The best new books out this week 📚
 Hello, book lovers! Each week, dozens of new releases hit the shelves. Here are our favorites. ❤️📚 –The BuzzFeed Books team
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 Credit: Other Press, Knopf Publishing Group Wayward by Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta's latest novel opens on a familiar scene: A middle-aged woman wakes up one morning, scrolls through real estate listings, and decides to check out a particularly appealing open house. She falls in love with the beautiful, rundown home and impulsively buys it, leaving her husband and daughter behind. Her life changes completely, but she's liberated by her ability to upend it. This is a story about female desire and fulfillment, a woman realizing she's fallen into roles she resents ("bored housewife," "stay-at-home mom" — the latter, she notes, makes it sound like she's under house arrest) and giving in to the impulse to abandon them. Spiotta glides through her journey with sparkling prose, delving into the contradictions and complexities of being an aging woman — and raising a daughter who will one day do the same — in today's America. —Arianna Rebolini
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Late Summer by Luiz Ruffato, translated by Julia Sanches
Highly acclaimed Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato's latest is a brooding, poetic portrait of a man undone by grief. After 20 years away, Oséias returns to his hometown with low expectations — recently divorced and unemployed, this is mostly an act of desperation. He rediscovers the city and people he used to know so well, confronting his former self and reconnecting with similarly disillusioned siblings, and childhood friends who've taken unexpected paths. All the while he's haunted by the guilt he carries from his sister's suicide and his own failures. It's a mournful story, written in a dreamy rush of consciousness and dialogue uninterrupted by paragraph breaks, but Ruffato's emotional clarity allows a layered ambivalence. Oséias's fate is tragic but also illuminating, and, perhaps, invigorating: Underneath, for the reader, is the push to live better. —Arianna Rebolini
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 Credit: St. Martin's Griffin Too Good to Be Real by Melonie Johnson
When her job is on the line, aspiring travel writer Julia pitches her boss a story about a nearby rom-com resort — a place where romantic comedy fans can come live out their meet-cute fantasies for a weekend. When she arrives, with two friends in tow, she (literally) runs into Luke, a lanky and handsome guest who she has an immediate and strong connection with. Only...Luke isn't just a regular guest; he's in charge of the weekend's festivities and he also has no idea that Julia is there to review the resort. As the two start spending time together under false pretenses — and with both their jobs at risk — Julia doesn't know if her feelings for Luke are real or just part of the fantasy. —Shyla Watson
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 Credit: Spiegel & Grau Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship by Catherine Raven
When Catherine Raven left her abusive family at 15 years old, she quickly found solace in nature, first working as a park ranger, then getting her PhD in biology, and eventually building a small cottage in the remote woods of Montana where she settled into a mostly solitary life, with breaks to lead field classes and lectures. Then, one day, a fox showed up, and kept coming back. In this quiet, charming memoir, Raven recounts her journey to accepting this unusual companion, loath as she is to anthropomorphize him. And as she embraces the vulnerability of loving an animal she objectively knows can't love her back, she warms up to the idea of letting other people in, too. Throughout, Raven writes about her environment with wonder and reverence but never formality — it's the easy affection of someone who's long made family of the natural world. —Arianna Rebolini
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 Credit: Sourcebooks Fire, Little Brown/Patterson What We Devour by Linsey Miller
Miller always delivers on queer fantasy, and her newest once again gives us quality ace rep in Lorena, an incredibly powerful girl who keeps her abilities a secret and plans to live a typical quiet life married to her best friend, Julian. Then the crown prince comes to arrest Julian's father, and immediately sniffs out Lorena's secret, forcing her to serve him in exchange for granting her planned future father-in-law a fair trial. But the service he requires is far more dangerous than Lorena anticipated, and the secrets she learns as they attempt to keep their world safe chill her to the bone and force her to embrace the complicated duality of the power she never intended to use. —Dahlia Adler
Get it from Bookshop, Target, or a local indie via Indiebound here. It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts
Alka's entire life has been building up to getting revenge for the murder of her parents and the kidnapping that brought her to be raised among Wizard rebels. And now that she's found a way to get into the prestigious Blackwater Academy, the first step is complete. At Blackwater, viciousness and power run deep, but Alka knows she can run with the best of them, even if she wasn't born with the same silver spoon in her mouth. (And her prickly attitude certainly doesn't stop our heroine from finding romance...twice.) Whether she can achieve her goals without scorching the earth beneath her feet and turning into someone she doesn't even recognize is another story. Pick this one up for magic school, Sapphic romance, vengeful adventure, and a fearless bisexual heroine. —Dahlia Adler
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 Credit: Scholastic Press Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
The author of You Should See Me in a Crown — a Reese Witherspoon book club pick — returns with a new YA contemporary this summer. Toni and Olivia, each broken in their own way, are brought into each other's life at Farmland Music and Arts Festival. But when something at the festival goes awry, the two learn just how much they'll need each other. —Farrah Penn
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 Credit: William Morrow, Thomas Nelson, St. Martin's Press Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy
A perfect beach read about the life of a naive Midwesterner-turned-Playboy-Bunny. Wisconsin seems like an unlikely place for a Bunny Ranch, and Sherri an even unlikelier bunny. Orphaned at 19, Sherri sheds her church clothes for the nearby ranch, enticed by the promise of glamour. There, she quickly learns the ropes and just as quickly falls into a love triangle — one that ends in a tragedy that will haunt her for decades. —Kirby Beaton
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In 1917 Petrograd, Princess Svetlana flees the violence of the Bolshevik Revolution for the safety of Paris, where she and her family are forced into hiding. There, she meets Wynn, an innovative surgeon who's immediately smitten with Svetlana and offers to marry her and pay off her debts, hoping love will come later. Svetlana, out of options, agrees. But the Bolsheviks are still on her trail, and soon the couple is on the run with only their blossoming love to keep them going. —Kirby Beaton
Based on a true story, Riley — known for her historical romance — creates an interesting narration of the life of Dorothy "Doll" Kirwan Thomas. The story follows Doll from her birth into slavery in the Caribbean to buying her freedom from her Irish planter father to her love affairs with notable men (including a naval captain who will become King of England). Doll's life is full of hardship, but also epic adventures that led her to become a powerful woman who left a distinct mark on the world. —Kirby Beaton Get it from Bookshop, Target, or through your local indie through Indiebound here.
The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
Inspired by true stories, this harrowing novel follows Yona, a young woman kidnapped from wealthy German parents and raised in the harsh forests of Eastern Europe. When her captor dies in 1941, Yona, unaware of what's going on in the world, stumbles upon a group of Jews fleeing Nazi rule. Shocked, she helps them learn to survive — and hide — in the wilderness. But after betrayal sends her fleeing into a German-occupied town, her past and present will collide. —Kirby Beaton
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