Summer is a great time to hike, bike, and just get your body moving after the long chill of winter and spring. But it’s also a great opportunity to enrich your mind with a good book. If you’re looking forward to hours of rewarding reading this summer, consider these recently published and upcoming titles that have caught the attention of book fans.

Before I Go to Sleep (Harper): This debut by writer S.J. Watson is billed as a brooding, psychological thriller akin to the movie Memento. A woman with amnesia awakens to an unfamiliar life every day, and as she begins to investigate her past, she makes disturbing discoveries.

The Kid (Penguin Press HC): The author Sapphire broke out when her novel Push – about the struggles of an overweight African-American girl - was turned into the hit movie Precious. Advance word describes this book as a sequel to Precious, in which the character’s son faces his own struggles as he grows up in a tough environment.

Bossypants (Reagan Arthur Books): Tina Fey has been front and center in American culture the past few years with her sitcom 30 Rock and her impersonation of Sarah Palin. With her new book, Fey continues to cement her central position in today’s comedy scene (while looking funny on the cover, which portrays her with huge, hairy man arms). The book offers her observations on the state of the world, everyday aggravations, and scenes from her own life.

In the Garden of Beasts (Crown): In his book Devil in the White City, Erik Larson brought to life the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 … and a devious real-life villain who made a killing during the fair. Larson sets his new book in Berlin in 1933 as the Nazis begin changing the course of history, and he populates the pages with some recognizable names, as well as players who may be unfamiliar to readers.