A curated selection of July's must-read novels

THIS July, Exclusive Books has carefully curated selection of literary treasures, featuring compelling fiction from two #1 New York Times bestselling authors and literary legend Isabel Allende, alongside captivating titles for younger readers. Dive into a month filled with stories that spark imagination, stir emotions, and transport you to worlds both familiar and extraordinary.

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Florence Knapp's unforgettable debut novel, The Names, has become an instant global sensation.

It poses the question of how a name can shape the course of a life and explores those pivotal what-if moments that can alter a person's fate.

Tomorrow - if morning comes and the storm stops raging - ora will register her son's name. Or perhaps, and this is her real concern, she will formalise who he will become.

Kristin Hannah's Summer Island tells the story of thirty-four-year-old Ruby Bridge, a comedienne who struggles to find success. Ruby uses her mother, a nationally syndicated “moral and spiritual counsellor,” as the main fodder for her cynical, often bitter humour.

Her mother, Nora, long divorced from Ruby’s father, is a woman whose past is about to catch up with her in the form of blackmail by a former lover.

After an accident - an attempted suicide? - Ruby returns to care for her ailing mother, bitterly resenting the fact that her mother’s life has once again taken over her own. When approached by a publisher to write a biography of her mother, Ruby is desperate for the princely sum offered.

Yet her research into her mother’s past reveals a woman very different from the one Ruby expected.