New Book Releases: July 20, 2021

Each week, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that Tuesday.

VIRTUE, Hermione Hoby. A young intern at a NYC magazine becomes infatuated with a glamorous couple, but when tragedy strikes, he learns the consequences of his obsession with them. “A delicious meditation on morality, nostalgia, and art,” writes Booklist. Aggregated critical reviews, Bookshop.

THE LIABILITY OF LOVE, Susan Schoenberger. When her rapist grows up to be a famous movie star, a woman is left to grapple with the aftermath of the incident on her life and relationships. In a starred review, Kirkus calls it “a keenly observed, compassionate, and absorbing work.” Bookshop.

YOU AND ME AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Brianna Bourne. A teenager awakes to discover everyone in the world has disappeared — everyone, that is, except the hottest boy in school. Bookshop.

THE WOMAN FROM URUGUAY, Pedro Mairal, Jennifer Croft (translator). A lonely, overworked novelist spends a transformative single day with a Uruguayan woman he met at a…