For Your Consideration: July 2023 LibraryReads Titles

Download, read, and vote for your favorite July titles for the July 2023 LibraryReads list!

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THE BLOCK PARTY by Jamie Day
9781250283191 | 7/18/23
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“Murder shakes the wealthy denizens of Meadowbrook, Mass., from their suburban stupor in Day’s appealing debut… Day’s choice to withhold both victim and perpetrator ratchets up the tension nicely, and her jabs at suburban repression are sharp. This is wicked fun.”–Publishers Weekly

CAMP DAMASCUS by Chuck Tingle
9781250874627 | 7/18/23
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From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle comes a horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.

CUTTING TEETH by Chandler Baker
9781250839787 | 7/18/23
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“Baker’s plot is complex and gripping, featuring a brutal murder and an eye-opening look at suburban motherhood and the competition among the moms to be ‘the best,’ someone who would do anything for her kids… Dark secrets, retribution, and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her child all feature in this twisted, disturbing story that will keep readers off balance from beginning to end.”–Booklist

THE DEEP SKY by Yume Kitasei
9781250875334 | 7/18/23
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“Kitasei sets her action-packed near-future debut against the backdrop of impending human extinction… [A] remarkable story of endurance and hope.”–Publishers Weekly

EBONY GATE by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle
9781250837431 | 7/11/23
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A female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco’s Chinatown.

THE GUEST ROOM by Tasha Sylva
9781250863959 | 7/11/23
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“Grief complicates everything for the protagonist of this psychological thriller… A slow burn of a psychological thriller wrapped up in mysterious ambiguity.”–Kirkus Reviews

KING OF THE ARMADILLOS by Wendy Chin-Tanner
9781250843005 | 7/25/23
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“Chin-Tanner draws on family history for her debut, KING OF THE ARMADILLOS, in which 15-year-old New Yorker Victor Chin is sent to quarantine in 1950s Louisiana owing to Hansen’s disease, otherwise known as leprosy.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

THE LADY FROM BURMA by Allison Montclair
9781250854193 | 7/25/23
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“Proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau, Miss Iris Sparks (with unspoken past in British intelligence) and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge (a war widow with a child) have a new sort of client: a woman who wants to find the perfect wife for her eccentric academic husband because she herself is dying of cancer. Then she’s found dead in Epping Forest—apparently a suicide, but Iris and Gwendolyn aren’t so sure.”–Library Journal Pre-Pub Alert

MRS. PLANSKY’S REVENGE by Spencer Quinn
9781250843333 | 7/25/23
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“Edgar winner Quinn (a pseudonym for Peter Abrams, author of the Chet and Bernie mysteries) launches a new series with this sprightly adventure featuring 71-year-old Loretta Plansky, a rich Florida widow… Mrs. Plansky is a wonderfully memorable heroine, full of wit and equally plausible as an ace tennis player and a motorcycle-driving detective with Romanian gangsters hot on her tail. Readers will be eager to see what Mrs. Plansky gets up to next.”–Publishers Weekly

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by Vajra Chandrasekera
9781250847386 | 7/11/23
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THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant.

THE SEA ELEPHANTS by Shastri Akella
9781250867056 | 7/11/23
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For fans of SHUGGIE BAIN and A BURNING, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who flees his father’s threats to send him to a conversion center by joining a street theater troupe.

THE SUMMER GIRL by Elle Kennedy
9781250863874 | 7/18/23
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Elle Kennedy’s next spicy and emotional romance in the blockbuster Avalon Bay series.

WOLFSONG by TJ Klune
9781250890313 | 7/4/23
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“Bestseller Klune (IN THE LIVES OF PUPPETS) opens his Green Creek series with this slow-burning and intricate urban fantasy…. Klune gets ahead of any Twilight comparisons by making the connection explicit in the text, and the immersive…plot offers plenty of opportunities to fall in love with these characters. Fans will be delighted.”–Publishers Weekly