A Peek at Peak Picks – June 2025

Check out the eleven new books we’re adding to Peak Picks in June!

In fiction, from Taylor Jenkins Reid (Daisy Jones & the Six) comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits in Atmosphere; from Leila Mottley, the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick Nightcrawling, comes an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle in The Girls Who Grew Big; Rob Franklin debuts with a gripping, elegant novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest in Great Black Hope; with sparkling wit and insight, Rachel Joyce (The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry) returns with a powerful novel which reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart in The Homemade God; Dylin Hardcastle’s delivers a breathtaking, sliding-doors, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the darkest corners in A Language of Limbs; and from Jess Walter (Beautiful Ruins)—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren in So Far Gone.

In nonfiction, Megan Greenwell pens a timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry, told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous effects of private equity takeovers in Bad Company; From Melissa Febos (Girlhood) comes an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist heroes she discovered during a year of celibacy and a wise and transformative look at relationships and self-knowledge in The Dry Season; Kate Marvel takes us on a captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet in Human Nature; Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei’s new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all—told in full for the first time anywhere! — in It Rhymes With Takei; And set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Sara Kehaulani Goo tells the story of her effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands—and find herself along the way— in Kuleana.