Here is a wide-ranging list of books coming out this summer. Some information is from publishers or Publishers Weekly magazine; release dates are subject to change.
OUT NOW
“Barkskins,” by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
A 717-page epic, Proulx’s novel is already being teased by Publishers Weekly as perhaps “her finest work.” With it, she traces three centuries beginning with the North American frontier and timber men stripping it for riches. A much broader canvas than her Pulitzer-winning “The Shipping News” and her famous story “Brokeback Mountain.”
“Before the Fall,” by Noah Hawley (Grand Central)
A small airplane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean with 11 passengers, most of them influential and wealthy. Only one adult and one child survive, and questions arise about whether the crash was an accident or a plot. By the creator of TV’s “Fargo.”
“Charcoal Joe,” by Walter Mosley (Doubleday)
Easy Rawlins is back, this time investigating the case of a brilliant black physicist accused of murdering a white man in 1960s LA.
“End of Watch,” by Stephen King (Scribner)
The third in a trilogy that started with “Mr. Mercedes,” King’s novel brings the evil, formerly comatose Brady back to pursue revenge against Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.
“Homegoing,” by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)
A story of slavery and racism begins in Ghana with two half sisters, one wealthy, one enslaved and sent to America. Their descendants face war, and change, in both countries.
“Marked for Life,” by Emelie Schepp (Mira)
The Swedish head of asylum cases is found shot to death in his home in this U.S. debut by a Swedish suspense novelist.
“Marrow Island,” by Alexis M. Smith (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A journalist who left her island home after a devastating quake returns to find it inhabited by an eerie colony run by a former nun.
“The Mirror Thief,” by Martin Seay (Melville House)
Three stories set in various Venices (16th-century Italian city, 1950s California and modern-day Vegas casino) are intertwined in a tale of money and magic.
“Redemption Road,” by John Hart (St. Martin’s)
Page-turning thriller about a boy who seeks revenge against a former cop believed to have killed his mother.
“The Second Life of Nick Mason,” by Steve Hamilton (Putnam)
Edgar Award-winning author offers a new hero who, newly released from prison, is still under the thumb of a criminal leader.
“Security,” by Gina Wohlsdorf (Algonquin)
Staff at the luxurious new resort Manderley (think “Rebecca”) are killed off before the place can open in this vivid thriller.
COMING SOON
“How to Set a Fire and Why,” by Jesse Ball (Pantheon; July 5)
A gifted but troubled adolescent girl living in a garage dreams of setting fire to the world.
“Listen to Me,” by Hannah Pittard (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; July 5)
A road trip goes bad for a tense young married couple.
“Problems,” by Jade Sharma (Coffee House; July 5)
Getting by with a dead-end job and a heroin addiction in New York becomes more difficult for Maya after her husband leaves her. Billed as “dark, raw and very funny.”
“Underground Airlines,” by Ben H. Winters (Mulholland Books; July 5)
In this alternative history, the Civil War never took place, and slavery still exists in four states. By the author of the Last Policeman trilogy, the new novel features a black man who works as a bounty hunter.
“The Black Widow,” by Daniel Silva (Harper; July 12)
Art restorer/spy Gabriel Allon is called to investigate an ISIS bombing in Paris and to try to stop the bomber before further terrorism takes place.
“The Innocents,” by Ace Atkins (Putnam; July 12)
Mississippian Quinn Colson is back in his hometown trying to help a brassy sheriff find out why a former cheerleader was set on fire.
“Ninety-Nine Stories of God,” by Joy Williams (Tin House; July 12)
Williams makes her short stories even shorter (more like vignettes) in these unsettling interactions and searches for the almighty.
“Siracusa,” by Delia Ephron (Penguin/Blue Rider; July 12)
Two couples (and one daughter) vacation together in Italy, but infidelity and other secrets tear at the marriages.
“The Trouble With Goats and Sheep,” by Joanna Cannon (Scribner; July 12)
Both misfortune and humor are found in a British community in 1976 in which a young girl learns that many of her neighbors hold secrets.
“Falling,” by Jane Green (Berkley; July 19)
A transplanted Brit finds New York life too stressful, so she moves to a Connecticut cottage, which happens to be owned by a steady handyman who is a single dad.
“The Hopefuls,” by Jennifer Close (Knopf; July 19)
Send-up of inside-the-Beltway Washington with ambitious young couples vying for power..
“Truly Madly Guilty,” by Liane Moriarty (Flatiron; July 26)
Trouble in suburbia starts during a barbecue with three families in this latest by the best-selling author of “Big Little Lies.”
“White Bone,” by Ridley Pearson (Putnam; July 19)
Partners Grace Chu and John Knox face elephant poachers, militant fighters and vaccine theft in Kenya.
“You Will Know Me,” by Megan Abbott (Little, Brown; July 26)
A young gymnast with ambitious parents seems destined for the Olympics when a chilling death calls the competitive dream into question.
“To the Bright Edge of the World,” by Eowyn Ivey (Little, Brown; Aug. 2)
Novel by the author of “The Snow Child” tells a 19th-century adventure tale through the diaries of an Army colonel in Alaska and his left-behind wife.
“Another Brooklyn,” by Jacqueline Woodson (Amistad; Aug. 9)
Fresh off her National Book Award (youth literature) for “Brown Girl Dreaming,” Woodson writes about an African-American woman and her friends growing up in the 1970s, her first adult novel in 20 years.
“Arrowood,” by Laura McHugh (Spiegel & Grau; Aug. 9)
Twenty years after her little sisters disappeared, Arden returns to the family mansion in Iowa that she has inherited.
“Surrender, New York,” by Caleb Carr (Random House; Aug. 23)
A profiler and an evidence expert are called in on a series of murders of abandoned children. By the author of “The Alienist.”
