HOT OFF THE PRESSES For your summer reading

What’s on your summer reading list? You may want to check out these suggested by The Los Angeles Times editors. All come out this month:

“Await Your Reply” by Dan Chaon (Ballantine): A long-lost twin carefully eludes his brother, while a high school graduate has second thoughts about running away to start a new life with her old teacher.

“Before the Big Bang: The Prehistory of Our Universe” by Brian Clegg (St. Martin’s Press): Why we may want to reconsider conventional thinking on the beginnings of the universe.

“The Bride’s Farewell” by Meg Rosoff (Viking): A poor young woman in 1850s England flees her home and future responsibilities on her wedding day but soon realizes she can’t escape her past.

“An Expensive Education” by Nick McDonnell (Atlantic Monthly Press): Ivory tower debate on the future of Africa meets real-world troubles in Somalia.

“Heart of the Assassin” by Robert Ferrigno (Scribner): A relic of Christ’s cross could help to unite an America divided into Muslim and Christian sectors in this post-apocalyptic story.

“Imperial” by William T. Vollmann (Viking): Massive and deeply idiosyncratic, Vollmann’s 1,300-plus-page look at the U.S.-Mexico border region is as elusive as the area it evokes.

“Inherent Vice” by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin Press): Pynchon goes noir — or sort of, in this novel that takes place in late 1960s LA.

“It Feels So Good When I Stop” by Joe Pernice (Riverhead): The singer-songwriter pens an adult-beverage tale.

“The Magicians” By Lev Grossman (Viking): A fantasy-loving student discovers that a magical land he read about as a child really exists — though it is a darker, more dangerous place than he expected.

“A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disasters” by Rebecca Solnit (Viking): Is disaster good for society? Solnit thinks so, and in this provocative book, she explains why.

“Red to Black” by Alex Dryden (Ecco): Two agents — one British, one Russian — fall in love while spying on each other and join forces.

“Self Murder: A Gerhard Self Mystery” by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage): The author of “The Reader” returns with a dour, elderly sleuth who is assigned to track down the silent partner in a successful German bank.

“Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading” by Lizzie Skurnick (Avon): A reader’s memoir of the long relationships we form with certain books.

“The Silent Hour” by Michael Koryta (Minotaur): A posh (and creepy) mansion once used as a rehab for paroled murderers contains secrets only P.I. Lincoln Perry can solve.

“Silver Lake” by Peter Gadol (Bleak House Books): Two architects’ happy life together is shattered by a peculiar yet attractive stranger.

“Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up” by K.C. Cole (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): The writer chronicles the life of the physicist, brother of Robert, and his revolutionary ideas in art and science.

“South of Broad” by Pat Conroy Nan A. Talese/Doubleday): A diverse group of teens in Charleston, S.C., forms close bonds amid social upheaval and personal travails.

“Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness” by Tracy Kidder (Random House): The author follows a young medical student’s escape from ethnic tensions in Burundi and his eventual return to build a clinic for his people.

“That Old Cape Magic” by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf): Everything changes for Jack and Joy Griffin, but the one constant in their family’s life is the presence of Cape Cod.