Hello, book friends, and a special hello to my new paid subscribers! Today I’m sharing the books that will be published in June that I’m most excited about. Paid subscribers have exclusive access to this monthly series, alongside my full archive, book club guides, author deep dives, monthly wrap-ups, and more.

To find the next month’s most exciting books for you, I scour the world (aka the depths of the Internet, publisher and bookseller catalogues, other blogs and newsletters, and nosy around the publishing world). For June 2025, we have a medley of fiction and non-fiction, ranging from healing fiction set on a Japanese train line and family sagas steeped in sisterhood and mother-daughter complexities, to research books on the impact of words on our brains, and how our marvellous brains work. There is also a book set in Harvard, which is particularly timely.