The books it’s crucial that you know about this season.

It’s wish fulfillment tangled up in a takedown of the patriarchy.

The author goes back 64 years to deliver the origin story of Coriolanus Snow.

May Books

Random House

It’s already in the works for a film adaptation.

(June 2)S.R.

This collection is hyper-contemporary, following topics like a celebrity nanny scandal and a rehab center.

Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

(Sept. 1)S.R.

She launches her own investigation and spirals deeper and deeper into insanity.

(June 23)S.R.

Summer Books

HarperCollins

Oh, and the entire thing takes place in a single day.

(July 7)S.R.

(June 2)S.R.

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman

Penguin Random House

(July 28)D.C.

The Hungover Games, by Sophie Heawood:Single motherhood gets a caustic spin in this intercontinental memoir.

(July 21)S.R.

Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan

Knopf

(July 28)M.S.

(June 2)S.R.

(June 2)M.S.

Summer Books

Flatiron Books

(July 7)D.C.

Beach Read, by Emily Henry:Take the subgenre literally!

This frothy novel pits a romance writer against a literary man for some fun, flirty summer competition.

(July 7)C.C.

(July 28)C.C.

(Aug. 4)S.R.

(June 16)D.C. (Aug. 4)S.R.