New Book Releases: June 1, 2021

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

THE OTHER BLACK GIRL, Zakiya Dalila Harris. A young, Black book publishing employee is thrilled when her employer hires another Black woman, but soon discovers that there’s something sinister about her. One of the biggest, most anticipated books of the year. The New York Times writes that “you will turn page after page after page in your eagerness to unravel this unique tale.” Bookshop.

THE WEDDING NIGHT, Harriet Walker. After a destination wedding is cancelled, a group of friends attempt to take the former bride-to-be’s mind off her disappointment with a vacation at a chateau. But when they wake up the day after they arrive, they have no memory of the previous evening, and no idea why a wedding appears to have taken place anyway. Bookshop.

BEWILDERNESS, Karen Tucker. A heartbreaking, gorgeous novel about two best friends coping with opioid addiction in rural North Carolina. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly writes that “Tucker astonishes in her…