7 New & Notable Books Coming in June 2026

Tomás and his ten-year-old son Liam have been tasked with mapping Ireland in 1865. The country is still reeling from the Great Hunger, and Tomás is determined to make his map a record of the disaster. 

But when they stumble on an unsettling encounter in a copse, Tomás changes in a way that disturbs Liam. With British soldiers expecting the work to be complete, it’s up to Liam to somehow finish and get them both home. 

He doesn’t know how he’s going to do it, all he knows is that their lives will never be the same.

Mina and her two best friends are everything to each other. But when the fifteen-year-old experiences an unexpected kiss, the dynamic between the trio quickly unravels. 

As an adult looking back on that summer, Mina is forced to reexamine the origins of her longing and desire. 

Can loving one person change how we love everyone else? And does that include how we love ourselves?

When Daphne Fuller was a girl, a fateful event changed the course of her life. Years later, fate intervenes again when she runs into Eddie Triplett, the man who was once her stepfather when she was nine. 

He and Daphne had a profound impact on each other, despite the marriage to her mother lasting only a year. And now that they’ve reunited, they are determined to never be separated again.

When thirty-two-year-old Aubrey Lamb learns that she has inherited a stake in a sizable amount of land in Tennessee, she gives up her gig-economy life in DC and heads to the country. 

But when she arrives, things are a bit more complicated than she imagined. The land comes with history, and the family members she shares it with do too. 

When tragedy strikes, Aubrey has to face the repercussions—both past and present—if she wants to keep the land in the family where it belongs.

What would you do if you had one chance to go back and live a different life? Dana and Nigel are given the opportunity to do exactly that. 

For one week, they’ll live a life in a reality where they never got married. At first, they’re both enchanted with their new lives. But when they happen to meet in Bali, Dana recognizes Nigel immediately. 

He only feels an inexplicable connection. And then they find out there’s a catch to their wishes. When their week is over, they won’t be able to seamlessly slip back into their previous lives. 

As the week ends, they’ll both be forced to make an impossible choice. One that will test the foundation of their love and their lives, forever.

Giovedi is hired to archive the contents of a beautiful but crumbling mansion in the hills of Tuscany. Or, so he thought. 

But his day-to-day duties are a bit stranger. Lisabette, known to her friends as Coco, has him rid the house of the mysterious marten, entertain her bohemian and royal guests, and even rob a funeral of an urn. 

But as the summer wanes, the secrets of the town’s inhabitants come to light, showing Giovedi the power of lifelong friendships.

Nominated twice for her short fiction, Joyce Carol Oates is back with a stunning new collection. 

Each story focuses on a character in crisis, in that desperate moment before a choice when confusion reigns as what they know about themselves and the people they love unravels.

What follows is a dissection of their greatest fears. And by reading theirs, you just might reveal your own.