Top Summer Books 2025: Romanticism, Fantasy and Mystery -Picks
Summer needs include: SPF, sunglasses and a good book.
US Weekly Is ready for warmer weather (apart from the humidity) and is ready to read some of these new releases while they are at the pool.
Keep scrolling for the best books to read in the summer of 2025:
‘The four engagement rings of Sybill Rain’ by Hannah Brown
A spider -last year’s Mistakes we have never madeThis novel delves into the life of titular Sybil – the life of the party and one of the “Core Four” group of friends – who skipped her dream wedding, just a few days before they walk through the aisle. Now readers discover why! (June 24)
‘Do our part until the summer’ by Meghan Quinn
The fake relationship device is a hit on Tiktok, so there is another one to participate in the ranks. In an all-to-impression of-de-Boss Scotty, Scottie Price is on a wedding retreat with “husband” Wilder Wells. What could go wrong? (3 June)
‘One Golden Summer’ by Carley Fortune
Every summer thereafter Silent character Charlie Florek gets his own chance of love when Alice, who was 17 when she first saw him behind the lens of her camera, returns to Barry’s Bay. Can they forge a real relationship as adults? (Now out)
‘Can’t get enough’ from Kennedy Ryan
The importance of female friendships is the core of this book – but there is still many herbs like independent Hendrix Barry struggles with the possibility of a forbidden romance with Tech -Mogul Maverick Bell. (Now out)
‘Atmosphere’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A love story from the 80s of the author of Daisy Jones & The Six: When scientist Joan Goodwin becomes one of the first women in the NASA space program, her dreams can become a reality. Then a crisis occurs for … (3 June)
‘The Love Haters’ by Katherine Center
In this MADCAP adventure of ROM-Com Queen Center, videographer Katie Vaughn Key West to Profile Coast Guard Rescue Hero “Hutch” Hutcheson touches. But complications (and swimming lessons) threaten her make-or-break assignment. (May 20)
Thanks to Berkley; Thanks to Ballantine Books for those who started the 2025 by setting their goodreads goal for the year, US Weekly has a treat for you. This year there are tons of books that are being published – both in the fiction and the memoir genres – only a few stand out among the […]
‘Shield of Sparros’ by Devney Perry
Perry’s first trip to romantasia is a slow-burn, high-stakes romance-where Tiktok is already following the trope of the enemies-to-enthusiasts. Not to mention the fact that a film adjustment is already being made. (Now out)
‘Before Dorothy’ by Hazel Gaynor
Still thinking Bad? Prequel van Gaynor offers a new view of the world of OZ, which shifts the focus to Aunt Em and Uncle Henry before Dorothy is fell in front of them. Their journey brings them from Chicago to Kansas. (17 June)
‘Bury Our Bones In The Midnight Soil’ by Ve Schwab
Sappian vampires are here to stay – at least, says Schwab, who highlights a toxic trio of them over five centuries. Their intertwined stories about hunger, love and anger Hopscotch by 1532 Spain, 1827 London and 2019 Boston. (June 10)
‘I will look so hot in a coffin’ by Carla Sosenko
Expect a roller coaster of emotions from these honest, humorous memoirs. Born with the rare Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, which results in legs of different sizes, Sosenko describes its hard-fought trip to body acceptance. (Now out)
‘The Missing Half’ by Ashley Flowers
Two women disappear, two weeks apart – leaving cars, wallets left inside. In the second novel of the podcast host ‘Crime Junkie’ their sisters couples seven years later to breathe new life into this colder than done. *Plot twists included. (Now out)
‘You hear here’ by Megan Miranda
Nobody writes a thriller like Miranda (All missing girls). In the last last, after her daughter for her Alma Mater, Beckett Bowery returns to Wyatt College, the home of a double murder, a disappearance – and all her secrets. (July 29)
Small fires everywhere, Big Little Lies and you are one of the best-selling books that have found their way to the small screen in the form of TV adjustments. Reese Witherspoon is central to many of the most successful TV programs based on books, thanks to her passion for bringing new stories to a new one […]
‘We might just be able to make it’ by Elyce Arons
Author Arons reflects on her decades of friendship with deceased designer Kate Spade. The book starts at their first meeting at the university to tell the story how they created the iconic fashion brand. (17 June)
‘Murder on Sex Island’ by Jo Firestone
A humorous whodunit: Gender island Is TV’s hottest reality dating show, but when fan Fave David G. disappears, producers Pi Luella van Horn hire (actually a dividing capacity that leads a double life). Going undercover as a participant is the only option! (June 24)
‘Stuck Up & Stupid’ by Angourie Rice and Kate Rice
Actress Angourie (2024s Mean girls) and her playwright Mother, Kate, worked together on this YA title. The plot is a bit Proud and prejudice: Ordinary Aussie Girl Lily Clashes then clicks with hot A-Lister Dorian Khan. (Now out)
