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Summer Reading 2026

Summer is here! At Bookreporter.com, this means it's time for us to share some great summer book picks with our Summer Reading Contests and Feature.

We are hosting a series of 24-hour contests for these titles on select days through mid-August, so you will have to check the site each day to see the featured prize book and enter to win.

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Paul Levine, author of Midnight Patriots: An Einstein-Chaplin Thriller

Blending fact and fiction, MIDNIGHT PATRIOTS follows real-life friends Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin as they confront powerful enemies threatening America. It's 1940. Europe is in flames. Germany occupies much of the continent, and the Blitz rains terror on London. Fritz Duquesne, a German spy straight from the history books, plots to kidnap Einstein and steal America's nuclear secrets. Enraged by Chaplin's mockery in The Great Dictator, Adolf Hitler dispatches an SS assassin to silence the man who ridiculed him. As Nazi agents and FBI operatives close in, all roads lead Einstein and Chaplin to a deadly showdown aboard the Santa Fe Super Chief as it races from Chicago to Los Angeles.

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Week of June 15, 2026

Paperback releases for the week of June 15th include David Baldacci's STRANGERS IN TIME, a heart-wrenching, suspense-filled novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another; THE GRIFFIN SISTERS’ GREATEST HITS by Jennifer Weiner,   a captivating family saga about two sisters’ incredible journey and a daughter’s quest to reunite her family; SHE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING, a gripping domestic thriller from Shari Lapena in which a luxurious condo building transforms into a potential crime scene when a beloved wife and mother disappears; and Ian McEwan's genre-bending novel, WHAT WE CAN KNOW, an immersive exploration across time and history of what can ever be truly known.  

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