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I'm Here To Help
By: Victoria Helen Stone Narrator: Paige Reisenfeld Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662544309 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 10/27/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (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 mothe
Judith D Collins
Sep 92 min read
Friends and Family
By: Natalie Baszile Narrator: Karen Murray Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593492161 Publisher: Viking/Pameal Dorman Publication Date: 10/06/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of Queen Sugar, a piercing examination of friendship and loyalty as two best friends find themselves at odds over their beliefs on race, identity and allyship, especially when it comes to their teenage children Babs and Nora became friends thanks to their kids.
Judith D Collins
Sep 65 min read
Split Second: Thirty-Two Switcheroo
Seephanie Plum #32 By: Janet Evanovich ISBN: 9781668069707 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Stephanie Plum’s life is never boring, not even for a split second, in the adrenaline-fueled new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. In a now-or-never moment, Stephanie Plum made the decision of a lifetime. But some lifetimes are shorter than others and Stephanie will be lucky if
Judith D Collins
Sep 62 min read
Bulldog
By: James Patterson and Mike Lupica ISBN: 9780316570053 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: 01/11/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS From #1 New York Times bestselling co-authors James Patterson and Mike Lupica, an investigative journalist goes searching for her next blockbuster case—then wishes she hadn't found ... The Traveler. My name is Gracie Bronte. I’m an investigative journalist in New York City. My nickname is “Bulldog.”
Judith D Collins
Sep 61 min read
The Bluff
By: Wade Rouse Narrators: Dan John Miller, Andrew Gibson, Alexandra Hunter, Dawn Harvey, Arthur Morey, Kate Marcin, Petrea Burchard, Michael Crouch, Andrew Eiden, Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 9780778306221 Publisher: MIRA Publication Date: 10/13/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Succession meets The Family Stone in bestselling author Wade Rouse’s humorous and sharply observant look at a family teetering on the edge of merry mayhem. The Cha
Judith D Collins
Sep 43 min read
The Survivor's Guild
By: Gabriella Saab Narrators: Saskia Maarleveld, Gail Shalan ISBN: 9781400351374 Publisher:Harper Muse Harper Muse Audiobooks Publication Date: 09/01/2026 Format: Audio & e-book : My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In 1912 aboard the RMS Titanic, Nabiha “Bea” Nohra is traveling to America to find work, eager to earn the funds necessary to afford passage for the family she left in Lebanon. On the same ship, heiress Marguerite Ashby sails home to celebra
Judith D Collins
Sep 35 min read
The Making of A Mad Woman
By: Kristy Combron ISBN: 9781400345298 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 02/072027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS She built an advertising empire on Madison Avenue. Then she walked away . . . Manhattan, 1962. Josephine "Jo" Carmichael is the fashion world's reigning It Girl on the runways of Europe until she's forced back to New York for her estranged father's funeral. When she discovers his prestigious Madison Avenue ad agency is drown
Judith D Collins
Sep 32 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) (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Featured SEP #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats #MacAudio2026 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
Judith D Collins
Sep 315 min read
Look What The Cat Dragged In
By: Jason Rekulak Narrator: Stephanie Németh-Parker ISBN: 9781250451477 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 10/13/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Pictures and The Last One at the Wedding comes a new supernatural thriller about a young woman pet-sitting a cat with a mysterious secret. Meet Penny Padgett, a twenty-seven-year-old cartoonist in Philadelphia who agrees to pet-sit a
Judith D Collins
Sep 32 min read
Paper Ghosts
By: Sarah Addison Allen Narrator: Marin Ireland ISBN: 9781250283429 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 09/01/0206 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Other Birds hailed as “whimsical, wise, and delightfully mysterious.” (Real Simple) Every family has its secrets...The Wester women live inside theirs. For generations, Wester House has st
Judith D Collins
Sep 37 min read
The Mothers
By: Natalie Banks ISBN: 9798904370640 Publisher: Crooked Lane Publication Date: Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS A gripping debut in which a woman struggles to adapt to motherhood—but before she can, her baby vanishes—perfect for fans of Ashley Audrain’s Good Morning America pick The Push. Maggie Fergason has dreamed of having a family of her own her whole life. But in the first few weeks after her daughter Rosie’s birth, that dream becomes a waking
Judith D Collins
Sep 22 min read
The Witch
By: Freida McFadden Narrators: Saskia Maarleveld, Marin Ireland Dreamscape Media ISBN: 978-1464249648 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 10/06/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A brand-new, haunting thriller from Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid! Some secrets don't die―they wait. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling sevente
Judith D Collins
Sep 22 min read
The House Swap
By: Keri Beevis Narrator: Imogen Church ISBN: 9781835336236 Publisher: Boldwood Books Publication Date: 09/012026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS What began with trust, ends with betrayal and danger… I needed to escape. Somewhere quiet. Somewhere safe. So I decide to swap homes with Tom, a man I’ve grown close to, and fly to his villa in Crete with my best friend Keira. Winter sun. Empty beaches. Silence. At last, I can breathe. At first, it
Judith D Collins
Sep 15 min read
Hillbilly Hypocrisy
JD Vance and the Dark Future of MAGA Politics By: Nathan J. Robinson ISBN: 9781250438546 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 02/09/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS An eye-opening exploration of the man at the center of a movement poised to reshape the fabric of American society. JD Vance has rapidly risen to power and become the most likely individual to succeed Donald Trump as leader of the MAGA movement. Yet his core politica
Judith D Collins
Sep 12 min read
The Damage Man
An Orphan X Short Story By: Gregg Hurwitz Narrator: Scott Brick ISBN: 9781250474377 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 09/01/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Once the U.S. government’s deadliest off-the-books assassin, Evan Smoak was known only as Orphan X. He broke free from the Program, vanished, and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man — the last hope for those with nowhere else to turn. This program is read by AudioFile Gol
Judith D Collins
Sep 14 min read
Redemption
Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row By: Lawrence Wright Narrator: Lawrence Wright Random House Audio ISBN: 9780593805084 Publisher: Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf Publication Date: 10/20/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A powerful and startling account of the unsparing connection between a convent of cloistered nuns and the condemned women on Texas’s death row, exploring questions around crime and punishment, faith, an
Judith D Collins
Sep 12 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: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars 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
Judith D Collins
Aug 305 min read
Murder on Charity Lane
A Marigold Cottages Mystery #2 By: Jo Nichols Narrators: Jim Meskimen, Meg Price ISBN: 9781250356574 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 08/18/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Months after the shocking murders at Marigold Cottages, eccentric landlady Mrs. B finds the peace and quiet a little too peaceful. That’s why she invites her young friend CJ Moore to move into a now-vacant cottage: CJ is a suspect in the death of her employer
Judith D Collins
Aug 304 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: 4.5 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’
Judith D Collins
Aug 305 min read
The Paris Files
By: Eva Jurczyk Narrators: Sarah Reny, Helen Laser, Nick Trengove, Louisa Zhu, Mark Bramhall, Xavier Casals, Mozhan Navabi, Suzanne Toren, Steve West, Lynnette R. Freeman Penguin Audio ISBN: 9798217060641 Publisher: Viking | Pamela Dorman Publication Date: 10/06/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Staggeringly good . . . Eva Jurczyk is a dazzling talent, and her dark and beguiling Paris is unforgettable.” —Rosie Walsh A sophisticated, charact
Judith D Collins
Aug 303 min read
Trust No One
By: Mary Burton Narrators: Megan Tusing, Eric G. Dove, Amy Landon Brilliance Audiio ISBN: 9781662530333 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 10/01/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A woman’s unexpected return to her isolated family estate puts her in a killer’s path in this shocking suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton. After seventeen years away, public defender Raine Hale returns to her family’s crumbling Vi
Judith D Collins
Aug 282 min read
The Queen of Roses
By: Julia Kelly Narrators: Petrea Burchard, Marisa Calin Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668032756 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date:10/20/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Spanning the ballrooms of Pasadena and the sunlit gardens of Altadena, a new novel of love and sacrifice from the internationally bestselling author of The Light Over London and The Last Garden in England. 1960: Frustrated reporter Theresa Johnson’s life changes when
Judith D Collins
Aug 282 min read
Saving Noah
By: Lucinda Berry Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie ISBN: 9781464292132 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 09/08/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. But what if it shouldn't be? Noah is the boy everyone admires—an honor student, a champion swimmer, a hometown success story. Until he confesses to sexually abusing young girls during swim practice. In a single moment, his future evapo
Judith D Collins
Aug 274 min read
Mercy's Child
By: Richard Paul Evans Narrator: Richard Paul Evans Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN:9781668264218 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 10/20/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans comes an emotionally rich work of historical fiction inspired by the true story of Etta Wheeler, a woman whose courage and compassion helped spark a movement that forever changed a country. In 1874, Etta Whe
Judith D Collins
Aug 272 min read
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