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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 22, 20257 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 21, 20257 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 21, 20255 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 21, 20256 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 20, 20255 min read
The Windsor Affair
By: Melanie Benjamin ISBN: 9780593497883 Publisher: Ballantine | Delacorte Press Publication Date: 06/02/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American social climber. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the cent
Judith D Collins
Oct 19, 20253 min read
Golden Girls on the Run
By: Judy Leigh Narrator: Phyllida Nash ISBN: 9781785132643 Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication Date: 12/06/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) DEC 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Father Ted meets Thelma and Louise in the BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud, relatable read from MILLION COPY bestseller Judy Leigh! Perfect for fans of Dawn French and Caroline James! Age is just a number. Trouble is a lifestyle. When octogenarian sisters-in-law Sadie and Bronagh find themselves at the centre
Judith D Collins
Oct 19, 20255 min read
The Second Story Book Shop
By: Denise Hunter Narrated by Kim Churchill ISBN: 9781400348725 Publisher: HCCP & HCF Audio | Thomas Nelson Fiction Publication Date: 10/07/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS She inherits the bookshop of her dreams . . . But she has to run it with the ex she vowed never to speak with again. Shelby Thatcher adores working in the charming small-town bookshop her grandmother opened years ago. Since high school she's helped Gram turn the shop into a co
Judith D Collins
Oct 19, 20253 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 19, 20254 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 19, 20254 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 17, 20256 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 14, 20257 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 14, 20255 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 14, 20253 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 13, 20256 min read
Dead Man Blues
By: S.D. House Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Publisher: Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9798349113185 Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 10/14/2025 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Two grisly murders. A disgraced former mayor. A tranquil town on the verge. This gripping historical crime novel set in the South pulls the past into the present, perfect for fans of Attica Locke and Wiley Cash. Dave Hendricks was once a respected man in Shady Grove, a tiny tow
Judith D Collins
Oct 13, 20254 min read
The Graceview Patient
By: Caitlin Starling Narrator: Xe Sands Dreamscape Media ISBN: 9781250340757 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 10/14/2025 Format: Hardcover and audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) (ALC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It
Judith D Collins
Oct 13, 20255 min read
The Next Lie
The Secrets of Chapel Roads #2 By: Camden Baird ISBN: 9781662530265 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/14/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the unputdownable sequel to The Last Morning, author Camden Baird delivers another harrowing tale of lies and deceit, where a marriage is put to the test while jealousy and revenge run wild. Few marriages survive what Sadie and Allen Wilson’s did. They were lucky—they had each other, an
Judith D Collins
Oct 13, 20252 min read
The Intruder
By: Freida McFadden Narrators: Joe Hempel, Patricia Santomasso, Tina Wolstencroft Dreamscape Media ISBN: 978-1464260919 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 10/072025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) OCT 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS Who knows what the storm will blow in… Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door is sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried
Judith D Collins
Oct 13, 20256 min read
Without Consent
A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime By: Sarah Weinman Narrator: Sarah Weinman HarperAudio ISBN: 978-0063279889 Publisher: Ecco Publication Date: 11/11/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) NOV 2025 MUST-READ BOOKS From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.
Judith D Collins
Oct 13, 20254 min read
Dead of Winter
By: Keri Beevis Narrator: Imogen Church ISBN: 9781835336038 Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication date: 10/10/2025 Format: e-book My...
Judith D Collins
Oct 10, 20257 min read
The Hitchhikers
By: Chevy Stevens Narrators: Lindsey Dorcus, Moniqua Plante Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250133656 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 10/072025 Format: Hardcover & audio My Rating: 5 Stars ++ (ARC) (ALC) TOP BOOKS OF 2025! WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD . . . CHEVY STEVENS has garnered acclaim from literary giants, including Stephen King who called THOSE GIRLS “incredibly scary and suspenseful” and Gillian Flynn who called STILL MISSING “utterly absorbing.” The a
Judith D Collins
Oct 7, 202510 min read
Photograph
By: Brian Freeman Narrator: January LaVoy ISBN: 9781665109765 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publication Date: 10/07/2025 Format:...
Judith D Collins
Oct 7, 20257 min read
My Beloved
By: Jan Karon A Mitford Novel #15 Narrator: Ryan Lee Dunlap ISBN: 9798217047178 Publisher: Putnam Publication Date: 10/07/2025 Format:...
Judith D Collins
Oct 7, 20256 min read
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