If your idea of “ beach read ” includes subjects like aliens , place battles , fantasy fight , clock time - travel , monsters , demons , vampires , magical circus performers , and fresh takes onclassic mythology … this list of 42 new sci - fi , fantasy , and repugnance expiration for June has get you covered .
“ in the lead Tolkien student Peter Grybauskas , represent for the very first time J.R.R. Tolkien ’s own prose version of The Battle of Maldon together with the classic treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays . ” ( June 6 )
When a misfit eminent schooler is pulled into the byways—“a world of alleys , magic , and forgotten people . . . some that are n’t even human”—she must figure out how to escape , as well as why she ended up there in the first post . ( June 6 )
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A charwoman starts using her newfound ability to “ rewind ” her living to cook preceding mistakes , but things do n’t amend the way she assumes they will . ( June 6 )
This photographic film - history book feature interviews with Roger Corman ( who also wrote the foreword ) as well as critical analysis of each of the eight Poe adaptations he made with American International Pictures , plus “ dozens of photographs and stills , many of which have never been published before . ” ( June 6 )
In a world being consume by a “ depression pestilence , ” a young scientist struggles to keep her sense of hope and pleasure alive , enter on a journey across time and space to find the author of happiness . ( June 6 )
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“ The behind - the - scene story of the action heroes who rule eighties and ’ 90s Hollywood and the dear films that made them star , include Die Hard , First Blood , The Terminator , and more , ” featuring interviews with the stars and their cinematic collaborator . ( June 6 )
When the daughter of a Library god fit two masses in heroic pauperization of help , she ’s uniquely balance to reach the Library ’s many mystical secrets — which lead her to scandalous find that could remold the future for all ask . ( June 6 )
By daytime , she ’s a subject - park princess ; by night , she ’s a Sunset Strip barfly . But things take a turn for the gruesome when she match her best friend ’s sidekick and start up modeling her life after American Psycho . ( June 6 )
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Amid a fearsome pandemic , a disgraced marine biologist volunteers for an experimental vaccine trial that could be humankind ’s last Bob Hope . ( June 6 )
When the parents in a British Chinese family of time traveller fail to return from a journey , the Kid they left behind must envision out their own stead in the yesteryear , present , and future . ( June 6 )
After a untested female parent is murdered by a serial slayer , a politics task resurrects her — but her joy at getting a 2d chance is tempered with her growing fascination with uncovering what come about in her life in the lead - up to her death . ( June 6 )
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In 1909 Boston , a department - store salesgirl disguise herself as a boy so that she can teach to become a detective , then team up up with an occult - obsessed wannabe necromancer to excavate into a supernatural mystery chivy the urban center . interpret an excerpthere . ( June 6 )
The Stealing Infinity series continues as the metre - journey student of Gray Wolf Academy teaser through a mystery that extend across chronicle . ( June 6 )
“ The mystery of a missing interpreter localise three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple essence across the stars . ” Read an excerpthere . ( June 6 )
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When a high - shoal scholar encounters a holograph take to be a human from the hereafter , carrying a warning that the world ’s about to end , she must make up one’s mind whether she trusts it enough to pace through a vena portae it claims offers base hit on the other side . ( June 6 )
This first Koran in a new sci - phantasy trilogy postulate position “ In a globe where fight - hardened warrior regulate the fate of empires , war - ravaged nations seek out a new champion . ” ( June 13 )
The latest entry in the long - go Hollows serial publication brings in an vicious new adversary for witch - yield demon Rachel Morgan as she tries to protect Cincinnati ’s paranormal population . ( June 13 )
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The Five Crowns of Okrith illusion serial proceed , keep up the adventures of a “ neurodivergent scholastic ” reluctantly facing an arranged marriage with a fae warrior — all while dealing with a witchy revolt that threatens the normal of their mother , the kingdom ’s troubled poof . ( June 13 )
In post - world-wide War I America , a time - travel ringmaster runs a circus for “ magical misfit and castaway ” with her trapeze - artist wife — but the good haven they ’ve created before long arrive under threat from a rival circus ruled by a far more threatening loss leader . ( June 13 )
In this cock-and-bull story set in 18th C Venice , two adolescent female child conform to at an elite music school and spring a mystifying friendly relationship that takes a oddly magical bend . ( June 13 )
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This women’s liberationist retelling of Arthurian villainess Morgan le Fay explore the world of “ a woman both mortal and magical , formidable and misunderstood , told in her own words . ” ( June 13 )
When aliens reach down on Earth for a brief visit , dissimilar characters across America make do with the weirdness : a meek dada who does whatever his wife and TV - addict Thomas Kyd want , a lonely woman trapped in her own not - ideal family unit place , and a coma victim who of a sudden awakens and dress out on a road trip of self - discovery . ( June 13 )
In this fresh retelling of the Hellenic myth , a rebellious woman spend her life story training for a fated battle — until she meets the god of desire , who flow for her after by chance pricking himself with one of his own arrow , and must team up up with him as the Trojan War resurrect around them . ( June 13 )
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“ realness and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle manufacturing business is thrust into an ancient mystery — one with explosive import for the fate of humanity . ” ( June 13 )
The Savage Rebellion trilogy concludes with the final warfare for Crache , play off those in power ( and their vicious military ) against its army of malcontent citizen . Can the women who control each side amount to an understanding before all is lost ? ( June 13 )
The Gem Universe series continues as a determined scientist journeys to the of late rediscover Palace of Gems , enwrapped on tracking down her enquiry - stealing mentor while also digging into the truth about the Jeweled Valley . ( June 20 )
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The Starlight ’s Shadow trilogy concludes as “ an intergalactic thief must get together forces with the magical teleporter who stole her last Book of Job — and may now be her only promise for saving her former crew . ” ( June 20 )
In this sci - fi debut , “ a gestural autistic adult female refuse to crumble as she stand against a dogmatical society clinging to a centuries - foresightful difference of opinion built on Trygve Halvden Lie . ” ( June 20 )
A teenaged boy who has spent his life traveling with his Fatherhood , hunting down people marked by the daemon , must reevaluate his entire cosmos when he befriend their latest target , a young car - wreck survivor . ( June 20 )
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A nightwatchman who ’s long suffered night terror band together with friends and alien when a unusual phenomenon takes over the world : everyone who fall asleep dies . ( June 20 )
When a woman ’s long - missing best friend suddenly reappear — along with the fabricated hero of their favorite physician Who - ish sci - fi tv set series — she ’s pulled into a untamed sentence - locomotion adventure with an malign alien entity in hot pursuit . ( June 20 )
In this fantasy enigma , “ cursebreaker Marlow Briggs reluctantly guess to be in sexual love with a powerful nobleman to gain entry into an famous — and deadly — society that holds clue to her mother ’s disappearance . ” ( June 20 )
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This tale that ’s already beenearmarked for the goggle box series treatmentfollows a young woman who ’s acquire up protect her female parent ’s monstrous mystery — but ascertain new hope for the hereafter when she meets a rebellious instrumentalist . ( June 20 )
The Her Majesty ’s Royal Coven serial continues as the witchy friend radical endeavour to keep their coven together — all while face a humans that ’s wary of their powers but may require their aid to save it . ( June 20 )
The Downworld Sequence sci - fi series begin by exploring a worldly concern “ where AI deities and barbarous police states clash , manage elephantine robots steered by airplane pilot - priests with corrupted bodies . ” ( June 27 )
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This portmanteau word of “ Jason Bourne and epic fantasy ” follows a whiz who waken in a unusual fourth dimension and situation with no memory of who he is — and drop his copy of the one rule book that could maybe help him ( see : this book ’s title ) . ( June 27 )
Once a twelvemonth , a man wakes up to find that everyone in his life has forgotten him — something he endures until he fall in love , and sets out on a quest to free himself from the “ Reset ” that ’s ruled his entire existence . ( June 27 )
“ NeoG — the Near - Earth Orbital Guard , a divers military military group that patrols and protect the solar system , inspired by the material - biography delegation of the Coast Guard — and the work party of Zuma ’s specter are under flak , and scandalous truths are about to be exposed . ” ( June 27 )
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An expert wood guide helps a fair sex look for for a miss child — but they both dish different gods , a fact which will cloud certain loyalty along the path . ( June 27 )
In this launching novel , “ estranged half - sister tasked with guarding their family ’s program library of sorcerous books must forge together to ravel a mortal closed book at the gist of their aggregation — a fib of transmissible loyalty and treason , and the pursuit of magic and power . ” ( June 27 )
A woman chew the fat Roswell , New Mexico for her friend ’s UFO - themed wedding is abducted by a interrogatively sympathetic alien — and that ’s just the start of the dangerous undertaking in this road - trip read-only memory - com sci - fi tale . ( June 27 )
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