Reader's Corner: My Most Anticipated June New Releases

+ My book in NEWSWEEK!!

Hello, Protagonists! In this post, you’ll find:

🤩 OH MY GOD. My book was in Newsweek!

📚 My Most Anticipated June New Releases

🥰 Share your Book Recs

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🤩 OH MY GOD. My book was in Newsweek!

I grew up seeing Newsweek Magazine in the checkout stands at the grocery store, so this was wild to see my upcoming book featured in their Staff Picks piece.

I am honestly beside myself that my book was listed in the company of books by Jodi Picoult, Sally Rooney, Amal El-Mohtar, and Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough (Elvis’s daughter and granddaughter)!

“Perfect for the end of summer, this feel-good novel will be in bookstores in August. Chloe and Oliver’s friendship—from their meeting as first-grade pen pals through their teens—was so tight that everyone just called them “Clover.” Circumstances separate them, only to bring them back together in their 30s, through mysterious workings, Chloe’s endlessly positive attitude and her yellow origami notes. It’s just the book you need—beautifully drawn characters and prose and a smile-inducing story.”
—Meredith Wolf Schizer, Senior Editor

Thank you, Newsweek!

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In case you missed it, you can RSVP now (it’s free!) for my virtual launch party + origami workshop, where I’ll teach you to make 2 paper roses inspired by my book.

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📚 My Most Anticipated June New Releases

It’s the end of the month, which means today is your short preview of some of the new books coming out soon that I’m looking forward to and that you might want to add to your TBR!

(note: I don’t receive affiliate commissions or any payment from publishers. I haven’t read these books yet but am genuinely interested in them and think you might be, too.)

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (June 3, general fiction)

Set in the 1980s, this novel follows physics professor Joan Goodwin as she attempts to become one of the first women to join NASA's Space Shuttle Program, finding love among her fellow recruits before a terrifying incident puts their lives at risk.

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab (June 10, general fiction)

V.E. Schwab is back after her stunning The Invisible Life of Addie Larue with another genre-defying, centuries-spanning novel about immortality, but this one is also about hunger, love, and rage.

I interviewed Victoria for our podcast - episode coming in June!

The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick (June 17, general fiction)

In the California desert lies the Poppy Fields, a controversial clinic promising to let the broken-hearted sleep through their grief—literally. As four strangers (and one little dog) journey west seeking healing, they must confront the secrets they carry and the cost of forgetting pain. The Poppy Fields is a speculative novel about loss, hope, and the lengths we’ll go to mend a shattered heart.

I will be interviewing Nikki for our podcast - episode coming mid-summer!

Before Dorothy by Hazel Gaynor (June 17, historical fiction)

Long before Dorothy visits Oz, her aunt, Emily Gale, sets off on her own grand adventure, leaving gritty Chicago behind for Kansas and a life that will utterly change her.

Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell (June 24, thriller)

Three women are connected to one man through a shocking truth that is far darker than anyone could have imagined. And all three are about to wish they had heeded the same warning: Don’t let him in. But the past won’t stay buried forever.

I will be interviewing Lisa for our podcast - episode coming at the very beginning of July!

The Accidental Favorite by Fran Littlewood (June 24, general fiction)

A wryly resonant and moving family dramedy investigating the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite? In a lively, poignant examination of memory, sisterhood, and family ties, Fran Littlewood reminds us just why it is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

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🥰 Share Your Book Recommendations!

• What books have you loved recently?

• What books are you looking forward to in June?

Leave a Comment so we can all add them to our TBRs!