Let's Celebrate the 10 Best Books of July

After a sudden accident, Sadie is in the hospital with face blindness and she suddenly can’t tell people apart. Now doesn’t seem to be a good time to fall in love, especially with two different men. 

It’s Nina’s time to shine – her ex is on the other side of the country, her father is finally in a good place after becoming a widower and her daughter is doing well in boarding school, so it’s Nina’s turn. She’s ecstatic to be the first Black female head of a prestigious school. But, she meets her nemesis at work, her daughter accuses a teacher of misconduct and a choice she has made may change the course of her life. Maybe it won't be smooth after all.

If you’re a sucker for a true romance, you’ll love this deep dive into one of Hollywood’s iconic couples. From their separate formative years to their wild romance to their other relationships, Mann covers it all, also taking a critical eye on the effect of their romantic choices on their careers.

This historical novel is based on the true story of Marie-Louise Christophe, a Black woman and Queen of Haiti in the e early 19th century. After her husband is overthrown, she flees with her daughters to Europe, competing with other royalty to become the toast of society in a new land. 

After years of striving for perfection as the scholarship kid at her elite New England school, Adina slips up and is blacklisted from her first choice Ivy League college. Her only chance at redemption comes in the form of a mysterious competition held by her school’s founding family. The winner will have the family’s influence at their side – if they can stay alive throughout the trials. 

After Amy, during a night of drunken revenge, sabotages her boss/boyfriend’s car, her career in TV is torpedoed. She moves to London for a fresh start and after rocky beginnings, she finds her groove two years later with the promise of a better job and possibly a new love interest. But then, the past comes back to haunt her.

The narrator of this novel and her sister hit up a strange bar of misfits in L.A. and the night devolves into a haze of pills, risk and violence. Now her sister is missing. The narrator’s new job at a hospital gives her unhealthy access to prescription drugs and other shady characters, leading to an identity crisis, questions about what really happened to her sister and who she wants to be.

Just like the famous Chicks' song, this book tells the story of friends, sisterhood and protecting those you love. If a few Earls get harmed in the process, so be it. 

The neighbors of Alton Road gather for a summer blowout, but one winds up dead in this mystery novel. Discovering the murderer will first entail untangling the secrets, scandals, rivalries and betrayals of this jumbled bunch. 

In the safe-seeming Stanhope, the residents go on edge when a little girl goes missing. The last person to see her was her father, who, in the midst of an affair, suffers a bad breakup and comes home angry to find his daughter Avery unexpectedly there. Witnesses come forward and their information is unreliable at best. Someone knows where Avery is, but where is the actual truth?