. With dark secrets at every turn and only a month to patch things together, can she protect the fortune and secure her future at the firm?  

Notes on Infinity by Austin Taylor

Zoe, the daughter of an MIT professor, is ready to pave her own path at Harvard – especially when Jack, a boy in her organic chemistry class, matches her intellect and curiosity perfectly. When the two become colleagues, they find themselves on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough: immortality from an anti-aging drug. As they drop out and form a start-up to focus on their new project, they receive a startling accusation that threatens to destroy the partnership and company for good. Taylor's extraordinary debut, Notes on Infinity, hits the shelves at our Rochester, Michigan, bookstore on June 3rd with the rest of the June new releases!

Submersed by Matthew Gavin Frank

We've been looking forward to this non-fiction June new release for what feels like forever, and on June 3rd, Submersed is finally out! Dive deep into the world of DIY submersibles with expert Matthew Gavin Frank as he explores the history of the human need to journey to the depths of the ocean. The perfect blend of true crime, history, and mythology, this title is impossible to put down, with secrets, murder plots, and the obsession's darkest extremes revealing themselves along the way.

What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

Out June 3rd, What Kind of Paradise is a must-have for any June new release list. Growing up in the mid-‘90s in an isolated cabin in Montana, Jane knows only the world she and her father have created. When it comes to their past, all he's told her is that they lived in the Bay Area and her mother died in a car accident—the very crash that convinced him to move them off the grid to raise her in a Walden-esque utopia. But as Jane becomes a teenager and begins pushing against these boundaries, begging her father to let her accompany him on his occasional trips away, she realizes she's been an unknowing accomplice to a horrific crime. Jane does what any rational teenager would do and decides to flee to San Francisco in search of the truth.

King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby

What do you get when you combine The Godfather with Southern family drama? Cosby's June new release, King of Ashes, out June 10th. When his father has a car accident, eldest son Roman Carruthers returns home to find his youngest brother, Dante, indebted to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family crematorium business together. But when it becomes clear the crash was no accident, Roman will have to go to extremes to save his family—and he'll do just about anything.  

The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

Welcome to The Poppy Fields, an experimental and controversial treatment center that enables patients suffering from heartache and loss to sleep through their pain. It seems too good to be true! Once they awake, they will finally be healed—that is, if they're willing to accept the potential side effects. When Ava, a book illustrator; Ray, a fireman; Sasha, an occupational therapist; Sky, a free spirit; and a friendly pup named PJ attempt to travel from the Midwest to this remote stretch of California desert in search of Ellis, the enigmatic founder, each of their secrets threaten to derail their journey. This June new release, out on the 17th, asks the important question: how far are we willing to go in order to be healed?   

How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle

Meet Anders, a teenage idealist who signs up for the Civil War to shape the American Future—and escape his violently insane mother, obviously. He soon finds honor as a proud Union flag twirler until he's captured and decides to switch sides and become a diehard Confederate. But when Anders barely escapes Gettysburg alive and limps back to a Black Union regiment in a stolen uniform, insisting that he's an octoroon, he finds a new family. His new brothers are strange and foreign, and despite his best efforts, he begins to see the war through their eyes for the first time. Funny and revelatory, the razor-sharp satire How to Dodge a Cannonball, out June 17th, boldly asks if America is worth fighting for.

Other June New Releases Worth Waiting For

With June comes a long list of new releases in every book genre. Keep an eye out for others we’re excited to grab:

• Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (out June 10th)
• Sounds Like Love by Ashley Poston (out June 17th)
• Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (out June 24th)

Stop by one of our Silent Book Clubs and grab the first one that catches your eye, or pre-order your eagerly awaited title through our Bookshop.org link to receive it on release day. We can't wait to see you at Novel!