Thousands of books are published each month. And much as we’d like to, we can’t read (or review) them all. But what we can do is point out a few we think you might enjoy. In that spirit, here’s a rundown of forthcoming titles that caught our eye and may catch yours, too.

Oops...That’s Illegal! A Handbook for the Wildly Curious (and the Accidental Outlaw) by Mike Mandell (June 16th, Balance, 256 pp.). There are laws against many things you’d never imagine, and you’ll surely break some this summer. Cops and judges will tell you ignorance is no excuse, so read Oops to learn if lying on your dating profile is illegal or if it’s okay to do a U-turn when you spot a DUI checkpoint.

Waves of Burden by Curtis Ippolito (June 24th, Rock and a Hard Place Press, 332 pp.). Drew Jones has put the bad old days as a foster kid behind him. Now, he’s got a wife, a business, and a baby on the way. But when a long-ago friend resurfaces and exposes Drew to San Diego’s seamy underbelly, he’s forced to reckon with what it means to be loyal to both his families: the one from the past and the one in the present.

Man Overboard!: A Novel by Kathleen Rooney (July 7th, Gallery Books, 208 pp.). Patrick “Kick” Kilpatrick  doesn’t like bobbing in the ocean and isn’t quite sure how he ended up there. (Did he fall off the ship?) But while treading water and hoping for rescue, he has many hours to consider how the cruise with his extended family went awry. 

Generation F*cked: How Millennials and Gen Z Were Robbed of the American Dream and How We Can Fix Our Futures by Freddie Smith (July 14th, BenBella Books, 264 pp.). It seems like so many younger folks are unable to achieve the same financial success as their parents. When did things go sideways, and how can we change course?

Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists’ Adventures Into the Unknown by Roberta Kwok (July 21st, Sourcebooks, 368 pp.). Science is all about experimenting to see how and why things tick under various conditions. Sometimes, doing so requires researchers to put themselves in harm’s way for the sake of making important discoveries.

Undesirable: Invasive Species, Humans, and Where We All Belong by Amy Crawford (Aug. 3rd, Oxford University Press, 288 pp.). Should you stomp, with extreme prejudice, those spotted lanternflies that are ruining local vineyards? Probably. But our ways of dealing with invasive species can often create new problems. (Ask Australians about cane toads, which were introduced to control the beetles destroying sugar crops.)

Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (Aug. 4th, Penguin Random House, 384 pp.). Shout “Day-O” in a crowded place, and you’re likely to hear it back, but making Caribbean music cool decades before Jimmy Buffett was just one of Harry Belafonte’s accomplishments. He was a movie and TV star and an activist whose friends ranged from Fidel Castro to Nelson Mandela to Martin Luther King Jr.

Fret: A Novel by Nadia Bozak (Aug. 25th, ECW Press, 256 pp.). It’s been years since Kate enjoyed a bit of fame as part of an indie-rock duo with her little sister. But the music stopped, and she’s now a struggling single mother of two. Then, things get much worse: Her car is stolen with her daughter still inside.

Reality TV for Snobs: Everything You Need to Know About the Shows You’re Too Intellectual to Watch by Ali Barthwell (Aug. 25th, Quirk Books, 256 pp.). Too highfalutin to binge “Survivor” or check in with the “Real Housewives”? Sure you are. But even if you do cop to loving a good reality show, who’s got time to keep track of them all? Author Ali Barthwell, that’s who.

Erratica: On Climbing, Language, and Touching Stone by Brian Laidlaw (Sept. 8th, Milkweed Editions, 232 pp.). Conquering California’s El Capitan left author Brian Laidlaw humbled, awed, and utterly at a loss for words to describe the experience of ascending Earth’s most formidable heights. Erratica is his attempt to find them.

The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick (Sept. 15th, Legacy Lit, 288 pp.). He was a Super Bowl quarterback who’d grown increasingly disillusioned with the NFL’s exploitation of Black people. Taking a knee during the National Anthem before a game was a calculated protest that effectively ended Colin Kaepernick’s career but also drew unparalled attention to the issue both on the field and off.

The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch by Genevieve Plunkett (Sept. 15th, Amethyst Editions, 296 pp.). It’s 2005, and hapless twentysomething Drew heads to Vermont for a job. She always assumed she was straight, but one look at the alluring, much-older Cleo ignites a queer romance that leaves both women — and half the town — reeling.  

Jérôme Lindon by Jean Echenoz; translated by Mark Polizzotti (Sept. 15th, Archipelago, 64 pp.). In this “genre-defying meditation,” author Echenoz lovingly (and wittily) reflects on his working relationship with his longtime editor, Jérôme Lindon, founder of Les Editions de Minuit.