Six Newly Released Books To Read This Summer (2025)

Sounds Like Love follows Joni, a songwriter who returns home in hopes of curing her writer’s block. Unfortunately, her hometown of Vienna Shores is changing, which worsens her songwriting struggle and leaves her feeling left behind.

This quickly changes when she hears a man playing an addictive melody that she believes must be too good to be true. He, however, is genuine and is also struggling with his songwriting.

Together, they’ll work to heal each other’s writer's block and hope it doesn’t break them in the process.

Don’t Let Him In focuses on two strangers, Nina and Martha, who are set to cross paths at the hands of the men in their lives, Nick and Alistair.

Nick is charming and a family friend to Nina, but Nina’s daughter Ash isn’t convinced of his good nature. Ash begins to secretly dig into Nick’s past, and what she finds changes everything.

Meanwhile, Alastair is Martha’s husband, who’s busier with work than ever before and is constantly traveling or missing from home for days at a time. No matter what Martha asks, he answers, but should she believe him?

How will Nick and Alistair cause the lives of both families to collide? 

A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping centers on Sera and Luke. Sera was considered one of the most powerful witches in Britain until the return (resurrection) of her aunt Jasmine. 

Upon her aunt’s return, Sera loses most of her magic abilities and is exiled from her guild as a result. Now, the most magical thing in her life is Aunt Jasmine’s enchanted inn, which she agrees to help run.

Before long, she finds out about a spell that could restore her power once and for all, but will she be able to pull it off?

Enter Luke, a magical historian who finds himself at Jasmine’s inn with Sera, agreeing to help with her spell. Will the magic between them be the key to reclaiming Sera’s abilities?

How to Survive a Horror Story follows seven authors who are invited to the mansion of Mortimer Queen, a legendary horror author who has recently passed away.

Mortimer’s last horror is one that these seven authors will have to live and try to escape. Filled with riddles and thrills, the group must progress through each room of the mansion before it’s too late.

This mansion, however, is more than it seems. Built on the bones of Mortimer’s family, this house is hungry for more, and these seven authors are just what it wants.

The Seven Miracles of Beatrix Holland highlights the life of Beatrix, who does NOT believe in magic. In fact, Beatrix is such a non-believer that when a celebrity psychic tells her she’ll experience seven miracles shortly before her death, she pays it no mind.

But as each miracle and near-death experience passes her by, she starts to fear the magic she’d been misjudging all her life. The same miracles that are changing her life for the better may be the ones that tear her away from them. 

As Beatrix is determined to learn about magic and the power she holds, her niece Minna goes missing. Will this be her last miracle before she’s torn away from her family forever?

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us revolves around the authoritarian state of Qin, where the days of memories shared between strangers as we know it are long gone. 

In the state of Qin, each citizen is given an intracranial device known as a Mindbank that easily transfers memories between minds. This advancement results in a new economy, Memory Capitalism, which allows virtually anyone to corrupt, edit, or market someone else’s Mindbank.

As a man inherits his mother’s Mindbank after her death, he embarks on a mission to share her memories of the global war affecting Qin before they’re destroyed, even if it means risking his own life.