There’s quite a few books this month that range all over with genres, subjects, and timelines. There’s a few from previously read authors as well as some debut authors. I’m even including some manga this time around!!
June 2, 2026
A story about a father and son who are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one.
By: Maggie O’Farrell
In this debut novel, a giant jellyfish is terrorizing a tiny island off the coast of Maine and a marine biologist who prefers jellyfish over people rushes across the country to try and help.
By: Tessa Yang
From the author of Rez Ball, comes a new YA novel about a young Ojibwe athlete learning to ride in his late father’s footsteps while practicing for a skateboarding championship with his crew.
By: Byron Graves
After her mother’s sudden death, Jihad joins an exclusive high school. But, she’s the only Muslim student and everything about her makes her suspicious to her classmates. After finding her mother’s old sketchbook, Jihad’s own canvas become bigger than she would every imagine.
By: Zoulfa Katouh
Guinevere Sharpe has had two childhoods. One, she lives in the wooded shadow of her family’s isolated Vermont farmhouse, growing up near-feral, unwashed and underfed – the woods her and her siblings playground; in the other, she’s apart of her mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where her magical adventures have made her a household name. Now an adult, Guinevere looks back on her childhood, before the fire that left her mother’s series unfinished, and tries to find out what really happened.
By: Melissa Albert
A Queer retelling of Sleep Beauty that tackles escapism, grief, and dreaming of a better world.
The Secret World of Briar Rose
By: Cindy Pham
In this homage to The Face on the Milk Carton a trans boy discovers he was kidnapped as a child and that his birth parents are out there still searching… for their daughter.
By: Mia Siegert
A historical graphic novel based on the true story of Operación Pedro Pan, a joint effort between the U.S. government and the Catholic Welfare Bureau to evacuate 14,000 children from Cuba to the U.S. between 1960 and 1962.
By: Andre R. Frattino & Yasmin Flores Montanez
From the author of one of my favorite heart wrenching YA novels, Yolk comes a new adult fiction about a mother-daughter relationship set against the backdrop of Hollywood.
By: Mary H.K. Choi
The sequel to one of my favorite Queer YA novels about a lady night and her lady!!!
By: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
June 9, 2026
In this new ovel from Dave Eggers, two friends believe they can change the world as they challenge the rules and market forces within the art community.
By: Dave Eggers
June 16, 2026
Told in multiple POVs, this YA novel is an Indigenous murder-mystery set in Costa Rica about a Bribri-American teenager searching for the truth behind her land-activist father’s mysterious death.
By: Ari Tison
A young musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other after getting separated at a Beijing Railway Station.
By: Sophie Chen Keller
A historical fiction manga about girls from a boarding school in Japan who are recruited to help as assistant nurses during WWII.
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By: Machiko Kyo
A mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is causing those effected to not be able to go outside during the day.
By: Heather Abel
June 23, 2026
In this fun detective noir, all the characters are animals who are fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans.
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
From one of my favorite manga author, Gengoroh Tagame, comes a story two “straight” friends, living in the middle of COVID, and who might just be gay.
By: Gengoroh Tagame, Anne Ishii (Translator)
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