Summer reading: Sunday books coverage for June 6, 2010.

Having trouble deciding what to read this season? Let us help you with a selection, made by the Times’ book editors, of forthcoming titles.

A girl can taste the emotions of humans who prepared her food.

For years, Hilary Thayer Hamann’s unconventional novel was mired in self-published limbo, but her perseverance and belief in the novel’s value helped get it picked up by a major publisher.

Breaking fantasy from the genre ghetto: That’s one result of the splendid anthology ‘Stories: All-New Tales’ edited by Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. Plus: ‘the Penguin Book of Ghost Stories’ edited by Michael Newton.

Going inside the unglamorous world of sports gambling.

Each chapter in this novel about the music business is told from a different character’s point of view.

Though a little light in the sex department, this compilation featuring stories by Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates and others is airplane/beach/hotel reading at its best.

Riding the waves of ‘Sweetness and Blood,’ ‘Kook’ and ‘The Surf Guru.’