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June 7, 2024 - June 21, 2024

Here are reading recommendations with your comments and a rating of 1 to 5 stars for the contest period of June 7 - June 21.

Week of June 24, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of June 24th include TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, Gabrielle Zevin's memorable novel about two college friends who become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity and, ultimately, a kind of immortality; FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING, Matthew Perry's candid, funny and revelatory memoir that takes us behind the scenes of "Friends" and his struggles with addiction; WELLNESS by Nathan Hill, a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the often baffling pursuit of health and happiness, and the stories that bind us together; THE ART THIEF, a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius as Michael Finkel brings us into Stéphane Breitwieser’s strange world; and TANGLED VINES, John Glatt’s unputdownable account of the rise and fall of the prestigious Murdaugh family.

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2024 Thriller Awards

On June 1st, during ThrillerFest XIX, the International Thriller Writers (ITW) announced the winners of the 2024 Thriller Awards at the Sheraton Times Square in New York City.

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The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Luckily, on the first day of school, Ellie meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit.

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Week of June 17, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of June 17th include EVERYONE HERE IS LYING, another thrilling domestic suspense novel from Shari Lapena, whose previous bestsellers include THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and SOMEONE WE KNOW; ROMAN STORIES, Jhumpa Lahiri's first collection of short stories, in which Rome --- metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multifaceted and metaphysical --- is the protagonist, not the setting; Carolyn Mackler's debut adult novel, THE WIFE APP, a hilarious rollercoaster ride of revenge and redemption that is at once a send-up of modern marriage and a celebration of female friendship and love in all forms; THE SECOND MURDERER, a smart and atmospheric mystery from Denise Mina, the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective, Philip Marlowe; and GEORGE, poet and painter Frieda Hughes' intimate, charming and humorous memoir recounting her experience rescuing and raising an abandoned baby magpie in the Welsh countryside.

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Week of June 10, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of June 10th include LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN by Lisa See, an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China; SOMEBODY'S FOOL, another classic from Richard Russo, who returns to North Bath and the characters who captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in NOBODY'S FOOL and EVERYBODY'S FOOL; THE BLOCK PARTY, a shocking domestic thriller from Jamie Day in which the residents of an exclusive cul-de-sac are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other; ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH by Finn Murphy, an inside look at the alluring world of the hemp boom and a masterful tale of one entrepreneur’s misadventures; and the paperback original THE HOUSEMAID IS WATCHING, the third entry in Freida McFadden's unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series.

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Week of June 3, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of June 3rd include CROOK MANIFESTO, a powerful and hugely entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory and continues Colson Whitehead's Harlem saga that began with HARLEM SHUFFLE; FLAGS ON THE BAYOU, James Lee Burke's Edgar Award-winning novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms, and a brilliant cast of characters are caught in the maelstrom; GOOD NIGHT, IRENE by Luis Alberto Urrea, an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross; THE FIRST LADIES, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray's enlightening novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune; and MOTHERHOOD SO WHITE, an honest, vulnerable and uplifting memoir in which Nefertiti Austin shares her story of starting a family through adoption as a single Black woman.

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June 5, 2024

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Thursday, June 6th at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of SHELTERWOOD by Lisa Wingate, which is now available and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

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