These are the books which come out in June that I hope to get and read. I keep a list of all the books I might want to read and add to it as the year goes on. As each month comes along I create a list on my blog for others and for me to keep track of as
the months go by.
I don’t buy all these books–since I already have way too many books to read and some of the new books are expensive. I’m trying to stick to a budget! I occasionally request books from NetGalley and from my local library.
I hope people reading my post find some new books to read. I also hope readers will point me toward books I missed.
June 6
Shiver Hitchby Linda Greenlaw
Series: Jane Bunker #3
Published by Minotaur Books (originally published in 2000)
Genre: Mystery
304 pages
Synopsis: Jane Bunker thought she’d escaped the pollution, noise, and dead bodies of the big city when she left her job as a Miami homicide detective and moved back to the idyllic town of Green Haven, Maine. But through her work as a marine insurance investigator, it appears she’s left behind the bustle of the city, but not the murder.
When Jane is called to the remote Acadia Island to assess the damages from a house fire, she also finds a badly burned body in the charred rubble, and it turns out that the victim is the owner of the house, a wealthy woman who just happens to be one of the most hated women in town. As Jane investigates further, she becomes embroiled in a plot as thick as New England clam chowder, which involves convicted felons, a real estate scam, and the deep conflicts between the locals and the summer folks. On top of trying to find what might be a murderer on the loose, Jane is still living with her bonkers landlords, the Vickersons, who are delighted when Jane finds out that her brother Wally (who has Down’s syndrome) is going to move in with them, after losing his assisted living arrangement. It’s all Jane can do to keep all the moving pieces together, much less figure out who would want to burn someone alive–and why.
by Mary Weber
Series: The Evaporation of Sofi Snow #1
Published by Thomas Mercer
Genre: YA Science Fiction
352 pages
Synopsis: Ever since the Delonese ice-planet arrived eleven years ago, Sofi’s dreams have been vivid. Alien. In a system where Earth’s corporations rule in place of governments and the humanoid race orbiting the moon are allies, her only constant has been her younger brother, Shilo. As an online gamer, Sofi battles behind the scenes of Earth’s Fantasy Fighting arena where Shilo is forced to compete in a mix of real and virtual blood sport. But when a bomb takes out a quarter of the arena, Sofi’s the only one who believes Shilo survived. She has dreams of him. And she’s convinced he’s been taken to the ice-planet.
Except no one but ambassadors are allowed there.
For Miguel, Earth’s charming young playboy, the games are of a different sort. As Ambassador to the Delonese, his career has been built on trading secrets and seduction. Until the Fantasy Fight’s bomb goes off. Now the tables have turned and he’s a target for blackmail. The game is simple: Help the blackmailers, or lose more than anyone can fathom, or Earth can afford.
June 8
by Jodi Taylor
Series: The Chronicles of St. Mary’s #9 (all shorts)
Published by Accent Press LTD
Genre: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Short Stories
320 pages
Synopsis: Follow the disaster magnets of St Mary’s as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St Mary’s Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time.
When a Child is Born – A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the Conqueror goes slightly astray.
Roman Holiday – Max and her team become spectacularly involved with Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and a basket of confused asps.
Christmas Present – An attempt to rescue lost historians involving an enraged pig and Boudicca herself.
The Very First Damned Thing – Discover the truth about the very beginning of St Mary’s.
Ships and Stings and Wedding Rings – A gun left behind in Ancient Egypt and a race against time to prevent a catastrophe.
The Great St Mary’s Day Out – Hooray! It’s a happy holiday. For everyone except Max – the only one with her mind on the job.
My Name is Markham – Alfred, the cakes and Mr Markham. The Great British Bake Off it’s not!
And a bonus – a new and previously unpublished short story.
June 13
Down Among the Sticks and Bones
by Seanan McGuire
Series: Wayward Children #2
Published by Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy Novella
176 pages
Synopsis: Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children.
This is the story of what happened first…
Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.
Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you’ve got.
They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted.
They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.
by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Series: Unknown
Published by William Morrow
Genre: Science Fiction, Time Travel, Thriller
768 pages
Synopsis: From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.
Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace—the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world “jams” the “frequencies” used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.
And so the Department of Diachronic Operations—D.O.D.O. —gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial—and treacherous—nature of the human heart.
Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places—and times—beyond imagining.
June 27
by Tom Bourman
Series: Henry Farrell #2
Published by W.W. Norton Company
Genre: Mystery, Police Procedural
368 pages
Synopsis: In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, summer has brought Officer Henry Farrell nothing but trouble. Heroin has arrived with a surge in burglaries and other crime. When local carpenter Kevin O’Keeffe admits that he shot a man and that his girlfriend, Penny, is missing, the search leads the small-town cop to an industrial vice district across state lines that has already ensnared more than one of his neighbors. With the patience of a hunter, Farrell ventures into a world of shadow beyond the fields and forests of home.
June 30
The Furthest Station by Ben Aaronovitch
Series: Peter Grant/Rivers of London #5.7
Published by Subterranean Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy Novella
144 pages
Synopsis: There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. But now there’s a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.
Enter PC Peter Grant junior member of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Assessment unit a.k.a. The Folly a.k.a. the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting. Together with Jaget Kumar, his counterpart at the British Transport Police, he must brave the terrifying the crush of London’s rush hour to find the source of the ghosts.
Joined by Peter’s wannabe wizard cousin, a preschool river god and Toby the ghost hunting dog their investigation takes a darker tone as they realise that a real person’s life might just be on the line.
And time is running out to save them.
What books are you excited to get this month?
Most of these had escaped my radar. My daughter loved the first Wayward Children novella, so I knew the sequel was coming out, but that’s the only one. Both The Evaporation of Sofi Snow and The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. sound really intriguing; I’ll keep an eye out for them!
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There are a lot of good books coming out this month. I hope we both get to read some of them!
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Shiver Hitch sounds really good and I’ve been wanting to try something from Linda Greenlaw. Most of June is already booked up review wise but I’m hoping to sneak some romantic suspense in! That’s what I’m in the mood for at the moment.
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Linda Greenlaw has written some interesting nonfiction about Maine that I would like to read. I hope you find some good romantic suspense and get the chance to read it this month, Katherine!
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