Last Updated: June 27, 2025
Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Joan Goodwin is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined.
The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
The President of the United States is up for reelection. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists set out to answer that burning question about the NFL star-turned-political spouse.
Never Flinch
by Stephen King
Two seemingly separate storylines converge. Detective Izzy Jaynes investigates a threatening letter from someone vowing to kill thirteen innocent people and one guilty individual as atonement. Simultaneously, Holly Gibney is hired as a bodyguard for Kate McKay, a feminist activist facing escalating harassment during her speaking tour. As Izzy works to understand the killer’s motives, Holly confronts Kate’s determined stalker.
One Golden Summer
by Carly Fortune
Alice spent just one summer at a cottage with Nan when she was seventeen–it’s where she took that photo, the one of three grinning teenagers in a yellow speedboat, the image that changed her life. Now Alice lives behind a lens, as a photographer. When Nan falls and breaks her hip, Alice comes up with a plan for them both: another summer in that magical place, Barry’s Bay. Charlie Florek was nineteen when Alice took his photo from afar. Now he’s all grown up–a shameless flirt, who manages to make Nan laugh and Alice long to be seventeen again, when life was simpler, when taking pictures was just for fun.
House of Flame and Shadow
by Sarah J. Maas
Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now that she has, all she wants is to get back. Everything she loves is in Midgard: her family, her friends, her mate. Stranded in a strange new world, she’s going to need all her wits about her to get home again. Hunt Athalar has found himself in some deep holes in his life, but this one might be the deepest of all. After a few brief months with everything he ever wanted, he’s in the Asteri’s dungeons again, stripped of his freedom and without a clue as to Bryce’s fate.
The River is Waiting
by Wally Lamb
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin–and that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears apart his family. Sentenced to prison, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he witnesses frightful acts of brutality. But he also experiences small acts of kindness and kinship.
With a Vengeance
by Riley Sager
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of fourteen hours. Her goal? Confront the people who’ve wronged her, get them to confess their crimes, and deliver them into the hands of authorities waiting at the end of the line. But Anna’s plan is quickly derailed by the murder of one of the passengers. As the train barrels through the night, it becomes clear that someone else on board is enacting their own form of revenge–and that they won’t stop until everyone else is dead.
Problematic Summer Romance
by Ali Hazelwood
Maya Killgore is twenty-three and still in the process of figuring out her life. Conor Harkness is thirty-eight, and Maya cannot stop thinking about him. It’s such a cliché: older man and younger woman; successful biotech guy and struggling grad student; brother’s best friend and the girl he never even knew existed. As Conor loves to remind her, the power dynamic is too imbalanced. Any relationship between them would be problematic.