PW’s Best Summer Reads 2026

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Publishers Weekly picked the Summer 2026 books that should be on your radar:

Staff Picks

RASPUTIN SWIMS THE POTOMAC by Ben Fountain

SPAWNING SEASON: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood by Joseph Osmudson

THE YAHOO BOYS: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers by Carlos Barragán

Fiction

COYOTELAND by Vanessa Hua

Mystery/Thriller

INDIE DARLING by Lauren Nossett

KILLER VIBES: The First Peter Key Mystery by Jack Friday

Romance

BURNOUT SUMMER by Jenna Ramirez

SF/Fantasy/Horror

DEAD WEIGHT by Hildur Knútsdóttir, Mary Robinette Kowal (Translated by)

SUBLIMATION by Isabel J. Kim

Nonfiction

INSPIRATION PORN: Essays by Ryan O’Connell

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