My most anticipated books coming out in the second half of 2021! As if I didn’t have enough books I want to read I’m already looking forward to so many more books coming out in the second half of the year. I did a similar post last year but those books came out on the first half of 2021. I’m including 3 books per month that I am excited about for the second half of the year. There are no books in December because that is usually a very slow month for book publishing and I didn’t find any I was super excited about.
July
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
July 6, 2021 | Riverhead Books | Literary Fiction
Synopsis – A story of summer, secrets, love, and lies: in the course of a singular day on Cape Cod, one woman must make a life-changing decision that has been brewing for decades.
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While we were dating by Jasmine Guillory
July 13, 2021 | Berkley Books | Romance
Synopsis – Two people realize that it’s no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.
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The Second Season by Emily Adrian
July 27, 2021 | Blackstone Publishing | Contemporary Fiction
Synopsis – Ruth Devon starred for Georgetown Basketball back in college—until she injured her knee, married her coach, and found a new career calling games on the radio. Twenty years later, Ruth and her now-ex-husband, Lester, are two of the most famous faces in sports media. When Lester decides to retire from the announcers’ booth, Ruth goes after his job. If she gets it, she will be the first woman to call NBA games on national television.
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August
The Husbands by Chandler Baker
August 3rd, 2021 | Flatiron Books | Thriller
Synopsis – Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network, is back with The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband?
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The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
August 3rd, 2021 | Gallery Books | Contemporary Fiction
Synopsis – The People We Keep is about a young songwriter longing to find a home in the world. This lyrical, unflinching tale is for anyone who has ever yearned for the fierce power of found family or to grasp the profound beauty of choosing to belong.
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A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
August 31st 2021 | Riverhead Books | Thriller
Synopsis – When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim’s home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. When it comes to revenge, even good people might be capable of terrible deeds. How far might any one of them go to find peace? How long can secrets smolder before they explode into flame?
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September
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
September 14, 2021 | Doubleday | Historical Fiction
Synopsis – Harlem Shuffle’s ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It’s a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately
a love letter to Harlem.
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Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
September 14th 2021 | Henry Holt and Co. | Thriller
Synopsis – The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . . If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
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Eight Perfect Hours by Lia Louis
September 28, 2021 | Atria Books | Romance/Holiday
Synopsis – Thirty-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or a working charger for her phone. All seems lost until Sam Attwood, a handsome American stranger also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. What follows is eight perfect hours together, until morning arrives and the roads finally clear. The two strangers part, positive they’ll never see each other again but fate, it seems, has a different plan. As the two keep serendipitously bumping into one another, they begin to realize that perhaps there truly is no such thing as coincidence.
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October
We Are Not like them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza
October 5, 2021 | Atria Books | Contemporary Fiction
Synopsis – Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event—a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives.
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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
October 12, 2021 | Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers | Young Adult
Synopsis – In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, two boys in a border town fell in love. Now, they must discover what it means to stay in love and build a relationship in a world that seems to challenge their very existence.
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November
Heard it in a Love Song by Tracey Garvis Graves
November 2, 2021 | St. Martin’s Press | Contemporary Fiction
Synopsis – Layla Hilding is thirty-five and recently divorced. Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.
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Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lili King
November 9, 2021 | Grove Press | Short Stories
Synopsis – Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller’s unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl’s loss of innocence at the hands of her employer’s son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter’s hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King’s enduring subject of love.
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These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Pachett
November 23, 2021 | Harper | Non-fiction/Essays
Synopsis – “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart.
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I’m so excited to read all these books. I hope this post helps you find some books to add to your TBR.
So many books coming out this year! The Husbands sounds super intriguing!
I’m so excited to read that one!