<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-1lsv4am e6idgb70">JUNE</p><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure class="img-sz-small css-lt5b41 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-zgakxe erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption" class="css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0"></figcaption></figure></div><h2 class="css-tosae5 eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james-patterson/the-first-gentleman/9780316565103/?lens=little-brown" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The First Gentleman</a></h2><h3 class="css-1vs5pxi e1gnsphs0"><span>by Bill Clinton and James Patterson</span></h3><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">This thriller, the third in the best-selling partnership between the former president and the prolific novelist, follows a grieving journalist as she chronicles the murder trial of Cole Wright, an N.F.L. star as well as the president’s husband. “When we first got writing,” Patterson recently remarked, “we simply could not have dreamt this one up.”</p><p class="css-798hid etfikam0">Little, Brown June 2</p></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><hr class="css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0"><div data-testid="imageblock-wrapper"><figure class="img-sz-small css-lt5b41 e1g7ppur0" aria-label="media" role="group"><div class="css-zgakxe erfvjey0" data-testid="photoviewer-children-figure"><span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Image</span><div class="css-nwd8t8" data-testid="lazy-image"></div></div><figcaption data-testid="photoviewer-children-caption" class="css-13ytnnu ewdxa0s0"></figcaption></figure></div><h2 class="css-tosae5 eoo0vm40"><a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646858/atmosphere-by-taylor-jenkins-reid/" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Atmosphere: A Love Story</a></h2><h3 class="css-1vs5pxi e1gnsphs0"><span>by Taylor Jenkins Reid</span></h3><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Reid, the author of <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/books/review/daisy-jones-six-taylor-jenkins-reid.html" title="">“Daisy Jones &amp; The Six,”</a> infuses the stratospheric tension of a 1980s space mission with a cosmic love story in her latest novel. Joan Goodwin, an obsessive astronomy professor and a fresh face on NASA’s space shuttle program, is questioning her own ideas of life and love as she prepares for her flight. Upon liftoff, her problems amplify.</p><p class="css-798hid etfikam0">Ballantine, June 3</p></div>

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Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary Shteyngart channels a 10-year-old. Plus queer vampires, a professor in hell and an actress’s revenge.{ai:summary}<p>Bill Clinton and James Patterson release their third thriller, "The First Gentleman," featuring a journalist covering the murder trial of NFL star Cole Wright, who is also the president's husband. </p><p>Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Atmosphere: A Love Story" explores a 1980s space mission intertwined with a cosmic love story, focusing on an astronomy professor grappling with life and love as she prepares for her shuttle flight. #culture</p>

New Novels to Read This Summer

The First Gentleman

by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Atmosphere: A Love Story

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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