11 Books to Bury Your Nose In This Summer

The latest from Pullitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler journeys through decades of Willa Drake's life, leading to the present-day, in which a spontaneous decision to travel across the country to care for a family she's never met re-routes her narrative.

Li's buzzy debut novel chronicles the personal dramas (big and small) of those who work at Maryland's family-owned Beijing Duck House.

A mysterious meditation on grief, The Third Hotel (literally) follows Clare through the streets of Havana, Cuba, after she spots her dead husband standing outside a museum. 

An unlikely romance anchored in an act of extremist violence, The Incendiaries examines the transformative powers of love and loss.

In this long overdue memoir, single and child-free N.Y.C. writer and editor Glynnis MacNicol reflects on her life at age 40—reckoning (Eat, Pray, Love style) with a future that women "of a certain age" aren't expected to lead. 

Ricocheting between time periods, The Summer Wives tells the juicy generation-spanning tale of the elite summer hideaway Winthrop Island from the perspectives of both wealthy vacations and the working class set who've done their bidding for decades.  

Shifting between the wide-eyed excitement of a young girl swept into 1949's Miss Subways beauty pageant and the high-pressure environment of a present-day N.Y.C. advertising agency, The Subway Girls intertwines two distinct narratives in a tale highlighting the unexpected commonalities between us all. 

From the author of the captivating psychological thriller Dare Me comes the tale of former high school friends whose dark past overshadows the present when they're reunited later in life—this time as rivals. 

This twisty novel by the author of bestseller The Girl Before follows a struggling actress-turned-divorce-firm-decoy who's ensnared in a murder case. Think The Girlfriend Experience meets Girl on the Train. 

Inspired by Brooks's own experiences as a mother, Parenthood In the Age of Fear offers an incisive, relatable, in-depth examination of how anxiety and parenting go hand-in-hand. 

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, Slaughter's protagonist has her world turned upside down when she learns that her mother (whom she thought she knew best) has a dangerous past and former identity threatening to eclipse all hope of a future.