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Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress’s revenge.
May 22, 2025Updated 1:00 p.m. ET
JUNE
The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
This thriller, the third in the best-selling partnership between the former president and the prolific novelist, follows a grieving journalist as she chronicles the murder trial of Cole Wright, an N.F.L. star as well as the president’s husband. “When we first got writing,” Patterson recently remarked, “we simply could not have dreamt this one up.”
Little, Brown June 2
Atmosphere: A Love Story
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Reid, the author of “Daisy Jones & The Six,” infuses the stratospheric tension of a 1980s space mission with a cosmic love story in her latest novel. Joan Goodwin, an obsessive astronomy professor and a fresh face on NASA’s space shuttle program, is questioning her own ideas of life and love as she prepares for her flight. Upon liftoff, her problems amplify.
Ballantine, June 3
