16 New Books Coming in July

The Cliffs, by J. Courtney Sullivan

A dilapidated lavender mansion, perched high on a craggy bluff in Maine, turns out to be more than a home: It’s the key to a century of hopes, misdeeds and family ghosts.

Knopf, July 2

The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore

Moore’s fifth novel takes place at an Adirondack summer camp where the daughter of the owner goes missing. Strangely — and alarmingly — she isn’t the first person in her family to disappear from this secluded idyll. Who is responsible?

Riverhead, July 2

Private Revolutions, by Yuan Yang

This story of four women’s coming-of-age spans six years in China in the 1980s and ‘90s, offering a portrait both sweeping and intimate — as much a study of a radically changing society as of four very different people.

Viking, July 2