10 books to read in June, new page-turners from Dave Eggers, James Ellroy and more

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Reading List10 books for your June reading listIf you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.As beach season begins in earnest, so should beach-reading season be given its due.June’s new fiction releases include a darkly gothic novel, a totally charming novel and a novel filled with 1960s L.A.

dread.Nonfiction features a cross-country road trip, an important celebrity memoir (yes, they exist!) and a buzzy account of corruption in chess.

Happy reading!FICTION:The Children: A Novel By Melissa AlbertWilliam Morrow: 416 pp., $32(June 2)Famous artists who use their own children in their work include Henri Matisse, Sally Mann and here, a fictional children’s book author named Edith Sharpe — an excellent choice for YA author Albert in her first book for adults.Ennis and Guin Sharpe, now in their 30s, spent six idyllic years in Vermont before their mother’s death in a fire.

The ways the siblings cope with their versions of reality are quite different, quite haunting and quite thought-provoking.Alan Opts Out: A Novel By Courtney MaumLittle, Brown and Company: 352 pp., $29(June 2)Maum has said that she was inspired to write this novel about an affluent, Greenwich-based ad exec by the superabundance of enormous plastic water bottles covered in stickers: “Who’s thinking about the landfills where all these bottles are going to go?” Her 50-something protagonist, Alan Anderson, and his socially striving wife Vivian, are at least about to start thinking about where their family is going to go, once Alan retreats to a backyard playhouse.Contrapposto: A Novel By Dave EggersKnopf: 432 pp., $32(June 9)All hail a new Eggers book that’s character-driven, focusing on the long friendship between Robert “Cricket” Dibb and Olympia Argyros, close in age but years apart psychically.Both manage to grow ...