As the summer heats up, the world invites us to slow down. It’s the perfect time to enjoy a new book on the porch, on the patio or in the air conditioning if things get too hot. Discover our top new releases books for June 2026, including poetry for bite-sized reading, smart and sassy essays, and tell-all memoirs written by some of today’s most creative voices.   I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side by J Brooke J Brooke’s I Can Tell You the Version That Will Make You Take My Side begins in a rich and specific New York City childhood full of binaries, then catapults into a fully realized, self-aware adulthood where the speaker experiences parenting, a breast cancer scare and the complicated questioning of top-surgery. Without Terminus: Untraining an Archive by Chaun Webster A dazzlingly inventive account of kinship and dispossession by a two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author In his first work of nonfiction, poet chaun webster blends memoir, archival research, visual poetics and cultural criticism to trace the ways structural anti-Black violence has shaped his inheritance. He grapples with the question of how to know and mourn the kin he