If you have a digital subscription to The New York Times, then you can click here to read Kate Dwyer’s “24 Works of Fiction to Read This Summer.”

If, however, you do not, then I am choosing five titles to titillate your senses, arouse your curiosity, whet your appetite, and have you perked up about getting hot and heavy with reading this summer…in case you’re, you know, into that kind of thing. (Please note that I have NOT read any of these titles and have based my choices solely on their write-up in the Times or my knowledge of the author’s past work.)

1. Nothing Special, by Nicole Flattery

A disaffected and adrift teenager, Mae, becomes a transcriber for Andy Warhol as the artist records the Factory’s happenings as source material for a novel. Along with her fellow secretary Shelley, Mae grapples with vanity, commodification and fame.

2. Happiness Falls, by Angie Kim

Kim, who won acclaim for her debut novel, “Miracle Creek,” follows a Korean American family in Virginia grappling with a crisis: When a teenager named Eugene — who has a rare genetic condition that prevents him from speaking — comes home from a walk covered in blood and without his father, the family must investigate the disappearance and find a way for Eugene to reveal what happened.

3. Crook Manifesto, by Colson Whitehead

Ray Carney, the antihero of Whitehead’s 2021 novel “Harlem Shuffle,” is back, trying to keep his life on track: He’s stopped fencing stolen goods, and runs a thriving furniture store in Harlem. Things seem to be going according to plan until his daughter asks for Jackson 5 tickets, and a corrupt NYPD officer offers seats in exchange for a jewelry heist.

4. Loot, by Tania James

In James’s third novel, set in 18th-century India and France, a teenage artisan named Abbas is recruited by the ruler of Mysore, in southern India, to apprentice with a French clockmaker who is building an automaton of a tiger attacking a British soldier. Years later, after Mysore falls to the British, Abbas must steal back the artifact from a country estate.

5. Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck

After the death of her former lover, a woman receives two cardboard boxes full of his possessions, prompting her to relive their relationship: It began when she was 19, he was 53, and 1980s Berlin was on the precipice of seismic change. The novel, which was translated by Michael Hofmann, is her sixth to be released in English; our critic Dwight Garner noted that this “profound and moving book has a subterranean force.”