TRENDING NEWS ENTERTAINME NT FOOD & DRINK PETS SHOPPING HEAL THY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MORE e 24 Best New Book Releases is Week: May 21-27, 2024 From Stephen King to Nora Roberts (and even picture books!), we've got them all.</p><p> MICHAEL GILTZ • MAY 24, 2024 Summer is coming! (That’s a lot more fun than “winter is coming,” believe me.) Memorial Day weekend approaches, so make sure you check out Parade's picks for the best summer beach reads of 2024.</p><p> And here are my picks for the new books this week worth checking out—at the library, on your phone or from your favorite indie bookstore! Every roundup , I gather great books you’re going to love, plus great books that your family and friends will love hearing about, books perfect for gifting and more.</p><p> Each batch below features books linked in some way: one batch gathers big, name-brand authors, another batch focuses on mysteries/thrillers, yet another batch recommends romances and so on.</p><p> So scroll down to discover great picks for you and everyone in your life.</p><p> Let’s get reading ! At the head of the Parade is…. e 24 Best New Book Releases is Week: May 21-27, 2024 1.</p><p> You Like It Darker by Stephen King 2.</p><p> Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates 3.</p><p> Tom Clancy: Act of De ance by Andrews & Wilson Three big names everyone knows.</p><p> Stephen King is an acclaimed, best- selling novelist.</p><p> But I believe his best work comes in short stories.</p><p> Check out King's latest collection, You Like It Darker. (And then check out his masterpiece, the four novellas that comprise Di erent Seasons.) It’s going to take generatio ns for us to catch up to the Balzacian output of Joyce Carol Oates.</p><p> But why delay the pleasure? Her latest is a deeply researched novel about a woman’s asylum in the 1800s run by the scarily titled–and real– gure Dr.</p><p> Silas Weir, the Father of Gyno-Psychiatry.</p><p> Stephen King would be down for this one.</p><p> And the late Tom Clancy was king of the techno-thriller, novels that made you feel ready to y jets, dismantle nuclear weapons and the goings-on at secret government installations .</p><p> The writing team of Andrews & Wilson carry on the tradition with a novel that harkens back to Clancy’s iconic Hunt For Red October.</p><p> President Jack Ryan feels haunted by old ghosts when a rogue Russian nuclear submarine is headed straight for the East Coast of the United States.</p><p> You Like It Darker by Stephen King ($30; Scribner) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates ($30; Knopf) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Tom Clancy: Act of De ance by Andrews & Wilson ($32; G.P.</p><p> Putnam’s Sons) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 4.</p><p> House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker If you’re a fan of popular histories, books written for a general audience that bring alive events of the past with wit, drama and accuracy, then House of Lilies is for you.</p><p> An acclaimed best-seller in Europe, it details the 340 year reign of the Capetians from the 900s to the 1300s, the dynasty that made France what it is today, along with adopting the eur-de-lys, spurring on the crusades, inventing the ideals of chivalry, ruthlessly expanding its power and shaping France and indeed Europe as we know it today.</p><p> If you’re like me and you haven’t even really heard of the Capetians, this will delightfully tell the story we’ve been missing.</p><p> House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker ($35; Basic Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Th e 30 Best Serial Killer Titles of All Time 5.</p><p> A G amble at Sunset by Vanessa Riley 6.</p><p> Mind Games by Nora Roberts 7.</p><p> Savor It by Tarah DeWi Three novels of romance for every taste.</p><p> Best-seller Vanessa Riley launc hes a new Regency series titled Betting Against The Duke.</p><p> The kicko title A Gamble at Sunset includes fake dating, music and the tantalizing promise that losing to the Duke might be just as good as winning .</p><p> The unstoppable Nora Roberts delivers romance, thrills and a touch of the supernatural in Mind Games when a woman nds herself psychically linked to the killer that took her parents when she was only 12.</p><p> And Tarah DeWitt’s Savor It o ers a woman in Oregon who fake dates a hot and brilliant big city chef in town for the summer.</p><p> Why? Then she can win an annual food competition so locals will forget she was dumped by her boyfriend and he can repair his reputation.</p><p> But what if neither of them wants the summer to end? A Gamble at Sunset by Vanes sa Riley ($17.95; Zebra) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Mind Games by Nora Roberts ($30; St.</p><p> Martin’s Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Savor It by Tarah DeWitt ($18; St.</p><p> Martin’s Gri n) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 8.</p><p> I Hope is Finds You Well by Natalie Sue Natalie Sue’s novel is one of the most buzzed-about books of the year, a delic ious skewering of workplace culture for fans of the lm O ce Space and the tv series The O ce and perhaps anything with the word “o ce” in it.</p><p> But it is not a how-to manual .</p><p> Its main character Jolene maintains her sanity by writing polite responses to idiotic emails…and including wicked rejoinders at the bottom but setting the text color to white so no one else actually sees them.</p><p> Genius! Until, of course, someone does.</p><p> Jolene must endure s ensitivity training from HR.</p><p> Then she accidentally gets access to everyone’s private emails and Direct Messages…and says nothing, especially when she realizes layo s are looming and desperately uses the info she gleans to protect her job.</p><p> Again, not a good idea.</p><p> Tempting, yes.</p><p> Don’t wait for the movie.</p><p> I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue ($28; William Morrow) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 9.</p><p> Once Upon a Time: e Captivating Life of Carolyn Besse e- Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller 10.</p><p> In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger 11.</p><p> What A Fool Believes by Michael McDonald with Paul Reiser Three biographies and memoirs that range widely.</p><p> Carolyn Bessette- Kennedy is remembered mostly as the wife of John F.</p><p> Kennedy Jr., both of whom died in a tragic plane crash that also killed her sister Lauren.</p><p> Author Elizabeth Beller strives to give Carolyn and her fashion career before becoming a Kennedy and thus tabloid fodder its due.</p><p> Sebastian Junger also has untimely death on his mind.</p><p> He’s an acclaimed war reporter, co- director of the Oscar-nominated lm Restrepo ( lmed in Afghanistan) and author of the life or death non ction work The Perfect Storm.</p><p> And yet, it wasn’t until a near-death experience (including a vision of his late father beckoning to him) that Junger tackled the big questions about the preciousness and precariousness of life and what happens when we die.</p><p> In My Time of Dying is the searching, powerful result.</p><p> And singer songwriter Michael McDonald is a Grammy winning member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.</p><p> He’s performed with the Doobie Brothers, co-written numerous hits with Kenny Loggins, done studio work for Steely Dan and tells all in his charming memoir.</p><p> But surely the most intriguing aspect is that he wrote it with his friend actor Paul Reiser.</p><p> Perhaps you open up to a friend even more than you might on your own.</p><p> Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller ($29.99; Gallery Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org In My Time of Dying by Sebas tian Junger ($27.99; Simon & Schuster) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org What A Fool Believes by Michael McDonald with Paul Reiser ($32; Dey Street Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 12. e Perilous Performance at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos; illustrated by Doug Salati Sometimes a novel comes out and the whole reading world sits up and takes notice.</p><p> That didn’t quite happen for last year’s The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow.</p><p> It enjoy ed marvelous reviews but didn’t snag the audien ce it deserved.</p><p> Maybe people will catch on, with the rst book hitting paperback in October and this sequel The Perilous Performance at Milkweed Meadow.</p><p> It can be enjoy ed on its own, but continues the adventures of Butternut the rabbit.</p><p> She was brave enough to befriend other creatures like a robin and deer despite being warned against it.</p><p> Now will she be brave enough to take part in a show put on by a troupe of traveling turkeys? Author Elaine Dimopolous delivers, abetted nicely by the illustrations of Doug Salati.</p><p> The Perilous Performance at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos; illustrated by Doug Salati ($17.99; Charlesbridge) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 13.</p><p> One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware 14.</p><p> Swiped by L.M.</p><p> Chilton 15.</p><p> When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips Ready for some thrills? Ruth Ware–author of the blockbuster The Woman in Cabin 10–a couple competing in a Survivor-like competition soon nds the stakes are deadlier than expected.</p><p> Think Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.</p><p> In Swiped, a woman using a dating app discovers someone is stalking her…and killing every guy she dates.</p><p> Naturally, the police suspect her so she must gure out which guy she once dated continues to carry a ame for her and is willing to murder anyone standing in their way.</p><p> And why does anyone attend an exclusive, privileged private school? Haven’t they read enough mysteries to know the dang ers? In When We Were Silent, a student risks her safety to unmask a predatory teacher only to see her plan end disastrously.</p><p> Decades later, she’s called to testify against the school and knows she nally must confront what really happened and why.</p><p> One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware ($29.99; Gallery/Scout Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Swiped by L.M.</p><p> Chilton ($27.99; Gallery/Scout Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips ($28.99; Flatiron Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 16. e Bump by Sidney Karger 17.</p><p> Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan 18. e Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley Road trip! With humor.</p><p> You won’t nd a wedding in The Bump, but happily married gay couple Wayne and Biz face the natural next step: a baby! They are thrilled their child-via-surrogate is due shortly.</p><p> But also scared.</p><p> And doubting themselves.</p><p> And their relationship.</p><p> The solution? A road trip from NYC to LA where the baby will be born.</p><p> Expect humor and heart from Sidney Karger, the writer of the charming romance Best Man.</p><p> In the latest from Kevin Kwan of Crazy Rich Asians, a bank rupt–but handsome– future Earl of Greshambury must go to a wedding attended by the super rich and snag a woman of means before his fancy life implodes for good.</p><p> Problem s ensue, like a secret liaison that comes to light, a volcanic eruption and worst of all, falling in love with the relatively penniless girl next door.</p><p> In The Guncle Abroad, Steven Rowley continues the story of gay uncle Patrick O’Hara and his bond with the niece and nephew he looked after for a summer when their mother died.</p><p> Now they’re o to Italy where the teens are none to happy their dad is getting remarried and Patrick is none to happy he faces a rival with their cool, soon-to-be launt (lesbian aunt) .</p><p> The Bump by Sidney Karger ($18; Berkley) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Lies and Weddi ngs by Kevin Kwan ($29; Doubleday) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley ($32; G.P.</p><p> Putnam’s Sons) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Princess Diana, Detective? New Novel Finds Diana Impersonator Solving Crime 19. e Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton 20. e Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom 21.</p><p> How To Become e Dark Lord & Die Trying by Django Wexler Three left- eld novels with sci- and fantasy elements.</p><p> The Last Murder at the End of the World combines a delic ious murder plot with an unexpected setting: an island of survivors after the world is wiped out by a mysterious fog.</p><p> When one of the handful of people left is brutally murdered, it’s both shocking and dangerous since the island’s defenses against the fog must be rebuilt in less than ve days or they’ll all die.</p><p> Not many writers of out-there dystopian ction are compared to Harry Crews and Cormac McCarthy.</p><p> But that’s the deal for Kent Wascom, whose latest continues his near-future tale of a Florida overrun by right-wing preachers, gun-toting rebels, professional gamers and–just to remind you this isn’t the present, but the future–some robotic warriors.</p><p> A cult in the making.</p><p> And Django Wexler knows how to hit the sweet spot of humor in the often too-serious world of fantasy.</p><p> He combines the fatalistic time- loop of Edge of Tomorrow with the knowing comedy of Redshirts by John Scalzi in How To Become The Dark Lord & Die Trying, the story of a woman bored by endlessly trying to defeat the Dark Lord only to be foiled by a time loop.</p><p> So, what the hell, she decides to become the next Dark Lord instead.</p><p> The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton ($27.99; Sourcebook s/Landmark) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom ($16.99; Grove Press/Black Cat) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org How To Become The Dark Lord & Die Trying by Django Wexler ($19.99; Orbit) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 22.</p><p> Big Bear and Li le Bear Go Fishing by Amy Hest; illustrated by Erin E.</p><p> Stead 23. e Squish by Breanna Carzoo 24.</p><p> Charles and Ray: Designers at Play by James Yang Three picture books that delight (and no, you don’t really need to have a kid around to read one).</p><p> Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing already feels like a classic.</p><p> Its gentle rhythms and perfect pairing of text and illustrations (each of which stand easily on their own) is pitch perfect.</p><p> The Squish is a winning tale of a happy-go-lucky sand castle who is squished by bored children…and decides enough is enough.</p><p> Finally, I generally avoid picture books that seem educational and more like work than play.</p><p> Charles and Ray had that vibe.</p><p> Do kids really want a picture book about the designers and artist couple Charles and Ray Eames? They do when the result shows the husband and wife team in such colorful, Eames-like settings that you’re already falling hard for their designs before you even know what they do.</p><p> Plus, a picture book focusing on a happily married couple who collaborate and are ful lled by work is very, very rare.</p><p> It’s subtitled Designers at Play and ful lls that promise with charm.</p><p> Sure, I learned something, but I didn’t mind a bit.</p><p> Big Bear and Little Bear Go Fishing by Amy Hest; illustrated by Erin E.</p><p> Stead ($18.99; Neal Porter Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Squish by Breanna Carzoo ($19.99; HarperCollins) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Charles and Ray: Designers at Play by James Yang ($18.99; Viking Books for Young Readers) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e 60+ Best Summer Beach Reads of 2024 Read MoreContent continues below Courtesy of Scribner, Knopf, G.P.</p><p> Putnam’s Sons Content continues below Courtesy of Basic Books Content continues below Courtesy of Zebra, St.</p><p> Martin’s Press, St.</p><p> Martin’s Gri n Content continues below Courtesy of William Morrow Content continues below Courtesy of Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster, Dey Street Books Content continues below Courtesy of Charlesbridge Content continues below Courtesy of Gallery/Scout Press, Flatiron Books Content continues below Courtesy of G.P.</p><p> Putnam’s Sons, Doubleday, Berkley Content continues below Courtesy of Sourcebooks/Landmark, Grove Press/Black Cat, Orbit Content continues below Courtesy of Neal Porter Books,HarperCollins, Viking Books for Young Readers Sponsored Stories Here Are 23 + Hottest Gifts Of 20 24 23 Insanely Cool Gadgets You'll Regret Not Getting Before They Sell Out Trending Gadgets | SponsoredDermatologist Sa ys Do Not Buy Regular Bedsheets, Here's Why After testing dozens of bedsheets, these are #1. thegrannyblog.com | Sponsored Top Doctors : І f You Have Nail Fungus, Do This Immediately Fight Your Nail Fungus Easily by Doing This Wellness Wisdom Hub | SponsoredNew arrivals Unbeatable Prices on Quality Products temu.com | Sponsored Thi s Wine Advent Calendar Is the Perfect Early Holiday Present — and It’s Under $80Thi s Coin Helps Keep Your Drinking Water Clean Pluto - Indica Hybrid - 24 .98% THCa - Free Sh ipping HelloMood | SponsoredMac Users Didn't Know Th is Simple Trick To Block All Ads (Do It Now) Safe Tech Tips | Sponsored BOOK PICKS e 16 Best New Book e 16 Best New Book Releases is Week: Nov. 26- Releases is Week: Nov. 26- Dec. 2, 2024 Dec. 2, 2024BOOK PICKS e 24 Best New Book e 24 Best New Book Releases is Week: Nov. 19- Releases is Week: Nov. 19- 25, 2024 25, 2024BOOK PICKS How To Read John Grisham’s How To Read John Grisham’s 56 Book s in Order 56 Book s in Order BOOK PICKS e 25 Best New Book e 25 Best New Book Releases is Week: Nov. 12- Releases is Week: Nov. 12- 18, 2024 18, 2024BOOK PICKS Good reads And Parade Pick Good reads And Parade Pick 26 Book s For Native 26 Book s For Native American Month American MonthBOOK PICKS e 22 Best New Book e 22 Best New Book Releases is Week: Nov. 5-11, Releases is Week: Nov. 5-11, 20242024 © 2024 THE ARENA MEDIA BRANDS, LLC PARADE IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF ATHLON SPORTS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.</p><p> SITE MAPABOUT PARADECONTACT USTERMS OF USEPRIVACY POLICY'Survivor 47' Forms a New Underdog Alliance for the Endgame Read More CLOSE✕
