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Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the June 25th issue include:

One Day, by David Nicholls. Vintage. Print length: 448 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...light but surprisingly deep romance...a nuanced love story disguised as a beach read." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (16 reviews). Kindle edition $8.97. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. They both know that the next day, after college graduation, they must go their separate ways. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. As the years go by, Dex and Em begin to lead separate lives - lives very different from the people they once dreamed they'd become. And yet, unable to let go of that special something that grabbed onto them that first night, an extraordinary relationship develops between the two. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day - July 15th - of each year. Dex and Em face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed, they must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself." - Amazon.

The Nobodies Album, by Carolyn Parkhurst. Doubleday. Print length: 320 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "...a low-key, introspective murder-mystery...pinhole glimpse into the mind of a fascinating woman..." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (4 reviews). Kindle edition $12.84. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just completed her latest book - a revolutionary novel in which she has rewritten the last chapters of all her previous books, removing clues about her personal life concealed within, especially a horrific tragedy that befell her family years ago. On her way to deliver the manuscript to her editor, Octavia reads a news crawl in Times Square and learns that her rock-star son, Milo, has been arrested for murder." - Amazon.
$9.99 or less alternative: The Dogs of Babel, Parkhurst's debut novel.

So Cold the River, by Michael Koryta. Little, Brown and Company. Print length: 528 p. THRILLER. EW's slant: "...swigs from the fount of Stephen King..." Amazon customer rating: 4 1/2 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $11.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.

"Filmmaker Eric Shaw had a knack for getting the exact right shot - an unexplained tug that unerringly put him on the right path - until his temper killed his Hollywood career. He gets a shot at redemption when a wealthy young woman commissions a video tribute for her father-in-law, a dying millionaire named Campbell Bradford. A man with a shady past, a town with a rich history, and an antique bottle of water claiming to 'cure all ills' lead Shaw to small town West Baden, where things quickly go sideways. Shaw finds himself at odds with Bradford's only surviving family, a bitter and violent great-grandson named Josiah, and that once familiar tug of Shaw's becomes something darker and more dangerous." - Daphne Durham.
$9.99 or less alternative: Envy the Night, a first-rate mystery that George Pelecanos called "Koryta's best work to date.".

Mr. Peanut, by Adam Ross. Knopf. Print length: 352 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: " one of the most hyped novels of the summer - and for the life of me, I'm not sure why." Amazon customer rating: 3 1/2 stars (31 reviews). Kindle edition $14.27. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
"Ross's inspired debut explores the proximity of violence and love and begins with the death of Alice Pepin, whose lifelong struggle with depression, insecurity, and obesity comes to an abrupt end at her kitchen table when she is found dead with a peanut lodged in her throat. She has suffered suicide by anaphylactic shock - or so claims her husband, David, a quiet computer game programmer obsessed with M.C. Escher, Hitchcock, and working and re-working a draft of his unpublished novel, a violent possible masterpiece. Gradually, the two detectives on the case begin to see disturbing parallels between their own marital dramas and the Pepins' cruel rotations of brinkmanship and adoration... a unique book - stark and sublime, creepy and fearless - that readers into the darker end of the literary spectrum won't want to miss." - Publishers Weekly.
$9.99 or less alternative: Abandoned, by Cody Mcfadyen, another thriller about crimes against spouses.

The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman. Dial Press. Print length: 288 p. NOVEL. EW's slant: "The hot first novel that wowed Brad Pitt." Amazon customer rating: 4 stars (105 reviews). Kindle edition $9.99. Text-to-Speech: Disabled.
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it - and themselves - afloat. Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff’s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers that her job cuts and her love life are intertwined in a most unexpected way. Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego. And in the shadows is the isolated young publisher who pays more attention to his prized basset hound, Schopenhauer, than to the fate of his family’s quirky newspaper." - Amazon.