With June right around the corner, I’ve been looking ahead at upcoming releases and trying to guess what might show up in next month’s Aardvark lineup. They tend to strike a balance between buzzy new titles and returning authors, usually with a slightly darker or more offbeat edge, so this list leans into that mix….
June 2026 Most Anticipated
June is here and honestly; my TBR is out of control in the best way. This month has such a good mix of everything: thrillers, romance, literary fiction, fantasy, and a few that I genuinely cannot categorize but need immediately. Summer reading season is officially in full swing, and I have twelve books on my…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
After her husband’s death, Tova Sullivan takes up the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and keeping busy the way she always has, especially in the thirty-plus years since her eighteen-year-old son Erik vanished on a boat in Puget Sound. But when she forms an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a curmudgeonly giant…
17 Books to Gift Every Type of Mom This Mother’s Day
Because she doesn’t need another candle. She needs uninterrupted reading time and a really good book. Mother’s Day is this Sunday and if you’re still searching for the right gift, I’m going to make this very easy for you: books. Always books. Literally always books. & if you’re my husband reading this, I’d like a…
The Daisy Chain Flower Shop
Daisy’s flower shop has been branded cursed after the weddings she’s done flowers for keep ending in divorce, and Dream Harbor newcomer Elliot wants nothing to do with more bad luck. But when he reluctantly walks through her door, these two guarded hearts might just find that love shows up when you least expect it….
Buyer Beware
From the internationally bestselling author of 56 Days, Buyer Beware is a thriller about two women whose fractured lives collide around a house with dangerous secrets. When Ellie moves to 1 Delaney Row hoping for a fresh start, she quickly discovers her new home is already hiding someone else’s buried past and the people protecting…
What Boys Learn
When two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb over one terrible weekend, school counselor Abby Rosso begins to suspect that her own son Benjamin was secretly involved in their lives and possibly their deaths. Abby doesn’t want to believe her son could hurt anyone, but she’s seen the warning signs before:…
The Best Little Motel in Texas
Cordelia West has spent years building a quiet, respectable life in Dallas and putting as much distance as possible between herself and her chaotic hometown of Sarsaparilla Falls. Then she gets a phone call: a great-aunt she never knew existed has died and left her the Chickadee Motel. The catch? It can’t be sold until…
Helpless
Jessica Knoll’s latest follows Faye Heron and Henry Spalding, former college lovers who haven’t seen each other in twelve years. Faye is now half of a Hollywood power couple. Henry is a married father running the family business. When a beloved college professor dies and brings them both back to campus for the funeral, old…
How to Write a Love Story
Catherine Walsh’s newest book follows Sam, an ambitious editor and total fanboy, who’s sent from his New York publishing house straight to the Irish coast to help Ciara Sheridan finish her late father’s final fantasy novel. Ciara’s legendary author dad left her with a sprawling, crumbling estate, an outline for the series finale his fans…