Best new release books to check out this July

We’ve found the best, new release book recommendations for each Bookfinity Reader Type.

Your summer reading goal hasn't been hit yet and you need some new book inspiration. Good news for you! We've to the highly anticipated books releasing in August. Historical fiction has really taken off for August new releases, as well as strong female leading characters. But thrillers and mystery lovers, don't worry there are plenty of action and plot twists waiting for you. Take a book with you for your summer vacation or open a new book under a shady tree. Summer is not waiting around, and neither are these books!

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Serial Reader

Like Mother, Like Daughter

by Kimberly McCreight

New York Times Bestselling Author

When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom's bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened.

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Time Traveler

Black Butterflies

by Priscilla Morris

Short-Listed for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect makeshift barricades, splitting the city into ethnic enclaves. Each morning, the people who live there--whether Muslim, Croat, or Serb--push the barriers aside.

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Subject Matter Expert

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

by P. Djeli Clark

A Most Anticipated Book of 2024

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins--resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories--have only three unbreakable vows.

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Bookworm

River in the Sky

by Elif Shafak

Booker Prize Finalist Author of The Island of Missing Trees

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.

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Beach Reader

Rip Tide

by Colleen McKeegan

It's been fifteen years since Kimmy Devine promised herself she'd never move back to Rocky Cape, the idyllic South Jersey beach town where she grew up. She doesn't want to relive the crushing heartbreak and scandal that ravaged her world as a teen. Her younger sister, Erin, shares those feelings, the wounds she caused so many years ago forever binding her and Kimmy.

Yet here they are, back in their hometown.

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Young at Heart

Death at the Morning House

by Maureen Johnson

New York Times Bestselling Author

The fire wasn't Marlowe Wexler's fault. Dates should be hot, but not hot enough to warrant literal firefighters. Akilah, the girl Marlowe has been in love with for years, will never go out with her again. No one dates an accidental arsonist.

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Lifelong Learner

The Devil At His Elbow

by Valerie Bauerlein

"Valerie Bauerlein's blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century's wildest crime stories."--Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls

Power, privilege, and blood--this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh's violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter who has become an authority on the case.

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Modern Romantic

Joy

by Danielle Steel

New York Times Bestselling Author

When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon's party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable--or unwilling--to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents' joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace through an escape into books.

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Trendsetter

A Sorceress Comes to Call

by T. Kingfisher

New York Times Bestselling and Hugo Award-winning Author

Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn't have any doors between rooms--there are no secrets in this house--and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him

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Leading Lady

Zero Stars Do Not Recommend

by MJ Wassmer

White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapped on an island resort after the sun explodes, and suddenly must choose whether to save himself from the chaos, or help the fellow guests make it off the island alive...

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Cool Mom & Dad

A Well-Trained Wife

by Tia Levings

"Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn't a savior coming. Maybe it was up to me to save me."

Recruited into the fundamentalist Quiverfull movement as a young wife, Tia Levings learned that being a good Christian meant following a list of additional life principles--a series of secret, special rules to obey.

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Woke Up Like This

Confounding Oaths

by Alexis Hall

It is the year 1815, and Mr. John Caesar is determined to help his sister, Mary, successfully navigate the marriage mart. A high-stakes endeavor at the best of times, this task is made slightly more difficult by his family's nontraditional background, the pernicious whims of the ton, and the ever-present complication of living in a world full of scheming fairies and capricious gods.

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World Traveler

In France Profound

by T.D. Allman

National Book Award-longlisted Author

When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity's most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones and visible from its windows.

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Game Day Hero

Men in White

by Chris Raymond

A thrilling sports story, Men in White is the tale of the young athletes who defied the doomsayers and rescued Penn State's football program from the horrors of the Jerry Sandusky scandal--told by the players themselves.

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Self-Starter

Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape the World

by Anupreeta Das

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates--one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades--and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

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Spiritual Seeker

Healing from Codependency

by Wendy Lehnertz

The only Christian devotional on healing from codependency and establishing healthy boundaries

People struggling with codependency need God more than ever. Healing from Codependencyinvites you, the readers, to find your center by seeking God and looking inward before focusing on others. Codependency can keep you in self-neglect and preoccupied with what you cannot control, or emotionally isolated and believing you need only be self-reliant to get through the day.

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Dissenter

When the Ice is Gone

by Paul Bierman

In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world's first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves, twigs, and moss. That observation led them to a startling discovery: Greenland's ice sheet had melted naturally before, about 400,000 years ago. The remote island's ice was far more fragile than scientists had realized--unstable even without human interference.

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Mountain Climber

River Songs

by Steve Duda

River Songs is rich with bracing, authentic, generous stories--writing that revels in language and spirit. Avoiding most of fly fishing's clichés--the romantic elegies, the Moby-Dick-like conquests, the play-by-play detailing a "victory" over a fish-- Steve Duda instead offers pieces that breathe lived experience, reveal vulnerabilities, and convey a broad perspective of what it means to have "a long run with a tight crew."

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