The Cliffs, by J. Courtney Sullivan
A dilapidated lavender mansion, perched high on a craggy bluff in Maine, turns out to be more than a home: It’s the key to a century of hopes, misdeeds and family ghosts.
Knopf, July 2
Moore’s fifth novel takes place at an Adirondack summer camp where the daughter of the owner goes missing. Strangely — and alarmingly — she isn’t the first person in her family to disappear from this secluded idyll. Who is responsible?
Riverhead, July 2
This story of four women’s coming-of-age spans six years in China in the 1980s and ‘90s, offering a portrait both sweeping and intimate — as much a study of a radically changing society as of four very different people.
Viking, July 2
The Coin, by Yasmin Zaher
Zaher’s debut novel is about a spiraling teacher, obsessed with cleanliness, who finds herself pulled into a moneymaking scheme reselling Birkin bags as she tries to figure out her life.
Catapult, July 9
Among the copper mines of 1890s Montana, a drug-addled, troublemaking Irish poet and crooner falls for the mail-order bride of another man. Barry’s novel follows the two lovers as they run West, with gunslingers on their tail.
Doubleday, July 9
When the Fletcher family patriarch is snatched from his driveway in the suburbs of New York in the 1980s, the effects of his kidnapping echo through the lives of his three children — even into their adulthood. Fans of Brodesser-Akner’s debut, “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” know to brace for impact; there will be high-wire set pieces, secrets and neuroses galore. (Brodesser-Akner is a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine.)
Random House, July 9
Brown, a “hacktivist” member of the collective Anonymous, spent four years in prison for leaking intelligence documents. But that’s just the beginning of this strange and rambling odyssey — one that recounts Brown’s escapades, addictions and escapes, but also serves as a searing indictment of our institutions.
MCD, July 9
The latest in Harkness’s All Souls series, this novel picks up with Diana, a witch and scholar, and her vampire husband, Matthew, who are working to protect their young twins. Along the way, Diana delves deeper into her family history and reckons with her own power and desires.
Ballantine, July 16
Grossman, known for his best-selling Magicians trilogy, now turns to the myth of King Arthur. This novel follows a knight who helps lead a ragtag band to rebuild Excalibur in the wake of the king’s death.
Viking, July 16
Jones’s latest is a playful, self-aware and remarkably gory horror novel about a teenager in Texas who is forced to become a serial killer after a tragic accident and subsequent massacre in his small town.
S & S/Saga Press, July 16
Written in 90 short segments, this memoir by a journeywoman soccer player highlights her unfailing devotion to her sport, which takes her to club teams around the world. She pulls together a life of playing, coaching and chasing lucky breaks, and persists despite low pay and punishing odds.
Riverhead, July 16
Autocrats across the globe today share more than just a marketplace of terrible ideas. They are thriving, as the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian argues in this dispiriting survey of tyranny’s global infrastructure, because such leaders also enjoy a literal marketplace, full of high-tech Chinese security cameras and Russian bot farm services.
Doubleday, July 23
A nonfiction noir that combines propulsive true crime with stylish writing, Brottman’s account of a murder, a love triangle and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Fla., makes for an unputdownable read. There’s sex, death and money, yes — but also a smart, sensitive examination of a group of people and what happens when lies take over a life.
Atria/One Signal, July 23
Liars, by Sarah Manguso
This eviscerating new novel falls somewhere between “Marriage Story” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Manguso offers a feverish recounting of two New York artists (the wife is a successful writer, while the husband is still finding his medium) as their once-happy union corrodes.
Hogarth, July 23
One six-week period in 1982 saw the U.S. release of several influential movies — “E.T.,” “Mad Max: The Road Warrior,” “Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan,” “Blade Runner,” “Tron,” “Conan the Barbarian,” “Poltergeist” and “The Thing.” Nashawaty traces their influence, and argues that this one season altered the course of Hollywood for years to come.
Flatiron, July 30
In Mengestu’s new novel, a journalist named Mamush returns to his immigrant family in Washington, D.C., to learn that his father was found dead in his garage. Mamush searches for answers, a quest that takes him to Chicago and unearths a murky family history.
Knopf, July 30
