Memorial Day is often considered the unofficial start to summer. Many kids are entering the last weeks of school, pools start to open, and vacations from work are on the horizon. It's a time of the year that many associate with a somewhat slower pace affording, maybe, a little more free time to read. We asked some of our regular book critics what soon-to-be-published titles they are most looking forward to reading this summer. Here's what they said.

June

• Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs

• A Quitter's Paradise by Elysha Chang

• The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende

• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

• The Talk by Darrin Bell

• All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

• Loot by Tania James

• The Fear of Too Much Justice by Stephen Bright and James Kwak

• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

• The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

July

• Owner of a Lonely Heart by Beth Nguyen

• Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery

• Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

August

• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

• Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley

• Mobility by Lydia Kiesling

• Time's Mouth by Edan Lepucki

• Fever House by Keith Rosson

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