Weekly Bestsellers, 22 June 2026

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Barrow, Rebecca: Doe (Penguin Random House/Nancy Paulsen 979-8217006335, $20.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Horror novel in verse. Being captain of the cheer team helps Maris forget about her absent father, and girlfriend that doesn’t love her. While sleepwalking, Maris meets an enormous decaying beast named Doe, who takes the form of a deer, but she doesn’t realize Doe is actually real.

Blackwell, Amelia: The Haunting of a Bronte (Macmillan UK 978-1035054145, $25.46, 424pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/25/2026)

Speculative novel. Georgiana uses her time travel device to visit her lover in 1995, but she ends up inside the Thorp Green Hall in the year 1845, where she meets Branwell and Anne Brontë. Georgiana must save the Brontë siblings from a killer.

Carey, M.R.: The Tinder Box (Orbit US 978-0316595490, $19.99, 400pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Dark fantasy novel. Former Solider Mag Tresti works for a widow, Jannae Mirchella, who’s a witch. One day, Mag Tresti discovers a tinderbox on the body of a demon that fell out of the sky, and this Tinderbox grants Mag any wish he desires. Simultaneous with the Orbit UK edition.

Dedroog, Lauren: A Dance of Serpents (Orion UK/Gollancz 978-1399616157, $18.99, 528pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/25/2026)

Fantasy novel. Diana is the princess of hell, but she won’t forget the way that the gods wronged her, her family, and her friends. Diana, along with her allies, search for justice, but the line between justice and revenge is unclear, and she has to keep herself from becoming the very thing she hates.

Doctorow, Cory: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence, Before It’s Too Late (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, Giroux/MCD 978-0374621568, $18.00, 240pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Associational non-fiction about artificial intelligence. This book discusses why AI is valued at above $16 trillion dollars, a number so large that the only way for it to reach that value is by replacing huge amounts of the human workforce, despite it’s underwhelming performance.

Elison, Meg: Foundling Fathers (Tachyon Publications 978-1616964580, $16.95, 192pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Satirical SF novella. A group of right wing billionaires doesn’t like how the country is being run so they clone the founding fathers, and raise them in secrecy, in order to bring back America’s “Former Glory.”

Evans, Malayna: The Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones (The Quick Brown Fox/Alcove 979-8892424189, $29.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Historical fantasy novel of ancient Egypt. The goddess of thrones and magic, Isis, along with her husband, Osiris, are living a great life until the god of chaos comes in and traps Osiris in a box. Osiris does everything in her power to find him.

Everett, Sarah: The Romance Rewind (Penguin Random House/Putnam 979-8217002986, $12.99, 304pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Young-adult fantasy time-loop romance novel. After Zadie’s breakup with Jason, she doesn’t know what to do, and is left wondering about the breakup. All of a sudden, she’s launched back to the day of their first date, and no one else remembers besides Jason’s cousin Marcus.

Haynes, Clarence A.: The Broken Hearts Agency (Grand Central/Legacy Lit 978-1538783603, $20.99, 398pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Urban fantasy novel in the Our Mystical World series. Evelyn Kendricks just got dumped by her toxic boyfriend, all the while, she’s trying to cope with the ghosts that invaded the world.

Katouh, Zoulfa: The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue (Little, Brown 978-0316351942, $25.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Young-adult fantasy/magical realism novel. Every woman in Jihad Dabbagh’s family receives a magical gift, and Jihad’s is a heightened sense for colors that changes based on her mood, so when her mother dies the world becomes permanently gray.

Kim, Suji: Under the Oak Tree, Volume 3 (Penguin Random House/Inklore 978-0593871256, $32.00, 528pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Tie-in fantasy novel, third in the series based on the webnovel. Maxi fears that as she continues her studies of magic, her husband, Riftan Calypse, will discover that she’s not the proper noblewoman she claims to be.

Kiser, S.E.: Hunt the Ever Wild (Angry Robot UK 978-1836730071, $19.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Fantasy novel. The wizard Sy jumps at the chance to go on a hunt for a phoenix in Lichtenwald forest because the prize is enough for him to pay off the debt he owes to the king, but he needs help navigating the forest, so he teams up with Anya, a huntress, and claims that he’ll split the prize. A first novel.

Riesen, Lila: Rainsong (Penguin Random House/Knopf 978-0593810286, $19.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

Horror novel. Zayn just moved to Mendocino, and the town seems to have a dark past; when she arrives there are missing posters of a girl everywhere, and off the coast is an island called Rainsong, which rumors say is haunted.

Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Green City Wars (Tor 978-1250290335, $28.99, 368pp, formats: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook, 06/23/2026)

SF noir novel. A raccoon private investigator named Skotch is willing to take whatever job you pay him for, as long as it isn’t too illegal. When he’s offered a job to search for a missing mouse that seems to have something everyone wants, he has trouble turning it down. Simultaneous with the Tor UK edition.

Tremblay, Rachel: Lavender Spike (ECW Press 978-1770418417, $19.95, 384pp, formats: paperback, ebook, 06/23/2026)

Dystopian SF novel. Izzy, the last working artist in the Old Holy Order, lives a live of poverty covertly selling her illegal paintings to the last followers of the Order, but a run-in with the government forces her to turn to rebels, and a new kind of art.

Voleur, Cat: Queer Tastes: Unconventional Representation in Horror Film (From Beyond 979-8-9925941-4-0, $15.99, 170pp, formats: paperback, 06/23/2026)

Associational non-fiction. This book takes a critical look at queer representation in horror films, and guides readers through 20 different horror films that span over 80 years of cinema. The author includes her personal experiences with the LGBTQ+ community as she takes you through these films.

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