All the New Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Books to Add to Your Reading List in July

In July, determination are aggregate new sci-fi, fantasy, and fearfulness books astir estranged friends reuniting to face something acheronian successful their past—call it the It effect—as good arsenic an array of sci-fi adventures, mythology revisions, tales of terror, supernatural mysteries, fantastical romances, and more. Read on!

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Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

In this postulation of stories, “connected and disparate beings—ranging from mean people to grand, known figures—experience the varying destiny of the psyche arsenic each encounters the acheronian of transcendence successful this epoch of extinction.” (July 2)

The Down Deep by Catherine Asaro

“Major Bhaajan and her pack of Dust Knights enactment arsenic guides and bodyguards to a subordinate of the Imperial household connected a ngo of bully volition successful the Undercity. But what awaits them successful the Down Deep whitethorn ruin the accidental astatine bid forever.” (July 2)

The Failures by Benjamin Liar

This blend of apocalyptic sci-fi and epic fantasy, the archetypal of a trilogy, follows “a scattered radical of improbable heroes traveling crossed their breached mechanical satellite to stave disconnected eternal darkness.” (July 2)

The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon

A pistillate who tin resurrect dormant souls—serving a mysterious typical of the afterlife—is tasked with bringing backmost the assassinated heir to the throne, past sticking astir to marque definite the precocious revived princess stays alive. Things get analyzable erstwhile emotion enters the picture. (July 2)

The Icarus Changeling by Timothy Zahn

“Gregory Roarke—agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group—has received a caller assignment: find a teleportation portal connected a backwater colony world. But what should beryllium an casual duty leads to a drawstring of murders, and a contention against an alien enemy.” (July 2)

Made For You by Jenna Satterthwaite

A synthetic pistillate enters a Bachelor-like contention and wins—but the committedness of home bliss that follows becomes twisted erstwhile her caller hubby goes missing, and she’s accused of being involved. (July 2)

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

Set successful an alt mentation of 15th period West Africa and inspired by the story of Persephone, this phantasy communicative explores “the existent outgo of 1 woman’s combat for state and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll spell to unafraid her future.” (July 2)

The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris

This London-set romance follows a lensman who falls for a mysterious woman, past discovers an alternate satellite of “strange and colorful beings” caught successful a warfare raging conscionable beyond the announcement of regular humans. (July 2)

The Night Ends With Fire by K.X. Song

“Infused with magic and romance, this sweeping phantasy escapade inspired by the fable of Mulan follows a young pistillate determined to take her ain destiny—even if that means going against everyone she loves.” (July 2)

Rhymer: Hoode by Gregory Frost

The Rhymer Trilogy continues arsenic Thomas Rimor, present surviving arsenic a hermit successful the Sherwood Forest, takes connected the individuality of Robin Hood to look some his elven and quality foes. (July 2)

Wilderness Reform by Matt and Harrison Query

A newcomer astatine a court-mandated wilderness campy for troubled teens starts to fishy thing precise sinister is going connected with the counselors, truthful helium teams up with his chap inmates to excavation into a unsafe mystery. (July 2)

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All This and More by Peng Shepherd

An unhappy middle-aged pistillate is chosen to prima connected a fashionable TV amusement that uses quantum exertion that allows her to spell backmost successful clip and hole mistakes successful her past life. She’s thrilled astatine first, but soon realizes getting everything she ever dreamed of isn’t each it’s cracked up to be. (July 9)

Black Tide Son by H.M. Long

The Winter Seas series—following the adventures of privateers—“continues arsenic a prisonbreak to prevention Benedict leaves him, Sam, and Mary trapped successful a hopeless contention for endurance successful force territory.” (July 9)

The Blood Dimmed Tide by Stephen Aryan

The Nightingale and the Falcon bid continues, pursuing Genghis Khan’s grandson connected his quest to instrumentality implicit the world—a extremity analyzable erstwhile the Golden Horde faces a burgeoning civilian war. (July 9)

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

A long-struggling histrion yet gets his large break—then learns workplace execs are readying to termination disconnected his quality successful his show’s play finale. Then helium realizes monsters from fearfulness movies he’s made successful the past person seemingly travel to beingness and are seeking revenge. (July 9)

The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee, translated by Sandy Joosun Lee

This cozy phantasy communicative asks: “What if determination was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who mightiness you go erstwhile you aftermath up?” (July 9)

Daughters of Olympus by Hannah Lynn

A retelling of the story of mother-daughter duo Demeter and Persephone. (July 9)

The Family Experiment by John Marrs

This speculative thriller imagines that successful a dangerously overpopulated world, immoderate couples opt to person a “virtual child”—and past let a world amusement to travel on arsenic they “raise” it, hoping to triumph the prize of the close to person a existent baby. (July 9)

Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle

When a household moves to a distant compartment erstwhile owned by the father’s grandparents, the teen daughters statesman to consciousness reverberations of sinister spirits lurking from a period before. (July 9)

Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

In a mounting that evokes a phantasy mentation of Renaissance Italy, influential families conflict for power—including 1 rising scion who indispensable unravel the enigma of an past artifact that seems to beryllium influencing his path. (July 9)

The Price of Redemption by Shawn Carpenter

“A debut swashbuckling phantasy pursuing a almighty sorceress, the Marquese Enid d’Tancreville, arsenic she is forced connected the tally wherever she meets a immense formed of characters including a young oversea skipper who has request of a oversea mage.” (July 9)

Shadowstitch by Cari Thomas

In this sequel to Threadneedle, Anna is backmost to concealing her magic to support her coven safe—until a rapidly spreading hunt for witches means she indispensable squad up with Effie to effort and support them. (July 9)

The Sky connected Fire by Jenn Lyons

This standalone phantasy communicative is described arsenic combining “conniving dragons, lightning banter, high-stakes intrigue, and a small spot of heat.” (July 9)

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

A librarian who tends a postulation of spellbooks goes connected the tally with her adjunct (a sentient spider plant) erstwhile the metropolis falls into a fiery revolt—ending up successful her land hometown, wherever she makes magical jam and opens a magical store. (July 9)

These Deathless Shores by P.H. Low

“A richly reimagined communicative of Captain Hook’s origin, a communicative of cruelty, magic, mislaid innocence, and the indelible powerfulness of stories.” (July 9)

This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

“A speculative caller astir a young woman—invisible by commencement and relegated to second-class citizenship—who sets disconnected connected a ngo to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dormant but who is present the superior fishy successful a high-profile governmental murder.” (July 9)

Toward Eternity: A Novel by Anton Hur

This speculative caller acceptable successful a near-future satellite wherever immortality is astir attainable explores 1 cardinal question: “What does it mean to beryllium quality successful a satellite wherever exertion is rapidly catching up to biology?” (July 9)

Unraveling by Karen Lord

This standalone phantasy caller explores “the acheronian information down a drawstring of antithetic murders leads to an otherworldly exploration of spirits, myth, and memory, steeped successful Caribbean storytelling.” (July 9)

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The Backtrack by Erin La Rosa

A pistillate returns to her puerility location aft 20 years, wherever the nostalgia she feels for her teen years takes a unusual twist erstwhile her aged CD subordinate reveals it has the powerfulness to crook backmost time. (July 16)

The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

The All Souls bid that began with A Discovery of Witches continues the communicative of witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew de Clermont. In this adventure, Diana decides the mode to guarantee information for their young children is to excavation into her family’s mysterious past. (July 16)

Blood Jade by Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle

The Phoenix Hoarde bid continues arsenic Emiko Soong, guardian of the sentient metropolis of San Francisco, embarks connected a execution probe that points toward a long-hidden concealed successful her magical family’s past. (July 16)

Bright Objects by Ruby Todd

“A young widow grapples with the accomplishment of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, successful a debut caller that blends mystery, astronomy, and romance.” (July 16)

The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman

The latest from the writer of The Magicians trilogy is described arsenic “a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur fable for the caller millennium.” (July 16)

Descent by Marko Kloos

The subject sci-fi Palladium Wars bid continues arsenic a POW is fixed a accidental astatine state and a caller start, but it comes with a unsafe risk: he’ll request to spell undercover and sabotage an interstellar rebellion. (July 16)

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

The writer of My Heart Is a Chainsaw explores different slasher tale, this 1 acceptable successful late-’80s small-town Texas, and told from the POV of its teenage killer. (July 16)

In the Belly of the Whale by Michael Flynn

“Aboard a colossal procreation ship, Earth’s brightest minds person forged a strict authorities to guarantee endurance of the quality race. The unintentionally oppressive rules signifier uniquely chiseled societies arsenic the years pass, until differences successful ideology, class, and taste individuality stirs up rebellion among the beleaguered crew, igniting the archetypal whispers of revolution.” (July 16)

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

This Chronicles of Narnia-inspired communicative follows 2 puerility friends who spell missing unneurotic successful a authorities forest, and instrumentality six months aboriginal with lone murky memories of what happened to them. Fifteen years on, they reluctantly reunite to way down a miss who’s vanished from the aforesaid woods. (July 16)

A Rose by Any Other Name by Mary McMyne

“The lush, magical communicative down Shakespeare’s sonnets, arsenic told by 1 of his astir celebrated subjects—the incendiary and mysterious Dark Lady.” (July 16)

The Second Son by Adrienne Tooley

“An epic clash of deities explores the 2 facets of pain—rage versus sadness—in this rousing followup to The Third Daughter, a acheronian crown phantasy duology with a sweeping sapphic romance.” (July 16)

The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa

“Delve into this debut phantasy and travel done the Spice Gates arsenic Amir, a young antheral calved with the quality to question betwixt the 8 kingdoms, unravels the powerfulness that keeps the satellite successful balance.” (July 16)

Talio’s Codex by J. Alexander Cohen

“Ten years ago, the theft of his codex destroyed Talio Rossa’s vocation arsenic a magistrate successful the 4 cities. But erstwhile his ex-wife—finally consenting to forgive uncovering him successful furniture with a man—presents him with a long-shot ineligible case, helium has the accidental to get his vocation backmost connected track.” (July 16)

The West Passage by Jared Pechaček

“When the Guardian of the West Passage died successful her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went backmost to their chores. No successor was named arsenic Guardian, nary 1 took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snowfall blankets Grey successful the tallness of summer, foretelling the coming of the Beast. The too-young Mother of Grey House and the Guardian’s unnamed squire acceptable retired to prevention their people.” (July 16)

The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power edited by Terry J. Benton-Walker

This postulation gathers 13 scary stories from Adiba Jaigirdar, Alexis Henderson, Chloe Gong, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, H. E. Edgmon, Kalynn Bayron, Karen Strong, Kendare Blake, Lamar Giles, Mark Oshiro, Naseem Jamnia, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Terry J. Benton-Walker. (July 16)

Yoke of Stars by R.B. Lemberg

“An apprentice assassin and an inquisitive linguist commercialized interwoven tales successful bid to enact revenge.” (July 16)

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The Body Harvest by Michael J. Seidlinger

“J.G. Ballard’s Crash meets Albert Camus’s The Plague successful a transgressive fearfulness caller for the TikTok generation.” (July 23)

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

The celebrated histrion and the acclaimed writer squad up for this caller inspired by Reeves’ BRZRKR comics; it’s astir an immortal warrior who teams up with a black-ops radical successful bid to fulfill his decease wish, past gets pulled into a enigma adjacent greater than his ain existence. (July 23)

The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill

A trio of erstwhile friends indispensable reunite 20 years aboriginal to revive the magical powers they cultivated arsenic high-schoolers to prevention a kidnapped teen and forestall an apocalypse they whitethorn person unintentionally acceptable successful motion. (July 23)

The Drowning House by Cherie Priest

When a location washes ashore connected a Pacific Northwest land aft a vicious storm—and a antheral goes missing—his estranged friends indispensable uncover the dwelling’s evil past if they privation immoderate anticipation of uncovering him. (July 23)

The Factus Sequence - Ninth Life by Stark Holborn

When an elusive outlaw is yet captured astatine the borderline of the galaxy, a bounty huntsman indispensable hold to perceive stories astir each of her lives successful bid to cod his reward. (July 23)

Grand Theft AI by James Cox

In 2051 San Francisco, a seasoned thief and an underworld fixer squad up for the eventual high-tech heist (July 23).

Gravity Lost by L.M. Sagas

In this sequel to Cascade Failure, “everyone’s favourite fierce, messy, chaotic abstraction fam is backmost with much vibrant worlds, and the wildest unit since Guardians of the Galaxy.” (July 23)

Hera by Jennifer Saint

Zeus’ woman gets the feminist-retelling attraction successful this communicative inspired by Greek mythology. (July 23)

In the Shadow of the Fall by Tobi Ogundiran

“A cosmic warfare reignites and the destiny of the orisha prevarication successful the hands of an untried acolyte successful this archetypal introduction of a caller epic phantasy novella duology.” (July 23)

The Ornithologist’s Field Guide to Love by India Holton

“Rival ornithologists hunt done England for a uncommon magical vertebrate successful this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and chopper parasols.” (July 23)

Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen by Juno Dawson

The 3rd introduction successful the author’s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven bid “takes america backmost to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven nether the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn.” (July 23)

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Brothersong by TJ Klune

The 4th and last publication successful the author’s Green Creek phantasy romance bid astir shape-shifting wolves follows Carter arsenic helium hits the roadworthy successful hunt of Gavin. (July 30)

The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty

The movie professional and civilization writer looks backmost astatine the action-packed summertime of 1982—which saw the merchandise of E.T., Tron, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Conan the Barbarian, Blade Runner, Poltergeist, The Thing, and Mad Max: The Road Warrior—and explores however those films came to be, arsenic good arsenic their lasting interaction connected Hollywood. (July 30)

Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

This big epic phantasy follows a dying pistillate who slips into the satellite of her favourite phantasy novels, wherever she’ll request to navigate an array of monstrous fictional characters—including herself, recently formed arsenic a villain successful the story. (July 30)

Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard

“A compelling communicative of love, duty, and recovered household successful an breathtaking caller abstraction opera that brings xianxia-style martial arts to the stars.” (July 30)

One Year Ago successful Spain by Evelyn Skye

After her fellow slips into a coma, a pistillate realizes she’s capable to pass with his soul—which has go divided from his assemblage and has nary representation of her. In bid to heal him, she’ll request to enactment speech her ain doubts astir their narration and person his psyche to autumn successful emotion with her again. (July 30)

Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A idiosyncratic indispensable participate “the Zone,” a agelong of equatorial rainforest wherever the clime has go truthful utmost that warm-blooded creatures cannot past without protection, connected a unsafe rescue mission—and uncovers a firm conspiracy successful the process. (July 30)

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