Can The 11 Best Books Of June Get You To Read More This Month?

World War II comes to a luxury hotel in West Virginia in Stiefvater’s new historical fiction novel. Nazi diplomats are being hidden at the Avallon Hotel & Spa in 1942, and general manager June must rally her staff to take care of their new guests, per the state department. An FBI agent is there to learn their secrets and there’s a mystical spring beneath the hotel that can harm, as well as heal. The three storylines converge in this thrilling spy tale.

From the author of "Daisy Jones & The Six" comes this fast-paced love story about a scientist vying to be one of the first women in space. It’s 1980 and NASA is assembling a team of the best, including Joan. Her bond with the other astronauts leads to love and bigger questions about Joan’s place in the universe.

Already in the works to be a movie on Netflix, this southern noir thriller takes inspiration from crime epics like “The Godfather.” Roman, the eldest of the Carruthers siblings, returns home after his father’s accident to find his brother entangled with dangerous criminals and his sister exhausted by running the family crematorium business. Roman needs to work with the gangsters to save his brother while his sister tries to uncover what happened to their mother decades ago. And did their father really have an accident?

Four friends meet up for a wild retreat every year on a secret Swedish island, until the last time, when they disappear. A decade later, Tessa has been trying to solve the mystery but even her true crime podcast can’t crack the case. Tessa’s best friend is planning her yoga retreat bachelorette party on a small island and Tessa thinks it might be the one she’s searching for. What she doesn’t expect is another guest is there for revenge.

Nina welcomes a condolence card from charismatic Nick, a friend of her late husband who’s looking to make contact. Her daughter Ash is wary of him, though, sensing something is off with this man. Martha’s husband Alistair travels a lot for work, disappearing for days. Martha feel suspicious, despite his explanations. Soon, Nina, Martha and Ash’s stories converge and they’re all going to wish they didn’t let him in.

Three women, in locations ranging from Boston to London to Santo Domingo de la Calzada, over the course of five centuries, all hunger for something better. They all make the same dangerous choice that will alter their lives — and affect their afterlives. One could say this haunting fantasy novel has a bite to it.

A nighttime walk on the beach by a father and his young daughter sparks a mystery when the father suddenly disappears. Jumping around to different points of view and timelines, one family’s catastrophe ripples across their stories.

Monica throws herself into coding a computer program that connects strangers online. The college freshman misses her elderly grandparents and wants to reunite her grandmother Yun with her long-lost cousin from Shanghai. Monica serendipitously connects with a woman and learns of a lost family history including war, espionage and the special power the women in her family have: to Reforge a pencil’s words. Through the generations, bigger questions, like who owns their stories, are explored.

It’s only a murder mystery simulation — what could go wrong? In this cozy mystery, Cath inherits her mother’s tickets to a quaint “murder week” in rural England. In solving the fake crime, Cath instead learns her mother’s life was the bigger mystery. A little fling with an artisanal gin maker and some new sleuthing friends brings Cath to crossroads she didn’t expect.

In a small town in Florida, a group of teen moms bond while trying to graduate high school, look towards the future and just survive. The rest of the town is appalled with the Girls, but they live fiercely, truthfully and hopefully in this tenderly told and richly complex novel.

Things are looking up for Jia Song, who has gone from kid of bodega owners to junior partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm. Her new clients are the Park family, owners of a famous Korean beauty brand and currently imploding from divorce, sickness and in-fighting. As she combs through their lies and secrets, can she find the truth to save them in time? Will Jia also question what is really important to her and her measure of success?