TRENDING NEWSENTERTAINMENTFOOD & DRINKPETSSHOPPINGHEALTHY NOW HOME BEST READS ON PARADE BOOK PICKS SEE MORE e 20 Best New Book Releases is Week: May 28-June 3, 2024 From John Grisham to Sunny Hostin (and lovable monsters!), we’ve got them all.</p><p> MICHAEL GILTZ • MAY 28, 2024 Here are the best new books of the week! You’ll nd everything from thrillers by authors you trust like John Grisham to bestsellers from France, quirky memoirs, the history of reality TV, a gorgeous tribute to the mind of director Tim Burton, travel books about crossing the Grand Canyon on foot, right down to picture books that will bring back your childhood and brighten someone else’s when you buy it for them. (And don't forget to check out our picks of The 60 Best Summer Beach Reads!) How do I do it? Imagine you’re in a bookstore.</p><p> If you’re like me, you can spend ages wandering the aisles, jumping on a new book by a favorite author, making note of a title you think a coworker would love and so.</p><p> That’s what I do: pore over the hundreds and hundreds of new releases coming out every week, pull out the ones with early buzz, the ones by authors with a great track record, read what I can, and yes, let my eye be caught by a great cover.</p><p> And voila! Some great new books to check out.</p><p> So let’s get reading.</p><p> At the head of the Parade is…. e 20 Best New Book Releases is Week: May 28-June 3, 2024 1.</p><p> Camino Ghosts by John Grisham 2.</p><p> If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay 3.</p><p> Southern Man by Greg Iles Three acclaimed thrillers.</p><p> John Grisham is back with his third novel set on Camino Island.</p><p> This time bookseller Bruce Cable and writer Mercer Mann are caught up in a plot by developers to seize control of an (almost) abandoned is land o the coast near Florida and Georgia.</p><p> The only problem ? The island’s last resident, Lovely Jackson, and the power of a cursed history.</p><p> In Alex Finlay’s latest, the lives of a man wrongly accused, a sheri ’s deputy working her rst case and a mobster haunted by tragedy intercross in a nail-biter of abduction, redemption and starting over.</p><p> Finally , Greg Iles brings back Penn Cage, because how could he not? Following on from the acclaimed Natchez Burning trilogy, this time Penn tackles a white supremacist named Robert E.</p><p> Lee White, a Ross Perot with a fascist bent and backing from a billionaire running for President.</p><p> Toss in a mass shooting at a rap concert and antebellum plantations going up in ames and you've got an old fashioned race war on the way.</p><p> Chaos! Until Penn teams up with his daughter and a one-time Black Panther in a race against time to reveal the conspiracy behind it all.</p><p> Camino Ghosts by John Grisham ($29.95; Doubleday) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay ($28; Minotaur Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Southern Man by Greg Iles ($36; William Morrow) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 4. e World of Tim B urton by Tim Burton, et al Are you excited by the movie Beetlejuic e Beetlejuice opening this fall? (Please don’t say his name a third time!) Then this co ee table book is for you.</p><p> It’s a celebration of the art and mind and imaginings of director Tim Burton, presenting everything from childhood sketches to storyboards and puppets created for his movies ranging from Edward Scissorhands to Batman to The Nightmare Before Christmas (directed by Henry Selick).</p><p> Paintings, photographs, maquettes (small models made as a guide to creating much larger ones) and more capture his imaginative process in a presentation that’s serious and fun.</p><p> The World of Tim Burton by Tim Burton ($35; Silvana Editoriale) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: 15 Books You Must Read If You’re Obsessed With Taylor Swift’s New Album 5.</p><p> Summe r on Highland Beach by Sunny Hostin 6. e Paris A air by Maureen Marshall 7.</p><p> Summe r Fridays by Suzanne Rindell Sunny Hostin of The View deliv ers her latest novel combining a keen sense of history with the emotional lives of strong women nding themselves.</p><p> Summer on the Blu s shared the vibrant Black community of Oaks Blu on Martha’s Vineyard.</p><p> In Summer on Sag Harbor, Olivia from that rst book forged happiness in the Hamptons.</p><p> Now in Summer on Highland Beach, Hostin highlights and celebrates the historic Black beac h resort in Chesapeake Bay.</p><p> But should Olivia claim her legacy and a life of her own or accept the good life she made back in the Hamptons? Author Maureen Marshall goes back in time to the 1880s for an historical romance tinged with greed.</p><p> Gay engineer Fin Tighe loves working for Gustave Ei el on the man’s dream of a 300 foot tall tower.</p><p> And he loves the relative freedom of nightlife in Paris.</p><p> But trying to raise money for the project (and thus gain nancial freedom for himself and his cousin) means trusting the handsome stranger who is wooing him, posing as the heir he is not and maybe seeing it all crash to the ground.</p><p> Finally , Summer Fridays heads back to the New York City of 1999 for its dash of romance.</p><p> Sawyer is unhappy when her ancé spends more and more time at work with his colleague Kendra.</p><p> When Kendra’s boyfriend Nick reaches out to Kendra, they compare notes about what seems like an a air, butt heads…and become friends.</p><p> Suddenly, Fridays become their afternoon for exploring the city, enjoying themselves and guring out who they are and what they really want.</p><p> Summer on Highland Beach by Sunny Hostin ($30; William Morrow) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Paris A air by Maureen Marshall ($19.99; Grand Central Publishing) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Summer Fridays by Suzanne Rind ell ($18; Dutton) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 8.</p><p> Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi In this non ction work of true crime by Frank Figliuzzi, a gruesome pattern emerges.</p><p> The FBI realizes that one thread connecting hundreds of unsolved murders might just be the occupation of the killers: long-haul truckers.</p><p> Imagine, victims are picked up in one state and often the crimes occur in another and the bodies are dumped in a third, making the case all the more di cult to crack.</p><p> Long-haul truck driver proves the perfect job for loners with a taste for the unthinkable.</p><p> The FBI formed the Highway Serial Killings Initiative and tracked some 850 murders–and counting– that t this m.o.</p><p> Former FBI assistant director Figliuzzi charts the history of the unit and some of the worst o enders in a book acclaimed author Don Winslow calls “a true-crime masterpiece.” Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi ($25.99; Mariner Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 9.</p><p> A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi 10.</p><p> My Favorite ing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris 11.</p><p> Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg Sibling s, family, roommates–relationships ain’t easy.</p><p> In A Good Life, the complicated relationship between two French sisters gets its due.</p><p> Agathe (messy, chaotic) and Emma (responsible, mature) generally stay out of each other’s lives.</p><p> But the death of their grandmother brings the two back together to settle the estate.</p><p> Writer Virginie Grimaldi–a bestseller in France–brings to life their entire story.</p><p> Author Emil Ferris enjoyed one of the sensations of 2017 with his graphic novel (okay, comic book) about a little girl growing up in Chicago in the late 1960s, a kid with a tumultuous home-life and an obsession with horror movies and pop culture.</p><p> Book Two is certain to make My Favorite Thing Is Monsters one of those rare graphic novels that everyone reads , not just fans of the art form.</p><p> And Emma Copley Eisenberg has a critically acclaimed winner with Housemates, the story of two Philly roommates who turn a small journey into a roadtrip to document America through their words and photographs.</p><p> A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi; translated by Hildegarde Serle ($28; Europa Editions) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris ($44.99; Fantagraphics) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg ($29; Hogarth) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 12.</p><p> A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedarko 13.</p><p> And e n? And e n? What Else? by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket 14. e Way of the Hermit by Ken Smith with Will Millard Writer Kevn Fedarko joined National Geographic photographer Pete McBride on a plan to walk across the 750 miles of the Grand Canyon.</p><p> What could go wrong? Everything, in this hilarious memoir documenting their foolish, funny adventure.</p><p> The inimitable Daniel Handler is the Boswell, the right-hand man for...okay the creator of Lemony Snicket, beloved kid’s author.</p><p> Naturally, Handler would never write a straightforward autobiography, o ering instead a memoir/confession/guide to writing/appreciation for the art that inspired him.</p><p> It's a work as quirky and heartfelt as one would expect.</p><p> And the hermit Ken Smith shares his very di erent life: how a violent attack led him to leave England, explore the world, nd solace–and survival skills–in the Yukon and ultimately return to the UK and nd a life of simplicity in the Scottish Highlands, living o the land.</p><p> A Walk in the Park by Kevin Fedar ko ($32.50; Scribner) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org And Then? And Then? What Else? by Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket ($26.99; Liveright) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Way of the Hermit by Ken Smith with Will Millard ($20.99; Hanover Square Press) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org 15.</p><p> Allow Me To Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli 16.</p><p> Cue e Sun! e Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum 17. e Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr The line between acting and real life is forever blurred in our modern world, with its reality tv and social media.</p><p> Though, honestly, humans were always acting, always presenting a version of themselves to the people around them.</p><p> That fact is captured in three very di erent books.</p><p> In the novel Allow Me To Introduce Myself, Anuri Chinasa spent 25 years as the “star” of her stepmom’s social media empire.</p><p> She can’t even walk down the street without being recognized, which makes forging her own life very di cult.</p><p> And now that she’s broken free, Anuri sees the cycle starting again when her ve year old half-sister is being groomed for the same Truman Show-like existence.</p><p> Not on her watch.</p><p> Pulitzer Prize winner Emily Nussbaum charts the history of reality TV, which began long before the Real Housewives or even The Real World, thanks to pioneers like the Loud family on PBS.</p><p> From Candid Camera to The Dating Game right up to Survivor and today, Nussbaum captures it all.</p><p> And in the historical ction of Lisa Barr, we discover a legendary movie star who hid her desperate years of survival as a Jew in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.</p><p> She was acting when she was posing as an Aryan, acting with her desperate comrades, acting when she made it to Hollywood, acting in public and acting even to herself.</p><p> Where does the performance end and the real woman begin? The star can’t even imagine what it would mean to tell her own story.</p><p> But here it is.</p><p> Allow Me To Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli ($28.99; Graydon House) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Cue The Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum ($30; Random House) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org The Goddes s of Warsaw by Lisa Barr ($30; Harper) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Related: Princess Diana, Detective? New Novel Finds Diana Impersonator Solving Crime 18.</p><p> Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias; art by Gracey Zhang 19.</p><p> Lighthouse and the Li le Boat by Katie Frawley; illustrated by Ben Mantle 20. is Table by Alex Killian; illustrated by Brooke Smart Three picture books worth reading and sharing.</p><p> In Emergency Quarters, a kid who is proud of being old enough to walk the six blocks to school on his own, is given an “emergency quarter” to call his mom.</p><p> The temptation to spend the pile of quarters, which he adds to every day, is awfully tempting.</p><p> In the delightfully retro Lighthouse and the Little Boat, a small boat new to the harbor is guided and advised by the lighthouse. “Stay close to me,” says the Lighthouse, though inevitably the little boat becomes bolder and edges farther and farther away.</p><p> Ah, parenting.</p><p> Finally , This Table artfully captures the passage of time by showing a seed that becomes a tree that becomes a table and the countless ways it remains at the heart of a family–for meals, for games, for school projects, for life.</p><p> Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias; art by Gracey Zhang ($19.99; Katherine Tegen Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org Lighthouse and the Little Boat by Katie Frawley; illustrated by Ben Mantle ($19.99; Quill Tree Books) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org This Table by Alex Killian; illustrated by Brooke Smart ($18.95; Greystone Kids) Buy now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org e 60+ Best Summer Beach Reads of 2024 Read MoreCourtesy of various publishers Content continues below ADVERTISING Content continues below Courtesy of Doubleday, Minotaur Books, William Morrow Content continues below Content continues below Courtesy of Silvana Editoriale book cover images Content continues below Courtesy of William Morrow, Grand Central Publishing, Dutton Content continues below Courtesy of Mariner Book Content continues below Courtesy of Europa Editions, Fantagraphics, Hogarth Content continues below Courtesy of Scribner, Liveright, Hanover Square Press Content continues below Courtesy of Graydon House, Random House, Harper Content continues below Courtesy of Greystone Kids, Katherine Tegen Books, Quill Tree Books Sponsored Stories Here Are 23+ Hottest Gifts Of 2024 23 Insanely Cool Gadgets You'll Regret Not Getting Before They Sell Out Trending Gadgets | SponsoredFresh Sourdough Starter Where else can you nd FRESH sourdough starter - not dried? 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