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A Different Type of Poison
Not every invitation is meant to be accepted. This one could be her last. by Liz Alterman Narrators: Anna Caputo, Rachel F. Hirsch, Leslie Howard Simon Maverick ISBN: 9798999924704 Publisher: One More Page Press Publication Date: 11/25/2025 Format: e-book & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS NOV featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats The Plot meets Disclaimer in a simmering, slow-burn domestic thriller and psychological suspense novel that explores the stories
Judith D Collins
Oct 233 min read
Good Hair Days
By: Grace Helena Walz Narrators: Natalie Duke, Reba Buhr ISBN: 978-1400345663 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Two sisters, a failing family business, and a whole lot of hairspray--Good Hair Days is a modern twist on Steel Magnolias with a little extra Dolly Parton flair. "I've really messed it all up, Georgia," Junie says. "And this time it's the shop. June's is in trouble." June's B
Judith D Collins
Oct 233 min read
The Room Next Door
By : Wendy Walker Narrators: Julia Whelan, Elizabeth Evans, Bebe Wood, full cast Publisher: Audible Originals Pub Date: 10/09/2025 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the bestselling author of Mad Love and American Girl comes a propulsive new thriller with a spectacular twist and an acclaimed cast. They were best friends forever. Until the night one of them disappeared. In 2010, Brooke Lowry, Carrie Hollis, and Eve Shay were inseparable. But on the
Judith D Collins
Oct 235 min read
ONe Little Mistake
By: Miranda Rijks ISBN: 9781837566648 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 11/09/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Some thoughts should never be shared. Kate thought the spreadsheet was harmless—a private ranking of her four best friends detailing their various strengths and weaknesses. But when it leaks online and goes viral, her carefully curated life implodes. Social invitations vanish, her business crumbles, even her marriage st
Judith D Collins
Oct 212 min read
Girl Dinner
By: Olivie Blake Narrators: Rita Amparita; Stephanie Németh-Parker ISBN: 9781250402738 Publisher: Mcmillan Audio Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: Audio My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #MacAudio2025 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly-fun novel about power, lust, and eating your fill, as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . . Good girls deserve a treat. Every member
Judith D Collins
Oct 217 min read
The Proving Ground
Lincoln Lawyer #8 By: Michael Connelly Narrator: Peter Giles ISBN: 978-0316563826 Publisher: Little Brown & Co. Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2025 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl. Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direct
Judith D Collins
Oct 217 min read
Vicious Cycle
Corey in Los Angeles #1 By: Jaime Parker Stickle Narrator: Sarah Naughton Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781511354462 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: audio and e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS A former reporter gets a new spin on life in this gripping debut from author Jaime Parker Stickle, whose psychological roller-coaster ride set in sunny Los Angeles tackles motherhood and murder. New mother Corey Tracey-Lieberman wa
Judith D Collins
Oct 215 min read
The Widow
By: John Grisham Narrator: Mchael Beck Random House Audio ISBN: 9780385548984 Publisher: Doubleday Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2025 The master of the legal thriller returns this fall with his first-ever whodunit. #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham is the acclaimed master of the legal thriller. Now, he’s back with his first-ever whodunit, even more suspenseful than his courtroom
Judith D Collins
Oct 216 min read
You'll Never Know
By: Caleb Stephens Narrators: Danny Montooth, Brittany Pressley, and Adam Verner ISBN: 9798991461016 Publisher: Thrillerscape Press Publication Date: 11/18/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS When his wife and unborn child are abducted, Grant Wilson races against the clock in this pulse-pounding thriller packed with riddles, danger, and the desperate fight to save his family, perfect for fans of Adrian McKinty’s The Chain. They took his wife
Judith D Collins
Oct 202 min read
The Women of Artemis
By: Hannah Lynn Narrator: Frances Butt Tantor Media ISBN: 9781728284323 Publisher: Sourebooks Landmark Publication date: 10/21/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Mothers. Daughters. Warriors. Women. This is the never-before-told story of history's most ferocious heroines: this is the rise of the Amazons. When she first married at fourteen, Otrera imagined a relationship full of love. A partnership. Years later, living in destitution wit
Judith D Collins
Oct 195 min read
The House on Mountain Laurel Lane
Gold Creek #2 By: Eileen Goudge Narrator: Rosanna Pilcher Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662518140 Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Paperback, e-book, audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) NOV Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal A widow and mom of two struggles to let go of the past and embrace the future in a powerful novel about friendship, love, and taking risks by New York Times bestselling author Eileen G
Judith D Collins
Oct 189 min read
The Burning Library
By: Gilly Macmillan Narrators: Rose Robinson, Steph de Whalley Harper Audio ISBN: 9780063422919 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 11/18/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the internationally bestselling author of The Nanny and What She Knew comes a thrilling dark academic tale of murder, obsession, and ruthless ambition, set in remote St Andrews, Scotland. A deadly rivalry. A chilling secret. One woman who can decipher the trut
Judith D Collins
Oct 184 min read
Evensong
By: Stewart O'Nan Narrator: Nancy Linari Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9780802166432 Publisher: Grove Atlantic Atlantic Monthly Press Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “Stewart O’Nan has been one of the best chroniclers of the lives of American women.” – Susan Straight An intimate, moving novel that follows The Humpty Dumpty Club, a group of women of a certain age who band together to help one another and their c
Judith D Collins
Oct 183 min read
Such a Bad Influence
By: Grace Demyan Narrator: Charlotte Lobdell Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662529061 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS DEBUT NOVEL In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited a
Judith D Collins
Oct 184 min read
The Pursued
A True Story of Stalking, Memory, and Madness in America's Heartland By: Corey Mead ISBN: 978-1662527814 Publisher: Little A Publication Date: 12/01/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR DEC 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The terrifying true story of a woman at war with a violent stalker who eluded the police for years―until they found the truth in the last place anyone would have dared to look. From 1977 to 1981, Ruth Finley, an ordinary wife and mother from Kansas, was tormented by an
Judith D Collins
Oct 182 min read
The Wife Deserved It
A Novella By: Darby Kane Narrators: Johnathan McClain, Eva Kaminsky HarperAudio ISBN: 978-0063486089 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date:10/21/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Darby Kane, author of #1 international bestseller Pretty Little Wife, delivers an unputdownable domestic thriller novella in which a man has laid the foundation for the perfect murder... or so he thinks. Reid Cavanagh is done with his marriage. He wants
Judith D Collins
Oct 184 min read
The King's Ransom
Series: The Recovery Agent #2 Gabriela Rose By: Janet Evanovich Narrator: Lorelei King Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 978-1668027479 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “Thriller master” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine) Janet Evanovich takes readers on a global hunt to track down missing masterpieces in this action-packed and steamy sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Recovery Agent
Judith D Collins
Oct 173 min read
The Midnight Knock
By: John Fram Narrators: Angel Pean, Lee Osorio ISBN: 9781668069424 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 10/21/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS For fans of Stuart Turton and Blake Crouch, a mind-bending locked-room thriller about eight strangers trapped in a remote Texas motel as they race against time to save their lives—from the acclaimed author of the “compelling, thought-provoking, page-turning” (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin a
Judith D Collins
Oct 166 min read
Always and Forever
By: Lorraine Zago Rosenthal ISBN: 979-8990833159 Publisher: Tribeca Press Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal NOV #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats Three decades ago, a tragedy ignited a chain of events that devastated two New York City families and still haunts them today. Even their youngest members, Suzanne Starek and Jay Darnell, haven't been left unscathed. Suzanne is at the end of her twenties and has bee
Judith D Collins
Oct 169 min read
Unmarried
Perfect Couples #2 By: Emily Shiner ISBN: 978-1805500902 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 11/19/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #BlogTourStop Nov 19 He killed his first wife. But I married him to protect my own secrets… I never expected to find my happily ever after with Dr Mitch Ellis. I wore a lace dress with an extravagant train to our wedding at the biggest church in town. Mitch wanted to be sure everything was flawle
Judith D Collins
Oct 152 min read
Workhorse
By: Caroline Palmer Narrator: Helen Laser ISBN: 9781250381545 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 10/14/2025 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS "Fierce, funny and unflinching."—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters A richly drawn, unsettling, and wickedly funny story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height. At the turn of the millenniu
Judith D Collins
Oct 147 min read
Remain
A Supernatural Love Story By: Nicholas Sparks with M. Night Shyamalan Narrators: Nicholas Sparks (Author, Narrator), Ari Fliakos, Julia Whelan Random House Audio ISBN: 9798217154043 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 10/14/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS A one-of-a-kind novel that grapples with the supernatural mysteries of life, death, and human connection—an unprecedented collaboration between the globally bestselling author of love s
Judith D Collins
Oct 135 min read
Gone Before Goodbye
By: Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben Narrators: Reese Witherspoon (Author, Narrator), Chris Pine, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Peter Ganim, Saskia Maarleveld, James Fouhey ISBN: 978-1538774700 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 10/14/2025 Format: Other My Rating: Currently Listening OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS An unforgettable suspense novel that combines the storytelling talents of Academy Award-winning actor Reese Witherspoon and internati
Judith D Collins
Oct 133 min read
Bone Valley
A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida By: Gilbert King Narrator: Gilbert King Macmillan Audio ISBN: 978-1250368546 Publisher: Flatiron Books Publication Date: 10/07/2025 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS #MacAudio2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King also narrates this chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark hea
Judith D Collins
Oct 126 min read
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