21 Hottest Books of Summer 2025

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Fiction

Shopgirls

Jessica Anya Blau, 2025

Fog and Fury

Rachel Howzell Hall, 2025

The Dark Maestro

Brendan Slocumb, 2025

Food Person

Adam Roberts, 2025

Atmosphere

Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2025

The Listeners

Maggie Stiefvater, 2025

Great Black Hope

Rob Franklin, 2025

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

V. E. Schwab, 2025

The Art of Vanishing

Morgan Pager, 2025

These Summer Storms

Sarah MacLean, 2025

Thriller & Suspense

Marguerite by the Lake

Mary Dixie Carter, 2025

Nonfiction

I Regret Almost Everything

Keith McNally, 2025

The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

Daniel Brook, 2025

Walk Like a Girl

Prabal Gurung, 2025

Submersed

Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines

Matthew Gavin Frank, 2025

How to Lose Your Mother

A Daughter's Memoir

Molly Jong-Fast, 2025

The Very Heart of It

New York Diaries, 1983-1994

Thomas Mallon, 2025

That's How They Get You

An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor

Damon Young, 2025

Hollywood High

A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies

Bruce Handy, 2025

Waiting for Britney Spears

A True Story, Allegedly

Jeff Weiss, 2025

A Marriage at Sea

A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Sophie Elmhirst, 2025