July 2025 Book Releases To Read This Summer

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Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new July 2025 book releases for you. I’ll let you know what I’ve read, what I can’t wait to read, and what’s getting all the attention this month.


In case you’re new to Booklist Queen, every month I cover all the hottest new book releases. I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip. 

However, I realize that my to-read list might not exactly match yours. That’s why I’ve also included some of the most popular July 2025 book releases from your favorite authors. 

Enough from me, let’s get on to the July 2025 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.

Top July 2025 Book Releases

book cover The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in Suite 11

Ruth Ware

In a sequel to the bestseller The Woman in Cabin 10, Lo Blacklock receives an invitation to the opening of a luxury Swiss hotel owned by billionaire Marcus Leidmann. Ready to get her career going after the birth of her first child, Lo must navigate the changes in post-Covid travel journalism. While trying to get an interview with Marcus, Lo gets a middle of the night summons to his suite. But instead of Marcus, Lo is faced with his mistress caught in a life-or-death situation.

Publication Date: 8 July 2025
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book cover She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena

She Didn’t See It Coming

Shari Lapena

Bryden and Sam have thriving careers and a picture-perfect family life with their young daughter in a luxury condo building. When Bryden fails to pick up their daughter from daycare, Sam comes home to find her car, phone and keys but no Bryden. As the police race to find Bryden, the family’s life and neighbors don’t seem as picture perfect as they appear.

Publication Date: 29 July 2025
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book cover The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani

The View From Lake Como

Adriana Trigiani

Recently divorced, Jess Capodimonte Baratta is the overlooked daughter who dutifully takes care of her parents and family while neglecting her own dreams. When tragedy strikes, Jess decides to move to Italy to find herself and explore her family history. As Jess begins to discover a place for herself, she meets an intriguing artist who reminds her of her own talents just as the truth of her family’s past threatens to pull her under.

Publication Date: 8 July 2025
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book cover Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

Everyone Is Lying to You

Jo Piazza

Bex was Lizzie’s best friend in college until she disappeared after graduation. Now, Bex has remade herself into Rebecca Somers, a tradwife influencer chronicling her life on a ranch with her husband Grey. Out of the blue, Bex offers Lizzie an exclusive interview and a trip to the large influencer conference. When Bex disappears and Grey is murdered, Lizzie must dive into the sordid side of the real lives of the tradwife influencer scene.

Publication Date: 15 July 2025
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book cover You Don't Belong Here by Megan Miranda

You Belong Here

Megan Miranda

Beckett Bowery never expected to return to Wyatt Valley, the beautiful mountain town where her parents are professors at a small college. Decades earlier, Beckett’s college best friend disappeared after setting a fire that killed two locals and everyone thought Beckett knew more than she let on. When Beckett’s daughter Delilah decides to go to the same college, Beckett is on edge, knowing the town’s memory lasts a very long time.

Megan Miranda returns with another moody atmospheric thriller that didn’t have quite the punch of her other works. As usual, Miranda’s writing is excellent and paints a terrific setting. Unfortunately, the characters in You Belong Here failed to draw me into this slow burn mystery. Although it wasn’t that bad, I just didn’t love the story as much as her previous works and didn’t find her newest release that memorable.

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Publication Date: 29 July 2025
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book cover The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce

The Homemade God

Rachel Joyce

When their artist father dies, four siblings travel to the family’s lake house to piece together what happened to him. Vic had recently married a Bella-Mae, fifty years his junior, and moved to Italy to finish his long-awaited masterpiece. Living together for the first time in decades, the siblings must confront long-buried wounds as the await answers to their complicated father, all while their enigmatic stepmother’s presence looms over them.

Publication Date: 8 July 2025
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Book of the Month – July 2025

Receiving my blue box from Book of the Month Club is a highlight of every month.

Here’s how it works – each month, they pick 5-7 books and you get to choose one book or skip until the next month. If you want to add any extra books, then you get them at a discounted price.

Each month is usually a mix of new releases and advance copies of unreleased books. If you are interested in joining, right now you can use my Book of the Month Club affiliate link to get your first book for $5!

The July Book of the Month selections are:

Read with Jenna’s July 2025 Book Club Pick

book cover Happy Wife by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores

Happy Wife

Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores

Nora Davies life is going nowhere fast as she waits tables at a country club in Winter Park, Florida. When she meets recently divorced Will Somerset who is twenty years her senior, they set the country club set astir with their courtship and marriage. But when Will disappears after his birthday bash, Nora must prove her innocence and figure out what happened to Will.

Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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GMA’s July 2025 Book Club Pick

book cover The Compound by Aisling Rawle

The Compound

Aisling Rawle

With nineteen other contestants, Lily competes in a reality tv show where all she has to do is outlast her competitors by staying in The Compound the longest. During challenges, the contestants compete for luxuries like lipstick and necessities for the house like appliances. As Lily becomes closer to the others, the line between needs and wants starts to blur. As the producers push the contestants into riskier and riskier challenges, Lily begins to wonder how far she is willing to go to win.

Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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Reese’s Book Club July 2025 Pick

book cover Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein

Spectacular Things

Beck Dorey-Stein

Raised by a single mother in Maine, Mia and Cricket Lowe have always been close. While Mia has become the academically minded caretaker, Cricket has thrown herself into become a soccer superstar. As the two sisters grow, they must grapple with their mother’s past and how to balance loyalty to each other with their own wishes and desires as they make impossible choices to pursue their dreams.

Publication Date: 1 July 2025
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The Most Anticipated July 2025 Book Releases

book cover Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

Not Quite Dead Yet

Holly Jackson

The daughter of one of the wealthiest families in Woodstock, Vermont, Jet Mason has lived a normal, boring life. When she is attacked on Halloween, Jet receives a head injury that doctors say will kill her in the next week. That gives Jet seven days to solve her own murder and she can’t help but look at everyone – her parents, her best friend turned sister-in-law and her ex-boyfriend – in a new light.

Publication Date: 22 July 2025
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book cover The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline

The Unraveling of Julia

Lisa Scottoline

Julia Pritzker thinks she might be cursed after her adoptive parents die and her husband is murdered. Unexpectedly, Julia receives a letter that she has inherited a Tuscan estate from someone name Emilia Rossi. Wondering if Emilia is from her birth family, Julia travels to Italy to find she looks exactly like Emilia, a paranoid recluse who was also obsessed with astrology. As strange things begin to happen, Julia finds herself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy.

Publication Date: 15 July 2025
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book cover We Won't All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall

We Won’t All Survive

Kate Alice Marshall

Two years ago, Mercy Grey was a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting that left her with injuries and a mountain of medical debt. When a billionaire recruits her to a survivalist reality show, Mercy desperately needs the cash. When Mercy arrives at the off-grid location, the set is empty, the doors lock behind them and the contestants start dropping dead. Suddenly Mercy finds herself in a deadly struggle for survival where she doesn’t know who to trust.

Publication Date: 29 July 2025
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book cover Three Shattered Souls by Mai Corland

Three Shattered Souls

Mai Corland

In the third book of The Broken Blades series, the Blades find themselves still alive after the battle at Quu Harbor. Now they must return to Yusan to finish what they started. Even though they got rid of the god-king, the usurper who sits on the serpent throne is no better. With three relics in their possession, the Blades have the power to remake the kingdom, but will they lose themselves in the process?

Publication Date: 15 July 2025
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book cover An Inside Job by Daniel Silva

An Inside Job

Daniel Silva

Art restorer Gabriel Allon returns for another thrilling investigation. Hired to restore an important Venice painting, Allon is stunned to discover the body of a woman floating in the Venice Lagoon. The mysterious woman seems to be connected to a lost Leonardo da Vinci work, undiscovered in the museum’s back room and then stolen during a blackout. Now Allon finds himself caught up in journey through the art world’s dark side that may end of threatening the life of the pope.

Publication Date: 15 July 2025
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UPCOMING JULY 2025 BOOK RELEASES BY DATE

July 1st Book Releases

July 8th Book Releases

July 15th Book Releases

book cover The Nightshade God by Hannah Whitten

book cover The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

book cover Maid for Each Other by Lynn Painter

book cover The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

book cover A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna

book cover Wayward Girls by Susan Wiggs

book cover The Girl I Was by Jeneva Rose

book cover The Lake Escape by Jamie Day

book cover Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza

book cover Of Flame and Fury by Mikayla Bridge

book cover Midnight on the Potomac by Scott Ellsworth

book cover Lucky Break by Jaclyn Westlake

book cover My Train Leaves at Three by Natalie Guerrero

book cover Until Alison by Kate Russo

book cover The Greatest Possible Good by Ben Brooks

book cover Coded Justice by Stacey Abrams

book cover The Reluctant Flirt by Jennifer Probst

book cover Three Shattered Souls by Mai Corland

book cover The Idaho Four by James Patterson and Vicky Ward

James Patterson and Vicky Ward

book cover An Inside Job by Daniel Silva

book cover The Mission by Tim Weiner

book cover If You Love It, Let It Kill You by Hannah Pittard

book cover The Aviator and the Showman by Laurie Gwen Shapiro

book cover Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke

book cover The Unraveling of Julia by Lisa Scottoline

July 22nd Book Releases

book cover Rush Week by Michelle Brandon

book cover Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

book cover Greenwich by Kate Broad

book cover Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez

book cover That Last Carolina Summer by Karen White

book cover The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw

book cover Codebreaker by Jay Martel

book cover Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely

book cover Ink Ribbon Red by Alex Pavesi

book cover The List by Steve Berry

book cover Dead of Summer by Jessa Maxwell

book cover The Hamptons Lawyer by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

James Patterson and Mike Lupica

book cover Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

July 29th Book Releases

book cover She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena

book cover Glorious Rivals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

book cover Soul of Shadow by Emma Noyes

book cover The Lies They Told by Ellen Marie Wiseman

book cover Mean Moms by Emma Rosenblum

book cover We Won't All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall

book cover Under the Stars by Beatriz Williams

book cover Guess Again by Charlie Donlea

book cover Love Forms by Claire Adam

book cover Fade In by Kyle Mills

book cover Immortal Consquences by I. V. Marie

book cover Victory '45 by James Holland by Al Murray

James Holland and Al Murray

book cover You Don't Belong Here by Megan Miranda

What July 2025 Book Releases are You Most Excited to Read?

What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Did I miss any July 2025 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!

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