2022 Summer Book Preview

40 new novels for your summer TBR, with new releases from Sloane Crosley, Candice Carty-Williams, Andrew Sean Greer, and more

Angela Lashbrook
15 min readMay 9, 2022
Woman Reading, Boris Grigoriev, 1922

How much reading time do you have this summer? If you’re taking a vacation — and I hope you are, because, Jesus, the past two years! — you’re going to want to leave space in your suitcase or on your Kindle because the next few months are stacked with devastatingly delicious releases. I spent the past couple months collecting titles, reading as much as my poor little brain can handle, and finalizing the below list for your perusal.

For June, you’ll want to pick up Katie Gutierrez’s nuanced, suspenseful crime novel, More Than You’ll Ever Know, about a woman who secretly has two husbands, one in Mexico, the other in Texas; or consider Sloane Crosley’s actual LOL of a novel Cult Classic, a book about dating that had me laughing in a perhaps unflattering manner while eating solo at the new pizza spot down the street — and where two people in the span of ten minutes demanded to know how the book was. For July, there’s Gabrielle Zevin’s hotly anticipated (Knopf bought it for seven figures; Paramount bought the film rights for $2 mil) Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, about the decades-long friendship between two video game developers, while in August, jump on the Bookstagram…

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Angela Lashbrook
Angela Lashbrook

Written by Angela Lashbrook

I’m a columnist for OneZero, where I write about the intersection of health & tech. Also seen at Elemental, The Atlantic, VICE, and Vox. Brooklyn, NY.

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