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Across the Street
By: Christian Hakiza ISBN: 9798996749805 Publisher: Growth-Addicted Publishing Publication Date: 07/29/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BEST LITERARY DEBUT 2026 A debut novel for readers of Ann Patchett, Ann Napolitano, and William Kent Krueger. “What is broken is not finished. Restoration is always possible, when someone finds the courage to face what was left undone.” In the literary tradition of Tom Lake, Hello Beautiful, and Ordinary G
Judith D Collins
Jul 196 min read
Mother Daughter Sister Stranger
By: Hank Phillippi Ryan Narrator: Stevi Incremona ISBN: 9781250350022 Publisher: Minotaur Books St. Martin's Press Publilication Date: 09/01/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Featured SEP #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats What if your own family history turns out to be a terrifying lie? Every family has its story, and this one’s deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth in this twisty and captivating thrille
Judith D Collins
Jul 196 min read
They Say A Girl Died Here
ISBN: By: Sarah Pinborough Narrator:Saskia Maarleveld ISBN: 9781250444714 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about two murdered girls, a town with dark secrets, and a race to break a deadly cycle Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of d
Judith D Collins
Jul 186 min read
Mom Brain
By: Nicole Hackett Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld ISBN: 9781400350353 Publisher: Harper Muse Audiobooks Publication Date: 04/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Hackett’s skillful plotting and character work will keep readers hooked…” - Publishers Weekly Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn't wrong . . . In the vein of Liane
Judith D Collins
Jul 176 min read
The Last To Drown
By: Noelle W. Ihli Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 979-8992716139 Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 07/16/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Five days. Twenty strangers. No way out. The rafting trip was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. But Kaia’s starting to think she made a mistake. Because ever since the whispers about Camas Creek began, all she feels is dread. Seven years earlier, a guide murdered a group of rafters o
Judith D Collins
Jul 165 min read
In Wonderland
By: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Joyce Maynard Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662540899 Publisher: LIttle A Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 In one golden summer, Frances trades her working-class world for an elite Maine lakeside estate—where privilege and betrayal turn into a deadly game. Frances believes she’s found a ticket to paradise when a wealthy couple hires her for the summer as their mother’s he
Judith D Collins
Jul 157 min read
Home for the Homicides
The Holly & Mark Mystery Series By: Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey ISBN: 9781250413352 Publisher: Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publcation Date: 10/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS 'Tis the season . . . for murder. A "Hallmark movie with a side of murder," "The festive, quirky love child of a holiday whodunit and a steamy romance.” —Sara Raasch When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christ
Judith D Collins
Jul 158 min read
Hot Girl Murder Club
By: Ashley Winstead Narrator: Brittany Pressley Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250401212 Publisher: Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP AUDIOBOOKS OF 2026 From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary. What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice
Judith D Collins
Jul 157 min read
Not A Word
By: Linwood Barclay Narrators: Nan McNamara, Johnathan McClain ISBN: 9780063276383 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home. Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in
Judith D Collins
Jul 152 min read
Pretty As A Peach
By: Grace Helena Walz Narrators: Brittany Goodwin, Natalie Duke Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9781400352852 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A preschool teacher and her retiree neighbor team up to take on a suspicious multi-level marketing scheme that has a vicelike grip on the women in their suburban Southern community. Delilah Thomas, beloved preschool teacher to the twos class, has always been
Judith D Collins
Jul 146 min read
The Shadow Friends
Martini Club #3 By: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Hillary Huber ISBN: 978-1662533419 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun. When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in
Judith D Collins
Jul 132 min read
The Country Road Murders
By: James Patterson and Mike Lupica Narrator: Tom Pelphrey ISBN: 9780316599870 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: 07/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family. Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where
Judith D Collins
Jul 135 min read
The Secrets We Hide
By: Karin Slaughter North Falls #2 Narrator: Kathleen Early ISBN: 978-0063458789 Publisher: Willliam Morrow Publication Date: 08/11/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The next thrilling mystery in the new North Falls series from Karin Slaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Girls and the Will Trent Series. Welcome back to North Falls — a small town with big secrets. Sheriff Emmy Clifton and her sister, ex-federal agent Jude Archer, in
Judith D Collins
Jul 122 min read
Patient 7
By: Sabrina Wade Narrators: Luke Persiani, Patricia Santomasso ISBN: 9798349173264 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: Format: Audio My Rating: TBR (ALC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A psychiatric patient who predicts murders—down to the details. Dr. Rachel Hadley has barely absorbed the shock of her ex-husband, psychiatrist Dr. Colton Hadley, vanishing when County Detective Lane Archer uncovers something Colton left behind: a set of taped interviews no one was suppos
Judith D Collins
Jul 112 min read
I'm Here To Help
By: Victoria Helen Stone ISBN: 9781662544309 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 10/27/206 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal To stop the corruption in her small town and avenge the victims, a therapist turns vigilante in a shocking novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of Jane Doe. Melody Stanford prides herself on being a good person. She’s a loving wife and mother, a school volunteer, a faithful friend, and a tr
Judith D Collins
Jul 82 min read
Brimstone Hollow
An Annie Gore Novel #2 By: Archer Sullivan Narrator: Emily Pike Stewart ISBN: 9781250338716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/11/1026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Following her powerful debut in The Witch’s Orchard, private investigator Annie Gore returns in Brimstone Hollow, bringing readers back to the mountains that author Archer Sullivan, a ninth-generation Appalachian, knows so well. There isn’t m
Judith D Collins
Jul 82 min read
Don't Look Away
By: Daniel Kenitz Narrators: Nancy Linari, Fred Sanders, Gary Tiedemann Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668208656 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of The Perfect Home comes a harrowing domestic crime thriller where a former defense attorney is forced out of retirement to defend her husband—now the prime suspect in the serial murder case terrorizing Florida’s Gulf Coast. Leslie W
Judith D Collins
Jul 75 min read
All the Lies We See
Jess Lambert Thriller #3 By: Christina McDonald ISBN: 978-1738518425 Publisher: Intrigue Ink Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL FEATURED #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat Framed for murder. A viral video proves it. The case she abandoned after her daughter died could save—or destroy her, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Night Olivia Fell. Detective Jess Lambert is days away from the trial of the woman a
Judith D Collins
Jul 79 min read
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
By: Ben Reeves Narrator: Mike Frankland ISBN: 9781668216361 Publisher: Avid Reader Press Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, an unforgettable and exquisitely moving novel about finding b
Judith D Collins
Jul 78 min read
Pretty Dead Things
By: Kelsey Cox Narrators: Narrated by Andrew Eiden; Brittany Pressley; Mia Wurgaft; Saskia Maarleveld; Stevi Incremona ISBN: 9781250446930 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars + (ALC) (ARC) JUL 2026-MUST-READ BOOKS Top Audiobooks of 2026 Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author K
Judith D Collins
Jul 78 min read
The Safe Room
By: Lisa Unger Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 978-1662537653 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Private investigator Rae Donovan’s relationship with her father is distant to the point of estrangement. But when she learns he’s dying in hospice, she drops everything to be at his side. By the time she arrives, he’s already too far gone to speak, and a doctor says his death is consistent with
Judith D Collins
Jul 64 min read
The Season of Sinking
By: Daphne Woolsoncroft Narrator: Natalie Van Sistine ISBN: 9781538770931 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 20265 MUST-READ BOOKS From a hit true crime podcaster turned novelist, a woman’s unsettling past creeps back into her consciousness as she returns to her hometown and begins to suspect the locals are hiding a terrible secret swirling around her mother's recent death. When Imogen Bly's mother su
Judith D Collins
Jul 55 min read
Great and Unfortunate Things
By: Jason Arday Narrator:Jason Arday ISBN: 9781668085578 Publisher: Simon & Schuster | 37 Ink Publication Date: 08/11/1026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Memoir With the power of Educated and the emotional sweep of When Breath Becomes Air, Great and Unfortunate Things is the inspiring, underdog story of how an autistic, non-verbal boy who society had all but given up on found his voice, literally and figuratively, became one of the youngest pr
Judith D Collins
Jul 53 min read
River Deep
Bitterfrost Thriller #2 By: Bryan Gruley ISBN: 978-1448316120 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL #LITLIFTMINIAUTHORCHAT TOP BOOKS OF 2026 Attorney Devyn Payne is left navigating thin ice as her small-town community fractures in the wake of a shocking crime in River Deep, the second in the Bitterfrost thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bryan Gruley. “Viscer
Judith D Collins
Jul 314 min read
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