Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new June 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 June 2025 book releases from your favorite authors.
Enough from me, let’s get on to the June 2025 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.
Top June 2025 Book Releases
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
GMA Book Club June 2025 Pick: Taylor Jenkins Reid is always a book club favorite so of course she belongs on my list of top book club books in 2025. In the 1980s, Joan Goodwin loves her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. Until she sees an ad for the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Suddenly, Joan finds herself training to be an astronaut with a colorful cast of characters that teach her about the transformative power of love.
Publication Date: 3 June 2025
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Don’t Let Him In
Lisa Jewell
After her husband’s tragic death, Nina Swann was not looking for love again when she met his old friend Nick Radcliffe. Suddenly she is swept away by the perfect man but her adult daughter Ash feels like there is something dodgy about Nick. Meanwhile, Martha is a florist whose charming husband Alistair has started disappearing for days. As Martha, Nina, and Ash are set on a collision course, they learn the truth that a perfect man can be a perfect liar in this dark twisted thriller.
Publication Date: 24 June 2025
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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V. E. Schwab
V. E. Schwab writes about immortality and hunger through three different storylines spanning 500 years. In 1532, Maria is tied of being a pawn of men and jumps at an offer from a handsome stranger to take a different path. In 1827, Charlotte is shipped to London after an affair and takes an invitation from a beautiful widow. In 2019, Alice’s one-night-stand leaves her questioning all her life’s decisions.
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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With a Vengeance
Riley Sager
A decade ago, Anna Matheson’s family was destroyed by six people and she is ready for revenge. In 1953, she lures them all onto a overnight luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago. Anna is determined to get them to confess and turn them into the authorities when they arrive in Chicago. When a passenger is murdered, Anna realizes she must save her enemies before she can destroy them.
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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King of Ashes
S. A. Cosby
When his father is in a come after a car accident, Roman Carruthers returns home to help his sister run the family crematorium. When his younger brother confesses their father’s injury is because he is massively in debt to the local drug dealers, Roman sets out to use his skills as a finance whiz to make the problems go away. Except these gangsters aren’t like the wannabes he deals with in the music industry.
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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Book of the Month – June 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 June Book of the Month selections are:
Read with Jenna’s June 2025 Book Club Pick
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch
In 1982, Dawn is still adjusting to life as a new mother. When she meets Hazel, her world suddenly seems to light up again and Dawn is torn between the joy she feels with Hazel and the commitments she has made to her husband and daughter. Forty years later, Heron receives a life-changing diagnosis but can’t bear to tell his daughter Maggie about it or about all the secrets he’s kept from her. Split between two timelines, A Family Matter is a story of love and loss and complicated family.
Publication Date: 3 June 2025
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Reese’s Book Club June 2025 Pick
The Phoenix Pencil Company
Allison King
As a college freshman, Monica Tsai finds herself withdrawn from the other students as she codes for a program that brings strangers together. Monica hopes the program will help her locate her grandmother’s long lost cousin. Growing up in China, Yun and Meng worked for the Phoenix Pencil Company. When they discover they both of the ability to recreate words from old pencils, they are caught up in a world of espionage as war rages around them.
Publication Date: 3 June 2025
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Oprah’s Book Club June 2025 Pick
The River is Waiting
Wally Lamb
Cory Ledbetter has a new baby, has lost his job and is hiding a secret addiction from his wife. When he causes a tragedy that tears his family apart, Cory is sentenced to prison where he must adjust to a brutal life inside. With the help of a prison librarian, Cory begins to change and find transcendence. But is mercy and reconciliation even a possibility for crimes such as his?
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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The Most Anticipated June 2025 Book Releases
The First Gentleman
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
President Madeline Wright is up for reelection and she will do anything to stay in the Oval Office. While writing a story about the First Gentleman, two investigative reports stumble on the story that accuses him of murder. Decades earlier, Cole Wright was a NFL player when a cheerleader went missing. Now on trial for murder, the President must decide if she’s willing to stand by her husband.
Publication Date: 2 June 2025
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Sounds Like Love
Ashley Poston
Joni is one of the most coveted songwriters in LA but she’s plagued by writer’s block. She hopes that returning home to North Carolina will bring back her spark but nothing is how she left it. When she becomes haunted by melody sung by an alluring voice she is shocked when the voice belongs to a real man just arrived in town. He’s a bitter musician determined to write the song with her and break their telepathic connection.
Publication Date: 17 June 2025
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The Bachelorette Party
Camilla Sten
On a remote unknown Swedish island, four teenagers gather every year for a night of reckless fun until one day they disappear. Tessa Nilsson has been obsessed with the story of the missing teens, even staring a popular true crime podcast that has now crashed and burned. When Tessa’s best friend invites her to a bachelorette party at a new yoga retreat, Tessa can’t help but make connections to the story that has captivated her for years.
Publication Date: 10 June 2025
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
Kristin Harmel
In 1942, Colette Marceau and her mother were adroit jewel thieves until their lives unraveled. A German raid on their Paris home led to her mother’s capture and execution and her baby sister’s drowning while a valuable diamond bracelet vanishes. Seventy years later, Colette is determined to find answers when the bracelet suddenly reappears at a museum in Boston.
Publication Date: 17 June 2025
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Ten Incarnations of Rebellion
Vaishnavi Patel
Growing up in the British city of Kingston on the ashes of Bombay, Kalki Divekar lives in a world where the old men have been hunted out as rebels and the young men are taken away as recruits for a far-off war. When tragedy strikes, Kalki begins small acts of resistance against the British Empire which lead her to found an independence movement in this alternate version of 1960s India.
Publication Date: 3 June 2025
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Don’t Open Your Eyes
Liv Constantine
Annabelle’s life is perfect until she starts having terrifying nightmares where she loathes her husband and her daughters are in danger. When elements of her dreams start to come true, Annabelle realizes she is having premonitions of her future. When she has a glimpse of her daughter in immediate danger, Annabelle must desperately figure out what actions can change a future that seems already decided.
Publication Date: 17 June 2025
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UPCOMING JUNE 2025 BOOK RELEASES BY DATE
June 3rd Book Releases
Bill Clinton and James Patterson
June 10th Book Releases
June 17th Book Releases
June 24th Book Releases
What June 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 June 2025 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!
More New Book Releases:
- May 2025 Book Releases
- The Best Books of 2024
- Most-Anticipated Upcoming Releases
- Booklist Queen’s 2024 Reading Challenge
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