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Desperate Spies
By: Mark De Castrique Secret Lives #3 ISBN: 9781448316700 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Badass 75-year-old retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater is back—stalking mobsters, dodging bullets, and pulling off Bond-worthy moves as she tracks down missing state secrets in this fun and pacy new installment in the Secret Lives mystery series “Ethel’s adventures will appeal to fans of Richard
Judith D Collins
2 days ago6 min read
The Christmas Stranger
By: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans ISBN: 9781668014905 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Christmas classic The Christmas Box and the #1 Netflix movie The Noel Diary comes a powerful and thought-provoking holiday story about love, loss, and the mysterious workings of heaven. Sometimes the universe sends us exactly who we need
Judith D Collins
2 days ago6 min read
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek #1 By: Kim MIchele Richardson Narrator: Katie Schorr Blackstone Audio ISBN: 978-1464246524 Publisher: Sourebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback Deluxe Collectors Limited Edition My Rating: 5 Stars + NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS THE LIMITED EDITION COLLECTOR'S EDITION WITH DESIGNED EDGES! The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cu
Judith D Collins
2 days ago14 min read
Strangers In The Car
By: C.M. Ewan Narrator: Olivia Mace ISBN: 9781538766286 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS “As wild and terrifying a ride as any thriller reader could want,” a heart-pounding thriller from the acclaimed author of The House Hunt and Safe House (Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author). Abi and Ben are driving home down foggy country roads, arguing about having had to cut short
Judith D Collins
2 days ago4 min read
The Lady on Esplanade
By: Karen White Narrator: Sophie Amoss Penguin Audio Royal Street Series #3 ISBN: 9780593549490 Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS People and secrets from the past threaten to disrupt Nola Trenholm’s new life in New Orleans in the third novel of the Royal Street series by New York Times bestselling author Karen White. Nola is ready to focus on starting over in the Big Easy. She wants to get back to w
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
The Bridesmaid
By: Cate Quinn Narrator: Stephanie Cannon Tantor Media ISBN: 9781464245701 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of The Clinic comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a society wedding turned deadly, for fans of The Unwedding. The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the decade. There's just one hitch. You might not make it out alive. When a celebrit
Judith D Collins
3 days ago5 min read
Where He Left Me
By: Nicole Baart Narrator: Amanda Dolan Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668066171 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From Nicole Baart, the bestselling author of Everything We Didn’t Say, comes a twisty, atmospheric novel about a newlywed whose husband disappears, leaving her isolated in Washington State’s North Cascades. “In every world, I’d find you.” Sadie Sheridan’s new husband, Felix, a
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
Forget You Saw Her
Series: Ask for Andrea #.5 By: Noelle W. Ihli Narrators: Andi Arndt, Carlotta Brentan, Brittany Pressley Simon Maverick ISBN: 9798992716108 Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS NOV Featured QA #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat She lost her daughter once. Now, she’ll go to hell and back to find her. Seventeen years ago, Sabina made the most difficult decision of her life: giving her newborn daughter, Andre
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
The Perfect Hosts
By: Heather Gudenkauf Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Xe Sands Harlequin Audio ISBN: 978-0778305668 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 11/04/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS A couple’s gender reveal party turns deadly and everyone is a suspect in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest Is it a boy or a girl? They would die to know… Cordelia and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their c
Judith D Collins
3 days ago7 min read
Trust No ONe
By: Caleb Crowe ISBN: 9781837566464 Publisher: Inkubator Books Publication Date: 11/02/2025 Format: 5 Stars NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS He knows her weaknesses… And just how to use them. Grace Harper spends her days finding dream homes for strangers – but her office is a nightmare she can’t escape. Bullied by younger colleagues, and on a final warning from her boss, she hates her work, but desperately needs to keep earning so she can save enough to escape to university. So when
Judith D Collins
4 days ago5 min read
His Other Woman
By: Valerie Keogh Narrator: Rose Robinson ISBN: 9781836178491 Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication Date: 11/03/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The BRAND NEW utterly heart-pounding thriller from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING author of The Wives, a must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell! Fiona Carlton has never needed a man to make her life complete. Until she meets charming, handsome, and sophisticated Richard. She is consumed, fi
Judith D Collins
5 days ago4 min read
What She Saw
By: Mary Burton Narrators: Samara Naeymi, James Anderson Foster, Andrew Eiden, Patrick Lawlor Brilliance Audio ISBN: 978-1662516047 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 11/01/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS An investigative reporter returns to the scene of a decades-old crime to put her own unsettled past to rest in this chilling suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton. Cold case reporter Sloane Grayson has come t
Judith D Collins
6 days ago5 min read
Watch Us Fall
By: Christina Kovac Narrators: Rebekkah Ross, James Fouhey ISBN: 9781501141720 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 12/02/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) DEC 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS DEC Featured QA #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat “A stunning work of suspense that’s impossible to put down. Christina Kovac masterfully combines a twisty missing person mystery, a heartbreaking love story, and an insightful exploration of the nature of obsession and trauma. I loved this novel.” —
Judith D Collins
7 days ago6 min read
6:40 to Montreal
By: Eva Jurczyk Narrator: Allyson Morgan Recorded Books ISBN: 9781728295725 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 10/28/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS OCT Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat #CoverReveal No WiFi, no distractions. No way out… Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift—a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her
Judith D Collins
Oct 288 min read
Ask for Andrea
Ask for Andrea #1 By: Noelle West Ihli Narrator: Allison Delaney Simon Maverick ISBN: 9781496758002 Publisher: Kensington Books Publication Date: 10/28/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS In a hauntingly unique, compulsively readable, engrossingly intense psychological thriller for readers of Freida McFadden, Jason Rekulak, Clémence Michallon, Robyn Harding, and The Lovely Bones, three women murdered by the same man unite in the afterlife to f
Judith D Collins
Oct 275 min read
Sonora
By: Jenni L. Walsh Narrator: Piper Goodeve ISBN: 9781400246779 Publisher: HarperCollins Focus | Harper Muse Publication Date: 10/28/2025 Format: Other & audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS "This one's for the horse girls, the girls who fell in love with Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken and hoped someday they'd be like the fearless, determined, strong Sonora Carver whose love and belief in her horses made her an icon." --Joy Callaway, international bestse
Judith D Collins
Oct 278 min read
My Husband Next Door
By: K. L. Slater ISBN: 9781835252741 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 10/28/2025 Format: e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS The perfect way for us to live. The perfect way for him to hide… My husband Matt and I are an ordinary married couple in every way but one. At the end of each day, we return to our own homes and our own spaces. Some people think this arrangement is odd, but for us it’s perfect. But beyond the fairy lights I string at my wind
Judith D Collins
Oct 264 min read
The Mad Wife
By: Meagan Church Narrator: Susan Bennett Recorded Books ISBN: 978-1464252556 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 09/30/2025 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS SEP FEATURED #AuthorElevatorSeries #TopBooksof2025 With odes of The Bell Jar comes a searing historical suspense following a 1950s housewife who, when a mysterious new wife moves across the way, begins to unearth dark secrets about her neighborhood and her own mind. In
Judith D Collins
Oct 2615 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
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
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
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