Here they are as promised…our predictions for summer bestsellers. Many are by the usual brand name authors we’ve come to expect, but others may be a surprise, as we took this opportunity to go out on a limb a bit. We’ve included paperback originals as well as hardcovers.

We’ll see later if we were right in our predictions. In the meantime, let us know if you think we’ve missed a title—and especially—which books you’re most looking forward to reading personally.

June 2008

Lawrence Block – Hit and Run

Meg Cabot – Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

Ethan Canin – America, America

Lee Child – Nothing to Lose

Jackie Collins – Married Lovers

Claire Cook – Summer Blowout

Catherine Coulter – Tailspin

Deborah Crombie – Where Memories Lie

Clive Cussler – Plague Ship

Jeffrey Deaver – The Broken Window

Andre Dubus III – The Garden of Last Days

Suzanne Enoch – After the Kiss: The Notorious Gentlemen

Janet Evanovich – Fearless Fourteen

Jane Green – The Beach House

W. E. B. Griffin – Death and Honor

David Guterson – The Other

Marian Keyes – This Charming Man

Jon Land – The Seven Sins: Tyrant Ascending

Billie Letts – Made in the USA

Johanna Lindsey – No Choice but Seduction

Joyce Carol Oates – My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike

Robert B. Parker – Resolution

James Patterson & Howard Roughan – Sail

Kimberla Lawson Roby – One in a Million

James Rollins – The Last Oracle

Danielle Steel – Rogue

Liz Tuccillo – How to Be Single

Penny Vincenzi – An Absolute Scandal

David Wroblewski – The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

July 2008

Nina Bangs – Eternal Pleasure

Brunonia Barry – The Lace Reader

Suzanne Brockmann – Into the Fire

James Lee Burke – Swan Peak

Robert Crais – Chasing Darkness

Jocelynn Drake – Nightwalker

Suzanne Enoch – Before the Scandal: the Notorious Gentlemen

Raymond E. Feist & S.M. Stirling – Jimmy the Hand: Legends of Riftwar, Book 3

Lisa Gardner – Say Goodbye

Linda Greenlaw – Fisherman’s Bend

Beth Gutcheon – Good-Bye and Amen

Jennifer Haigh – The Condition

E. Lynn Harris – Just Too Good To Be True

Linda Howard – Death Angel

J.A. Jance – Damage Control

Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen – Silent Thunder

Eve Kenin – Hidden

Marjorie M. Liu – The Wild Road

Michelle Maddox – Countdown

Teresa Medeiros – Some Like It Wicked

James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge – The Dangerous Days of Daniel X

Ridley Pearson – Killer View

Christopher Reich – Rules of Deception

Luanne Rice – Last Kiss

Nora Roberts – Tribute

Daniel Silva – Moscow Rules

Karin Slaughter – Fractured

Brad Thor – The Last Patriot

Harry Turtledove – The Man with the Iron Heart

Madeleine Wickham – Sleeping Arrangements

August 2008

Sandra Brown – Smoke Screen

Mary Jane Clark – It Only Takes a Moment

Robin Cook – Foreign Body

Stephen Coonts – The Assassin

Cassie Edwards – Savage Abandon

Dick Francis and Felix Francis – Silks

Faye Kellerman – The Mercedes Coffin

Sherrilyn Kenyon – Acheron

Marianne Mancusi – Razor Girl

Stephenie Meyer – Breaking Dawn

Elizabeth Peters – The Laughter of Dead Kings

Anne Rivers Siddons – Off Season

Sean Williams – Star Wars: the Force Unleashed

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