Amazon's First Reads for July 2026

Amazon has released the choices for July 2026's First Reads.

First Reads, which is free to join, provides early access to editors' picks from Amazon Publishing.

It enables you to choose one Kindle book this month and the bonus short read for $1.99 each (or for free if you're a Prime member).

• John Grebble Is Gone by Peter James (bonus short read)

• How to Ruin a Wedding by Elba Luz (romantic comedy) 

• No Light but the Stars by Lindsay Jayne Ashford (historical fiction)

• Ransom by Leslie Wolfe (legal thriller) 

• When She Was Ours by Anna Nordberg (book club fiction) 

• The Oxford Detective Society by Faith Martin (cozy mystery)

• Fields of Asphodel by Callie Rowland (historical fantasy) 

• Dead Girls Tell No Tales by Carissa Ann Lynch (psychological thriller)

• A Heartbeat at My Feet by Kristin Judd (women's fiction) 

• Where Her Secrets Lie by Katie Tallo (thriller)