When microbiologist Henry Parsons travels to the country on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, he soon sees things take a dangerous turn as a pandemic begins.

The book takes place at an internment camp in Indonesia, where 47 people are pronounced dead after struggling with a hemorrhagic fever. Author Lawrence Wright - a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and staff writer for The New Yorker - has penned a thriller about a pandemic, which will be released amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The title of The End of October (Knopf) may hint toward the fall season, but the book's summer release comes at a coincidental time. Not all of these selections come out this summer - some are already available, some release in the early fall - but, with strong ties to entertainment and offering escapist pleasures, they are the perfect companions for the warmer months.īelow, The Hollywood Reporter has compiled a list of books that readers must keep on their radar this summer.

This summer, Josh Malerman revisits Malorie and the mysterious creatures that cannot be seen 10 years after the original Bird Box book was released Carrie Fisher’s former assistant publishes a fictionalized account of his history with the late star Crazy Rich Asians' author Kevin Kwan returns with a new, glamorous love story Suzanne Collins revives the world of Panem in a Hunger Games prequel that tells the tale of someone unexpected and Curtis Sittenfeld reimagines Hillary Clinton's life for her new book.

Though unable to visit the beaches and embark on summer vacations, summer readers can journey into various storytelling worlds whether it be fiction from popular novelists, pandemic-themed works, books with similar plots to TV favorites or memoirs from inspiring authors. As the coronavirus pandemic has prompted a new normal of staying at home, leaving indie bookstores to shutter their retail operations, that doesn't stop everyone from finding entertainment in newly released books this summer.

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