The Best New Books of Summer 2024

Check out some of the most anticipated books releasing Summer 2024 available to ship nationwide via the Bookshop platform. Make sure you see “Picture Book” in the upper left corner when you checkout to ensure your purchase is credited to our shop.

Find great summer reads like The Memo by (Hastings’ own!) Rachel Dodes and Lauren Mechling, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (author of Fleishman Is In Trouble), The God of the Woods by Liz Moore, and Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

In art books, there is a new gorgeous monograph on Mickalene Thomas that is must-have addition to your contemporary art book collection, and a new Martin Puryear book that beautifully documents the unveiling of his monumental site-specific installation, Lookout, at Storm King Art Center.

For kids, there is a new picture book by Oliver Jeffers out in August, the wonderfully weird picture book Millie Fleur's Poison Garden, and the newest addition to the Cat on the Run series by Aaron Blabey (Bad Guys).