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How to Kill a Guy in Ten Dates
By: Shailee Thompson Narrators:Stefanie Kay, Patrick Zeller, Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668206713 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 02/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A humorous, swoony, and downright terrifying slasher rom-com in which a cinephile gets caught in the middle of a murder spree at a speed-dating event and must use her encyclopedic knowledge of the romance and horror genres to make it as a real-life Final Gi
Judith D Collins
Jan 93 min read
Hope Rises
Walter Nash #2 By: David Baldacci ISBN: 978-1538758021 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: Format: Hardcover My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this thrilling sequel to Nash Falls from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci. Walter Nash, working under the alias of Dillon Hope, is on
Judith D Collins
Jan 92 min read
Adrift
By: Will Dean Narrator: Emma Wilkes Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668080054 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 02/17/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The author of the “master class in suspense” (Shari Lapena,New York Timesbestselling author)The Chamber returns with a high-tension thriller about a family’s descent into darkness that is perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane and Lisa Jewell. Peggy and Drew, both aspiring writers, move to an
Judith D Collins
Jan 73 min read
I Came Back For You
By: Kate White Narrator: Sarah Naughton Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662533976 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 03/01/2026 Format: e-book & audio My Rating: TBR MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A mother begins to challenge everything she’s been told about her daughter’s murder in a shocking novel of suspense by a New York Times bestselling author. Ten years after her daughter, Melanie, was murdered, Bree Winter is finally moving on with a new love, a new home, and a new b
Judith D Collins
Jan 73 min read
Best Boy
By: Deborah Goodrich Royce Narrator: TBA Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 9798895653340 Publisher: Post Hill Press Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A gripping psychological thriller, Best Boy teeters on the knife-edge of memory and identity when the arrival of a shocking letter threatens the carefully constructed life of a woman desperate to outrun her past. Viveca Stevenson has it all: a handsome and successful husba
Judith D Collins
Jan 65 min read
Wildwood
By: Amy Pease Narrators: Chris Henry Coffey, Amanda Dolan Simon & Schuster Audio Northwoods #2 ISBN: 9781668078723 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 01/06/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of the “riveting debut” (People) Northwoods, a mother-son law enforcement team confront buried secrets in their small town as they work to expose a conspiracy that goes far beyond the tight-knit community. Deputy Sherif
Judith D Collins
Jan 610 min read
Pinky Swear
By: Danielle Girard Narrators: Amanda Dolan, Rebekkah Ross Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668096529 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From Danielle Girard, the USA TODAY bestselling author who “effortlessly ratchets up the tension” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a young woman whose surrogate disappears just days before the baby’s due d
Judith D Collins
Jan 43 min read
Keeper of Lost Children
By: Sadequa Johnson Narrators: Sadeqa Johnson, Ariel Blake, Karen Chilton, Adam Lazarre-White Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668069912 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 02/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way. Lost in the streets and smoldering rubb
Judith D Collins
Jan 43 min read
The Last Father-Daughter Dance
A Short Story By: Lisa Wingate Narrator: Sarah Naughton ISBN: 978-1662537134 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 01/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS For a father and daughter, it’s a journey through the four seasons in a poignant short story about memories and everlasting love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate. Olympic silver medalist Kalista Brooks has built a successful life in California, complete with
Judith D Collins
Jan 35 min read
The Women In White
By: Sarah Pekkanen ISBN: 9781250349552 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Extrasensory perception. The Gift. A Sixth Sense. Or something else…. In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from his
Judith D Collins
Jan 32 min read
The Things We Never Say
By: Elizabeth Strout ISBN: 9798217154746 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 05/05/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is living
Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read
Five
By: Ilona Bannister ISBN: 979-8217088027 Publisher: Crown Publication Date: 05/05/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Five lives. Five stories. Four will live—one will die. Who it will be? In this slow-burn masterpiece of psychological fiction, the choice is all yours. “Five is a gripping, chilling story that asks difficult questions about judgement, forgiveness, and the notion of cause and effect.”—Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of
Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read
The Final Target
By: Nora Roberts ISBN: 9781250413581 Publisher: St Martin's Press Publication Date: 05/28/2026 Format: other My Rating:TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A young author becomes the object of a fan’s desire—and rage—in the gripping thriller by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden Nature. He showed up at Arden Bowie’s debut author appearance with a copy of her novel and an eager smile. He showered her with compliments and got her autograph. Then he came to her n
Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read
The First Thread
FBI Agent Daisy Adams #1 By: Nadija Mujagic Narrators: Matt Godfrey, Jennifer Pickens ISBN: 9798318531545 Publisher: Tantor Audio Publication Date: 12/23/2025 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) DEC 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The 1980s: a decade when thousands of children vanished—and most were never found. When six-year-old Charlotte Mercer disappears from her front yard in Silver Spring, Maryland, rookie FBI Agent Daisy Adams is thrust into a case that feels more like a haunti
Judith D Collins
Dec 23, 20254 min read
take Hart
Corey in Los Angeles #2 By: Jaime Parker Stickle ISBN: 978-1662531750 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Between her LAPD consulting gig, fledgling indie news blog, and postpartum panic disorder, former TV journalist Corey Tracey-Lieberman is barely keeping it together. Then a mother named Sonja Hart vanishes in her Highland Park neighborhood, and the case is all but ignored. Sparked by maternal fury,
Judith D Collins
Dec 21, 20251 min read
The Amateur
By: Chris Bohjalian ISBN: 9780385551298 Publisher: Doubleday Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs and predatory men, and suddenly a teenager is on trial in this spellbinding novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight
Judith D Collins
Dec 21, 20252 min read
Want to Know a Secret?
By: Freida McFadden ISBN: 9781464249600 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From #1 internationally bestselling author Freida McFadden! Everyone has secrets. Some are worse than others. Influencer and baking sensation April Masterson knows the secret to the perfect gooey brownies. Or how to make key lime squares that will melt in your mouth. But if you keep watching her offline, you may fin
Judith D Collins
Dec 20, 20252 min read
Come Back to the World
By: Catherine Ryan Hyde ISBN: 9781662522406 Publisher: Lake Union Publishing Publication Date: 05/05/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A single mother strives to understand the enigma of a reclusive novelist in a poignant novel about belonging, secret lives, and the desire to disappear by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde. Amelia Booker, a journalist and expert in American literature, receives a photograph leading to the
Judith D Collins
Dec 14, 20252 min read
A Long Time Gone
Series: Ben Packard #3 By: Joshua Moehling Narrator: Linda Jones Dreamscape Media ISBN: 978-1728279008 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 2/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) It's time to put the past to rest… Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched him walk out the back door of their grandparents' house and into the cold night. His brother was never seen again. Decades later, Deputy Packard finds himself with too m
Judith D Collins
Feb 9, 202513 min read
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