A few months ago, we began adding a new feature to many of our articles — including our seasonal previews and weekly editors’ choice columns — enabling people to save the books they’ve read, and that they want to read. Thousands of you have made good use of it by adding titles to your personal reading lists. Here are the new books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season.
You can save the books you’re most excited about on a personal reading list, and find even more recommendations from our book experts.
Fiction
1. What Kind of Paradise
by Janelle Brown
A father and daughter are living off the grid in Montana when Jane, a perspicacious teenager, begins to realize that her dad isn’t who he says he is. Read our review.
2. Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Reid, the author of “Daisy Jones & The Six,” infuses the stratospheric tension of a 1980s space mission with a cosmic love story. Read our review.
3. Maggie; Or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
by Katie Yee
Yee’s delightful and quirky novel takes place during a series of pauses — between divorce and marriage, sickness and health, the unknown and the status quo. Read our review.
4. Flashlight
by Susan Choi
Absences — of relatives, family memories and a historical record — abound in Choi’s slippery and explosive novel, which hinges on a Korean American family’s fateful trip to Japan. Read our review.
5. The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
For their third thriller written together, Clinton and Patterson dream up a political nightmare: The president’s husband is on trial for murder as she is up for re-election. Read more in our summer preview.
6. I’ll Be Right Here
by Amy Bloom
In a multigenerational tale of love, compassion and found family, a young Frenchwoman lands in New York after World War II and develops a close friendship with two sisters while reconnecting with her adopted older brother. Read our review.
7. Meet Me at the Crossroads
by Megan Giddings
The sudden appearance of seven mysterious doors across the world draws attention from religious sects, billionaires and everyday people who speculate over what lies on the other side. Read more in our summer preview.
8. So Far Gone
by Jess Walter
When his grandchildren are kidnapped, a journalist and a recluse living in the woods near Spokane, Wash., springs into action to locate them with an unlikely crew. Read our review.
9. My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
Obsessed with a famous painting, a young woman sets out to understand its provenance — and learns more than she bargained for. Read our review.
10. Among Friends
by Hal Ebbott
On a weekend away, minor incidents expose cracks in the “smooth, edgeless” lives of two wealthy families, revealing underlying resentments that culminate in betrayal. Read more in our summer preview.
Nonfiction
1. Murderland
by Caroline Fraser
The Pacific Northwest was once known for both its toxic industry and its serial killers. Fraser connects the two, tracing links between the poisoned air, water and soil, and the violence perpetrated by men like Ted Bundy and Charles Manson. Read our review.
2. The Gunfighters
by Bryan Burrough
This myth-busting look at the Wild West — replete with outlaws, cattle drives and carnage — focuses on Texas, at the crossroads of anarchic frontier culture and the Old South. Read our review.
3. The Beast in the Clouds
by Nathalia Holt
In 1928-29, Theodore Roosevelt’s two eldest sons went on a swashbuckling global adventure to prove the existence of the until-then mystical panda bear. Comes out July 1.
4. The Dry Season
by Melissa Febos
Febos — a self-described serial monogamist — decides to give up sex and dating at 35, if only for three months. “To my great surprise,” she writes, those months were “the happiest of my life,” and turned into a year. Read our interview with Febos.
5. A Marriage at Sea
by Sophie Elmhirst
In the early ’70s, a married couple, sailing to New Zealand, spent a harrowing 117 days stranded at sea after a whale crashed into their boat. Comes out July 8.
6. Anonymous Male
by Christopher Whitcomb
A former F.B.I. sniper falls off the grid in Somalia, raises a private army in Southeast Asia, survives a coup d’état and lives clandestinely for years until a near-death experience forces him to reassess his life. Comes out Aug. 19.
7. How to Lose Your Mother
by Molly Jong-Fast
The daughter of Erica Jong — now an esteemed writer in her own right — offers an unflinching, albeit not unkind, reflection on mothers and daughters. Read our review.
8. Buckley
by Sam Tanenhaus
A rich, immersive biography exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement through the life of the firebrand writer and commentator who shaped it. Read our review.
9. King of Kings
by Scott Anderson
This account of the 1979 Iranian revolution unravels the story of how the nation’s seemingly invulnerable leader, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, was forced into exile, and how the ensuing hostage crisis rattled American confidence. Comes out Aug 5.
10. Dinner With King Tut
by Sam Kean
Kean follows “experimental archaeologists” as they recreate ancient life by hunting with primitive spears, baking with ancient yeast strains and building Roman-style roads. Comes out July 8.
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