Summer is right around the corner, and there’s no better time to get your TBR list together. Librarians are prepping for Pride celebrations, folks are firing up the grills for Father’s Day, and readers everywhere are looking for their next beach read. And now you can shop for the biggest titles more easily than ever with Shelf Express for Public Libraries, our newest collection development feature! Sign up to automatically receive carts based on title lists created and maintained by the Digital Content Librarian team.

Whether you’re planning a vacation or enjoying the sunshine from home, everyone needs to get their summer reading ready, and we have something for everybody. Below are lists available to shop in OverDrive Marketplace to make sure your patrons are ready for the month ahead!

Pride Reads

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This list has titles for all audiences, from fiction and poetry to personal memoirs and essays. We have everything you need for your patrons to celebrate Pride throughout the month and beyond!

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Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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From the publisher: When Bernie replies to Leah’s ad for a new housemate in Philadelphia, the two begin an intense and defiantly uncategorizable friendship based on a mutual belief in their art, and one another. Both aspire to capture the world around them: Leah through her writing; Bernie through her photography.

After Bernie’s former photography professor, the renowned yet tarnished Daniel Dunn, dies and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie to his home in rural Pennsylvania, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document America through words and photographs.

What ensues is a journey into the heart of the nation, bringing the housemates into conversation with people from all walks of life—“the absurd dreamers and failures of this wide, wide country”— as they try to make sense of the times they are living in. Along the way, Leah and Bernie discover what it means to chase their own ideas and dreams, and to embrace what they are capable of both romantically and artistically.

Warm and insightful, Housemates is a story of youth and freedom—a glorious celebration of queer life, and how art and love might save us all.

Father’s Day

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Father’s Day is just around the corner, so be sure to have your best bad dad jokes at the ready! This mega list of books for and about dads includes everything from memoirs and how-to guides to our favorite fictional fathers and classic dad reads. Get your books now and be ready to hear a lot of, “Hi Reading, I’m Dad!”

Top Titles of June

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One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon

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From the publisher: Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to find her place. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on booking spa treatments and ignoring the world’s troubles.

Jasmyn’s only friends in the community are equally perplexed and frustrated by most residents’ outlook. Then Jasmyn discovers a terrible secret about Liberty and its founders. Frustration turns to dread as their loved ones start embracing the Liberty way of life.

Will the truth destroy her world in ways she never could have imagined?

Thrilling with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores the ways in which freedom is complicated by the presumptions we make about ourselves and each other.

Coming Blockbusters of June

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The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley

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From your OverDrive DCL: Lucy Foley fans, rejoice! She’s back with a new twisty locked room murder mystery where everyone has a secret.

It’s the opening night of The Manor, a resort in an English village. No expense has been spared, and luxury is the name of the game. As the Manor welcomes its guests for a summer solstice celebration, the guests’ pasts, and secrets, come to light, and by morning a dead body has been found. Twisty thrills with folk horror vibes will keep readers hooked in this perfect summer read.

Top Mystery/Thrillers of June

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The Unwedding by Ally Condie

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From your OverDrive DCL: The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie? Yes please! Ellery Wainwright had every intention of celebrating her twentieth wedding anniversary with her husband Luke at a luxurious resort in Big Sur, California, but now, recently divorced, she’s on her own. To rub salt in the wound, there’s a wedding scheduled at the resort during her stay. Things get even worst when Ellery discovers the body of the groom floating in the pool, and when a mudslide closes the road to the resort before the police can arrive, Ellery and the other guests find themselves trapped with a killer. This unpredictable adult debut delivers the perfect blend of internal and external conflict, and the sunny resort setting will have readers ready for summer.

Top Historical Fiction of June

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Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

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From the publisher: Oklahoma, 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn’t have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the remote Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an unlikely band with others like themselves, struggling to stay one step ahead of those who seek to exploit them . . . or worse.

Oklahoma, 1990. Law enforcement ranger Valerie Boren-Odell arrives at newly minted Horsethief Trail National Park seeking a quiet place to balance a career and single parenthood. But no sooner has Valerie reported for duty than she’s faced with local controversy over the park’s opening, a teenage hiker gone missing from one of the trails, and the long-hidden burial site of three children unearthed in a cave. Val’s quest for the truth wins an ally among the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police but soon collides with old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.

In this emotional and enveloping novel, Lisa Wingate traces the story of children abandoned by the law and the battle to see justice done. Amid times of deep conflict over who owns the land and its riches, Ollie and Val traverse the rugged and beautiful terrain, each leaving behind one life in search of another.

Top Fantasy of June

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Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi

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From your OverDrive DCL: The series finale to the Legacy of Orisha trilogy is finally here! When Zélie seized the royal palace, she thought her battles were over, but instead she finds herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship while warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas. Everything changes, though, when Zélie meets King Baldyr, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has destroyed entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies, but as Baldyr closes in, disaster charges Orïsha’s shores. It will take everything Zélie has to face her final enemy and save her people. And if that’s not enough to get you excited for the conclusion of this epic journey, Cynthia Erivo is narrating the audiobook!

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About the author: Claire Weibel has worked in publicity for the arts, public libraries, and archives. At OverDrive she helps public libraries manage their collections and creates lists of the hottest titles to help her partners shop and promote their collections to their patrons. When she isn’t reading she loves to run, try new recipes (while listening to an audiobook), plan her next road trip, or hang out with her two dogs and cat. Claire is always excited to talk about a good mystery or spooky books!