This email is a helpful list of all the new science fiction, fantasy, and other genre books coming out in June 2025. We hope you find your next favorite!
It's a big fantasy book summer, and June arrives with plenty of offerings. The Mercy Makers by Tessa Gratton, The Last Vigilant by Mark A. Latham, and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab each have exactly 560 pages–perfect for weighing down a beach tote bag.
How do you like your science fiction? Big, spacefaring stories of aliens, exploration, and emergency landings like Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky? Or tense, intimate observations of the strange and technical on Earth like Just Emilia by Jennifer Oko? We've got 'em all.
When Devils Sing is a Southern Gothic horror following four teenagers dedicated to solving the case in rural Georgia–even if something old and rotten is at the core. Sound up your alley? We're sharing an excerpt here!
SCIENCE FANTASY
Meet Me at the Crossroads
MEGAN GIDDINGS
A door to a new world stands in front of you. Do you open it? Do you walk through?
Meet Me at the Crossroads is a new novel about two sisters who face these questions and make different decisions. Reactor reviewer Molly Templeton enjoyed Megan Giddings' previous novel The Women Could Fly, so we already have high expectations!
Summerween is right around the corner! June brings a lot of YA horror that is perfect for scratching that summer camp fix, including A Girl Walks Into the Forest by Madeleine Roux, Bad Creek by Peyton June, and You've Awoken Her by Ann Dávila Cardinal. But scaredy-cats need not fear… There's still plenty of romance and whimsy this month, with options like Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman, Goodbye, My Princess by Fei Wo Si Cun, and Lady's Knight by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.
But genre fiction is a bigger circle than just fantasy and sci-fi! This Pride Month, we're also paying particular attention to queer horror, romantasy, and other speculative fiction picks. You might like There Are Reasons For This by Nini Berndt, It's Not the End of the World by Jonathan Parks-Ramage, or A Legionnaire's Guide to Love and Peace by Emiky Skrutskie!
It's time for FUN!! It's time for CAMP!!! This book has been described as "Monster Mash in space," and with a premise like that, you're either in or you're out. And we're all in.
FANTASY
A Song of Legends Lost
M. H. AYINDE
Invokers call down ancestral spirits to wield magic against threats to the Nine Realms. A Song of Legends Lost is big, explosive, and absolutely bonkers, but never loses its thread among the vast number of characters and secret plots. Christina Orlando said it best: "SFF reader to SFF reader, you know you're in for an adventure when you crack open a new book and it's got both a map AND a dramatis personae."
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