We are nearing a new month which means that it is time to talk about new book releases!
I always look forward to getting to talk about some of my most anticipated new releases for each month! In these posts, I present five(ish) new book releases for the upcoming month that I am looking forward to reading. I try to include books over several genres on these lists, so there is usually something to appeal to readers in most genres.
1) Call the Canaries Home by Laura Barrow
Southern/Contemporary Fiction
Released: July 1st, 2023
Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heartfelt novel about family, grief, secrets, and forgiveness.
Savannah was four years old when her twin sister, Georgia, went missing from their small Louisiana town, fracturing their family. Twenty-eight years later, Savannah convinces her estranged older sisters, Rayanne and Sue Ellen, to honor the pact they made as children and retrieve the time capsule they buried in their old backyard. But coming home means confronting old ghosts…and their stubborn grandmother, Meemaw.
Sifting through the artifacts, they come across a photograph taken on the day Georgia disappeared and spot a familiar woman lingering in the background. While Sue Ellen and Rayanne want to move on with their lives, Savannah is determined to find the woman—and perhaps a clue to the past.
When old tensions, rivalries, and memories resurface, the sisters must reconsider what they thought they knew about that fateful day, about each other, and about themselves. On their search to uncover what happened to Georgia, each of them will discover what Meemaw has known all along: family is everything.
If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, I think you should check this book out. The premise of this one is different enough to not feel repetitive but it does have some similar elements to that one. This book has over a 4 star average rating on Goodreads so far and I have heard great things!
To read more about Call the Canaries Home or add it to your "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads use the link: here! If you would like to purchase Call the Canaries Home, you can find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
2) A Likable Woman by May Cobb
Mystery
To Be Released: July 11th, 2023
After her troublemaker mother's mysterious death, Kira fled her wealthy Texas town and never looked back. Now, decades later, Kira is invited to an old frenemy's vow renewal party. Though she is reluctant to go, there are things calling her back . . . like chilled wine and days spent by the pool . . . like her sexy childhood crush, Jack. But, more importantly, it's the urgent texts from her grandmother who says she has something to give Kira. Something about her mother's death, something that looks an awful lot like murder.
When her grandmother gives Kira a memoir that her mother had been working on before she died, she is pulled into the past and all of the sizzling secrets that come along with it. With few allies left in her gossipy, country club town, Kira turns to Jack for help. As she gets closer to what--and who--might have brought about her mother's end, it becomes clear that someone wants the past to stay buried.
And Kira might be next.
This synopsis hooked me! There are so many intriguing thrillers coming out this month and it was hard to pick just one to add to the list. I chose to include this one because I am familiar with the author and know that her previous books were generally well received. I hope this one lives up to the hype and the author's reputation!
To read more about A Likable Woman or add it to your "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads use the link: here! If you would like to pre-order A Likable Woman, you can find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
3) Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Romance
Released: July 11th, 2023
Love isn’t blind, it’s just little blurry.
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.
But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls into—love? Lust? A temporary obsession to distract from the real problems in her life?—with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.
If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible. Even though there are things we can only find when we aren’t looking. And there are people who show up when we least expect them. And there are always, always other ways of seeing.
Katherine Center is very beloved online. While I am still working my way through her backlog, I've read enough to know that I am a fan! This book has been all over my Instagram feed and I am dying to get my hands on a copy soon.
To read more about Hello Stranger or add it to your "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads use the link: here! If you would like to pre-order Hello Stranger, you can find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
4) The Legacies by Jessica Goodman
Young Adult
To Be Released: July 25th, 2023
Old money. New secrets. One killer party.
Scoring an invitation for membership to the exclusive Legacy Club in New York City is more than an honor. It gives you a lifetime of access to power and wealth beyond any prep school doors and guaranteed safety and security as Legacy Club members always look out for their own. That is, after you make it through a rigorous week of events and the extravagant gala, the Legacy Ball.
So it’s not surprising when Excelsior Prep seniors Bernie Kaplan, Isobel Rothcroft, and Skyler Hawkins are nominated as Legacies; their family pedigrees have assured their membership since birth—even if they're all keeping secrets that could destroy their reputations. But scholarship kid from Queens Tori Tasso? She’s a surprise nominee, someone no one saw coming. Tori’s never fit in this world of designer bags, penthouse apartments, and million-dollar donations. So what did she do to secure her place?
The night of the Legacy Ball is supposed to be the best night of these seniors’ lives, a night of haute couture, endless champagne, and plenty of hushed gossip.
Everyone expects a night of luxury and excess.
No one expects their secrets to come out.
Or for someone to die trying to keep them hidden.
The early reviews on this are really promising! Though taste in books is always subjective, I do like to know that I am not wasting my time on a book that totally bombed. To be fair, I will usually give it a shot anyways---even with low ratings---but it is nice to manage expectations when going into a new release. I have founds that the letdown is so much worse when you go in blind. This is a release that I am definitely keeping on the radar this month!
To read more about The Legacies or add it to your "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads use the link: here! If you would like to pre-order The Legacies, you can find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
5) Do Tell by Lindsay Lynch
Historical Fiction
To Be Released: July 11th, 2023
As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes the final year of her contract with FWM Studios, the clock is ticking for her to find a new gig after an undistinguished stint in the pictures. She's long supplemented her income moonlighting for Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist, providing her with the salacious details of every party and premiere. When an up-and-coming starlet hands her a letter alleging an assault from an A-list actor at a party with Edie and the rest of the industry’s biggest names in attendance, Edie helps get the story into print and sets off a chain of events that will alter the trajectories of everyone involved.
Now on a new side of the entertainment business, Edie’s second act career grants her more control on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera. But Edie quickly learns that publishing the secrets of those former colleagues she considers friends has repercussions. And when she finds herself in the middle of the trial of the decade, Edie is forced to make an impossible choice with the potential to ruin more than one life.
Debut novelist Lindsay Lynch brings the golden age of Hollywood to glittering life, from star-studded opening nights to backlot brawls, on-location Westerns to the Hollywood Canteen. Through Edie's wry observations, Lynch maps the intricate networks of power that manufacture the magic of the movies, and interrogates who actually gets to tell women's stories.
This sounds like it will be super entertaining! I don't usually reach for books like this one but I read the synopsis and was intrigued immediately. I love old Hollywood glamour and this book seems like it will be full of it! This is a debut novel and I am looking forward to this *hopefully* being a fun and different read for me.
To read more about Do Tell or add it to your "Want to Read" shelf on Goodreads use the link: here! If you would like to pre-order Do Tell, you can find it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
I am so excited to see that July looks to be a great month for book releases! I hope next month's releases are just as exciting!
Will you be checking out any of these books? Do you have any other new releases on your radar? Let me know so that I can add them to my list!
As always, thank you for reading!
XO,
Madison
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