Welcome to June. Hopefully there will be some quiet afternoons in your future this summer, or at the very least, plenty of moments for you to grab a book. We’ve put together a list of exciting new titles coming out this month that will make any reader happy.

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‘Big Sky,’ by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown, June 25)

Atkinson introduced the private investigator Jackson Brodie in her 2004 crime novel “Case Histories,” and followed up with three more Brodie novels in quick succession before turning her attention to other projects, most recently the World War II spy novel “Transcription.” Now she returns to Brodie for the first time in a decade, with a case about an unfaithful husband that turns into something much darker.