Top 5 Historical Fiction Books To Be Released On June 2025

Historical fiction has the power to educate readers about the past.  Historical fiction may be a very useful tool for learning more about significant occasions, eras, and personalities that have influenced our world via gripping stories, interesting characters, and intriguing plotlines.

 The following are a few historical fiction books that will be published in June 2025:

1. Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Set against the background of the Space Shuttle program in the 1980s, this epic new novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & the Six explores the tremendous lengths we go to in order to live and love beyond our bounds.  Taylor Jenkins Reid is at her finest in Atmosphere, a fast-paced, exciting, and emotionally charged novel that takes readers to famous eras and locations, has nuanced characters, and tells a passionate and lofty tale about the transformational power of love—this time in the stars.  Ballantine Books anticipates publishing this book on June 3, 2025.

2. What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

In this thrilling book about family, identity, and the ability to control our own fates, a young girl escapes her father's world of seclusion. It was written by the New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Things and Watch Me Disappear.  Random House anticipates publishing this book on June 3, 2025.

3. The Listeners by Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, shines in this captivating portrayal of an enticing woman, an improbable relationship, and a hotel—and a world—in danger.  June Porter Hudson, a local girl who became general manager, has expertly led the Avallon through the initial hardships of war.  She has had excellent training from the hotel's aristocratic proprietors, the Gilfoyles.  However, June has to convince her employees—many of whom have husbands and sons leaving for the front lines—to provide luxury to Nazis after the family heir strikes a covert agreement with the State Department to stock the hotel with captured Axis officials.  Grinning.  Viking is anticipated to release this book on June 3, 2025.

4. A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

A beautiful and groundbreaking first book about the terrible fallout from one woman's infidelity.  Intimacy and injustice, love and loss, custody and care, and whether it is possible to get past the scars of the past in the modern, altered world are all explored in the painful and uplifting novel A Family Matter.  It is anticipated that Scribner will publish this book on June 3, 2025.

5. The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel

New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel, who "is the best there is at sweeping historical drama," is back with a thrilling new book about a decades-old murder investigation, two jewel thieves, and a magnificent bracelet that vanishes in 1940s Paris.  Gallery Books anticipates publishing this book on June 17, 2025.