The Amazon Books editors know what's hot for summer, and they've shared their 2017 favorites with CNN.
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"Dating You/Hating You": Christina Lauren's latest tells the story of two Hollywood agents who fall in love and find themselves in competition for the same position. (Lauren is the pen name of best friends and best-selling writers Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings.)
Gallery Books
"The Bear and the Nightingale": The debut novel by Katherine Arden, this tale is set in the Russian wilderness, where winter takes up most of the year and household spirits protect those who honor them. A new stepmother who refuses to pay homage to the spirits puts a girl and her family in danger.
Del Rey
"All the Birds in the Sky": Magic and technology go to war in San Francisco in this intriguing novel by Charlie Jane Anders. A la "Romeo and Juliet," a witch and a tech enthusiast fall in love, even as they must choose sides in the war.
Tor Books
"Camino Island": Of course there's trouble in John Grisham's latest thriller, where local bookseller Bruce Cable is known to deal in rare books, some of which are stolen. There's danger when a young novelist goes undercover to learn his secrets.
"The Retreat of Western Liberalism": To Edward Luce, the Financial Times US columnist and commentator, the rise of President Donald Trump is a symptom -- not the cause -- of the weakening of Western liberalism. Democracy, he argues, should not be taken for granted.
Atlantic Monthly Press
"The Late Show": Banished to the night shift after filing a sexual harassment complaint, LAPD's Renée Ballard doesn't get to finish the cases she picks up. That is, until she refuses to give two cases up in Michael Connelly's latest book.
Little, Brown and Company
"The Land of Stories: Worlds Collide": Adults remember Chris Colfer from the cast of the television series "Glee," but children know him as a best-selling author. In his conclusion to his "Land of Stories" series, publishing in July, fairy tale characters collide in the Big Apple.
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
"To Capture What We Cannot Keep": Beatrice Colin's historical novel is set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, where a French engineer and a Scottish widow defy class restrictions when they fall in love.