What perfect way to celebrate summer than to get together for some vitamin D with your book besties? If you’re looking for something to dive into this summer, check out these 2026 summer releases perfect for your book club!
Don’t Stop by Bonnie Friedman (4/21)
Ina, a successful literary scholar with a stable life, finds everything unraveling after an impulsive kiss with a stranger sparks unexpected desire. What she initially frames as a harmless distraction quickly turns into a deeper reckoning with her marriage, career, and sense of self. As she navigates this emotional and personal upheaval, Ina begins to question what she truly wants from her life. Set in early 2000s New York, the novel explores identity, ambition, and the risks of wanting more.
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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (5/5)
During the day, Artie Dam is a high school history teacher who goes to holiday parties with his wife of thirty years, makes small talk with neighbors, and takes his sailboat out on the weekends. Behind the exterior of his picture-perfect life, Artie deals with feelings of isolation and wonders how people can know so little about those around them. When Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him that could change his entire life, he finds himself on a new life path that he never expected.
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Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel (5/5)
Seventy-seven-year old Pepper Mills was reluctant to move into the Vista View Retirement Community in Austin, TX – a place her three grown children chose – but she not only made new friends but also fell in love. Shortly after, she is hit with exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion. Preparing for the worse, Pepper is shocked to find that she’s pregnant. As the rumor mill swirls, everyone is trying to get in on this story from press and paparazzi down to medical researchers.
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Both Things Can Be True by Jessica Guerrieri (5/19)
Frankie Gilmore is the wild sister who cracks jokes, got sober, and opened a bookstore – all while avoiding her past. Mere Gilmore is the nurturing type, a mother to a neurodivergent daughter, and unhappy in her marriage. While the two sisters lost their mother at a young age to cancer, survived a mentally ill father, and lived with traumatic sexual violence, they both have their own ways of coping. When one of Frankie’s friends goes missing, the two sisters are pulled into a mystery that forces them to both confront their pasts.
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Land by Maggie O’Farrell (6/2)
Tomas and his son, Liam, are working for the great Ordance Survey project to map Ireland in 1965. While the country was ravaged by the Great Hunger, the task proves to be difficult, but Tomas is determined he can provide a record of the disaster. After an encounter with a corpse, Tomas’s plans are thrown off and the British soldiers are due to arrive expecting the work to be done. While Tomas is distracted, ten-year-old Liam worries that he may have to finish the mapping in order to get his family’s lives back on course.
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Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See (6/9)
In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in Los Angeles. Dove is the daughter of an imperial scholar who is beginning an arranged marriage to a much older merchant. Petal is the daughter of peasants who grew up poor and has been sold by her father for rice seed. Moon is the wife of a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine who is educated and beautiful but deals with a limp after a failed footbinding. All three women want something different yet are faced with a society that wishes them harm being the large Anti-Chinese sentiment in Los Angeles. When the Night of Horrors occurs, all three women are challenged in ways they could have never imagined and they must rely on their own strengths to survive.
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Arrivals and Departures by Amanda Eyre Ward (6/16)
Some may say the Perkins family have issues. Glamorous reality TV star, Lee, struggles with her mental health now that she’s in the spotlight; Younger sister, Reagan, has fallen for a scammer; Charming brother, Cord, is struggling with alcohol; and their mother, Charlotte, is still reeling from a love she let go of a decade ago. When Reagan disappears, Lee flies to Athens to be with her family and find her sister. Now, the whole Perkins family must confront their demons and answer the question of whether it’s ever too late to choose love.
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The Top of the World by Ethan Joella (6/30)
In June 1975, Maggie Bishop has graduated high school and has her whole life ahead of her, but she still is grieving the death of her older brother, Chip. After a devastating diagnosis, Chip left home for a few months the summer before and never told Maggie where he went. Wanting to know more, her investigation leads her to The Red Maple Inn, a resort in the Poconos. Meeting the tight-knit community there, Maggie finally gets answers about Chip’s final days while also connecting with those he knew.
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Sunlight Finds You by Laura Moriarty
Set in 1949 Florida, Sunlight Finds You follows seventeen-year-old Nora as she falls deeply in love with Leonard, only to be torn away when his family’s suspicions force her out of their lives. Her desperate choice in the aftermath leads to lasting secrets and betrayals that shape her adulthood. Told from a wiser, older perspective, Nora’s story reflects on love, forgiveness, and the hard-earned journey toward trusting oneself.
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Under the Falls by Richard Russo (8/11)
When he was eighteen, Tyler Sinclair left Stone Mountain with nothing but a duffel bag of clothes and his guitar. Now, eighteen years later, he is the frontman of a famous band named Stone Mountain. Returning to his hometown for a one-night-only benefit to support an old friend, Tyler is confronted with childhood memories that prove to him the past is never ready to let go. During the concert, Tyler is found face-to-face with a cast of characters that hold resentments making Tyler question if Stone Mountain is the kind of place he can escape from twice.
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