Everything I Read in June 2026
Since June was our busy travel month this summer, it wound up being a quieter reading month for me. The six books I read this month were evenly split between contemporary romance and historical fantasy. The month was full of mostly winners, with a particularly great duology I highly recommend checking out (the second book comes out later this year). If you love history, be sure to check out the fantasy section here for genre-bending reads I think you’ll love as much as I did!
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Of the 6 books I read this month, here are my top favorites:
- If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle
- The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
- The Fallen City Duology by Adrienne Young
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Table of Contents:
June 2026 In Books
Contemporary & Literary Fiction
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
4/5 Stars
I listened to the audiobook of this towards the beginning of the month and found it to be a great summer read. Our Perfect Storm was all over bookstagram, and I can see why it was so popular. It has witty banter, strong relationships, and great characters. There’s a hint of the miscommunication trope which is not to my taste, but otherwise I really enjoyed it. It certainly will make you want to visit Tofino.
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune is available from Amazon here and from Bookshop.org here.
If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle
5/5 Stars
If you’re kind of into the occasional thriller (like me) and you love a good rom com, go ahead and pre-order this book. The premise is totally unique — the FMC makes a wish to be the heroine in one her favorite romance writer’s books, which comes true, but the writer is trying her hand at writing a crime triller. This book is funny, clever, and plays on all the great rom com and thriller tropes in a delightfully witty way.
If Books Could Kill by Kate Eberle is available from Amazon here and from Bookshop.org here.
So It Grows by Andie Burke
2/5 Stars
This book is cute and entertaining enough — a nice light hearted rom com about rival shop owners in a small town in Kansas. She owns a plant shop, he’s a chef, and they’re essentially enemies to lovers but it all felt very rushed and like there were a lot of gaps in the story for me. She’s quirky with a dark history and he has a hidden past. Cliches aren’t inherently bad, but there were just so many of them here. I might not have been in the right mood for it.
So It Grows by Andie Burke is available from Amazon here and from Bookshop.org here.
Fantasy
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann
5/5 Stars
Part fantasy, part historical fiction, part Arthurian lore…. This book really had it all. Picking up in the grisly hours after Anne Boleyn is beheaded, the late queen finds she is not quite late yet — think the Gawain and the Green Knight legend. She decides to enact her revenge on her husband, the king, and the story goes from there. It has magic and lore, history and romance. Really, it has it all. A fun alternate history read for Tudor history lovers who wanted better for Anne.
The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann available from Amazon here and from Bookshop.org here.
The Fallen City Duology by Adrienne Young
5/5 Stars
This duology from Adrienne Young is a must-read for history and fantasy lovers. It is fundamentally a fantasy book set, full of political intrigue with a forbidden romance between a legionnaire and a magistrate’s daughter in a sort of Roman inspired world full of old magic. The first book, Fallen City, is a robust novel on its own, but it really sets up the second book, Chosen Son, which is pretty action packed. I loved how much world building Adrienne Young managed without making it overwhelming (a tough task, I am sure). I wish there were more in the series!
The Fallen City Duology by Adrienne Young is available from Amazon here and from Bookshop.org here.
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