L’summer among the seasons that follow one another during the year, it is perhaps one of the periods in which we are most inclined to reading. Is it because we have a little more free time or maybe because we have the desire to escape from our lives for a break from the daily grind?
Whatever the answer, which is certainly not the same for everyone, let’s try not to be unprepared for the desire to nourish the mind and heart with new exciting readings. In this article we discover, in fact, 10 books that have just been released or are soon to be published, to read this summer. Happy reading and happy summer!
Summer 2024, 10 books to read coming out
“Crime Between the Pages” by Miranda James
There are readings that, more than others, scream “summer”. Which ones if not the detective stories? If you want a good mystery, we suggest a New York Times best seller that has bewitched American readers. Plus, it’s a mystery set in the world of books!
In Athena, Mississippi, everyone knows Charlie Harris, the good-natured librarian with a Maine Coon cat named Diesel that he walks on a leash.
He returns to his hometown to immerse himself in books, but soon finds himself embroiled in a thriller that takes place in real life. Godfrey Priest, famous bestselling author and Charlie’s former classmate, may be Athena’s pride, but Charlie remembers him as an arrogant and manipulative idiot, and he’s not the only one.
His return as a distinguished alumnus couldn’t go worse: by lunchtime he sends a man to hospital. For dinner, however, the dead man is Godfrey himself. Now it’s up to Charlie, with the help of the feline Diesel, to search through the city’s rancor and find the killer before an overeager deputy turns on the wrong person.
But as if the murder itself wasn’t already complicated enough to solve, all of Charlie’s friends and colleagues had a score to settle with the hated writer…
“I’ll Wait for You in Central Park” by Felicia Kingsley
Among the eagerly awaited returns this summer is Felicia Kingsley’s new book, for those who want an enveloping, ironic and romantic read. Books, in particular the world of publishing, also come straight into this suggestion.
Knight Underwood has it all: a posh loft on the Upper East Side, a line of women at the door, and his dream job. Almost.
He is the editor who holds the record for bestsellers published by Pageturner Publishing and the promotion to editorial director is around the corner.
Unfortunately, he hasn’t dealt with what is destined to become his thorn in his side: Victoria Wender. She is also an excellent editor and publishing houses across the country competed to have her: not only did she bet on romance, but she transformed her top author, Miranda Stoller, into the queen of sales.
Victoria has just landed in New York from Texas and is ready to revolutionize Pageturner’s catalog to consolidate its shaky balance sheet. But… not with Knight’s help!
“Like the bitter orange” by Milena Palminteri
If this summer you are looking for an engaging novel that tells of a past not too distant from ours, of intersecting destinies and family mysteries, we have the title for you.
Agrigento, 1960. Carlotta is thirty-six years old and is convinced that no loved one can remain close to her. Growing up during the twenty years and the war, in a Sicily where everything has always changed to remain unchanged, Carlotta has learned that the only way not to suffer is to be bored with patience. So, after studying law, instead of fighting to become a lawyer, she locked herself away to work at the notarial archive.
But fate chases us even if we hide: it is precisely one of the dusty documents in the Archive that reveals her terrible accusation addressed by her paternal grandmother to her mother, that she had not given birth to her but bought her.
“Limitless” by Elsie Silver
If your passion is “exotic” romances that tell impossible love stories, this summer your reading desire could be satisfied by “Senzalimiti”.
Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than Willa and barely looks at her. He is a gruff man, decidedly rude. But she, as a good city girl, has a weakness for broad-shouldered cowboys. What’s the point of resisting? Cade hired Willa as a babysitter, and she better be professional…
But it’s hard not to fall into temptation when she watches him play with little Luke. Yes, because Cade is not only terribly sexy, but he is also a model father, and his son is an angel to whom it is impossible not to get attached. The problem is that something in the past has irreparably damaged Cade’s faith in love and convinced him that it is better to keep people at a distance.
“The life of those who remain” by Matteo B. Bianchi
This book, which will be released soon in the summer, is of rare intensity and power. It tells, as the title says, “of those who remain”, with courage, sometimes desperation, other times sense of guilt, still other times resentment. Of those who remain, despite everything, to live even for those who have decided not to.
“When you come back I won’t be here anymore.” These are S.’s last words to Matteo, spoken on the phone on an autumn day in 1998. S. is finishing removing his things from Matteo’s apartment after the end of their love story. That day Matteo returns home, the house where they lived together for seven years, and discovers that S. has taken his own life.
Since those moments, more than twenty-five years have passed, during which Matteo B. Bianchi has never stopped shaping these pages of excruciating beauty in his head.
“Single Honeymoon” by Olivia Hayle
This, however, is a beautiful story of love and revenge, perfect for cheering up late summer afternoons.
A paradise island. Two strangers. An attraction that unexpectedly overwhelms them… When Eden dumps her ex before the wedding, after discovering that he was cheating on her, the last thing she expects is to go on her honeymoon anyway, alone. However, since there is no refund, she decides to pack her bags and go anyway.
His plan is to relax on the beach, swim in the crystal clear ocean waters and drink cocktails, hoping to lick his wounds. What he doesn’t expect, however, is the abrupt and charming stranger who sits at his table on his first evening.
“The Chestnut of a Hundred Horses” by Cristina Cassar Scalia
Just released in bookstores, Cassar Scalia’s latest work is the perfect read for this summer if you love crime novels set in Sicily.
«La Boscaiola» was a shy type, but he didn’t bother anyone: one of those people who don’t seem to have friends or even enemies. Yet someone killed her.
Then he raged on his corpse as if he had a specific intent. A new case for Vanina Guarrasi. At the foot of the Chestnut of the Hundred Horses, a centuries-old tree that grows on the slopes of Etna, two forest rangers find the body of a brutally murdered woman.
“Tomorrow, tomorrow” by Francesca Giannone
Here is another book that we are convinced will lighten the summer of many Italian readers.
Salento, 1959. Lorenzo and Agnese have lost everything. And they understand it when, with the sad eyes that he has carried with him all his life, the father announces that he has sold the family soap factory, an inheritance that he experienced as a condemnation.
For Lorenzo and Agnese, however, that factory that their grandfather created from nothing, which smells of talc, floral essences and vegetable oils, and which occupies their every thought, was the certainty of a peaceful present and the promise of a future. to be traced together, united.
This is the story of the passion that first unites and then divides a brother and a sister. A story that talks about decisions made by listening to the mind or the heart or both.
Of that moment that can change an entire life. But also of an Italy which, in disbelief, is discovering a sudden well-being, which works on the assembly line and then sings with Mina and dances to the rhythm of the twist, young, creative, impatient…
“Biting the sky” by Paolo Crepet
For those who want an essay this summer, we suggest Paolo Crepet’s new book.
Where have our emotions gone today? Asking this is not a rhetorical exercise, but a necessary question. We live in a world in which wars, epochal migrations and new emergencies contribute to creating a sense of precariousness, pushing us to believe that the only plausible ways to survive are denial and fear.
But, for those who want to look for it, the antidote is there. It’s empathy. Sharing personal memories, encounters and reflections, Paolo Crepet passionately urges us to rebel against indifference, not to be afraid of our ideas or even our stumbles.
“The snow at the bottom of the sea” by Matteo Bussola
Matteo Bussola also returns to bookstores this summer with a work with the “oxymoronic” title.
Matteo Bussola talks about a knot of our time: adolescent fragility. He writes a touching, grace-filled story about the betrayal of becoming yourself. And he shows us, with honesty and delicacy, what it feels like to face the pain of a child, but also the light of being parents, which continues to shine even in the darkness.
Because it is difficult to accept the truth of those we love, especially if we brought them into the world. But love always brings with it a rebirth. A father and son, inside a room. Facing each other, as they have never been. Each a mirror of the other. The two of them, together, in a child neuropsychiatry department.
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