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The May House
By: Jillian Cantor Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668091159 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 05/12/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Three adult sisters inherit a beach house from their grandmother on the condition they return every May to spend one week together, earthing family secrets, unrequited love, and the deep bonds of sisterhood in this shimmering new novel from the USA TODAY bestselling au
Judith D Collins
Apr 183 min read
A Murder Most Camp
By: Nicolas DiDomizio Narrator: Mark Sanderlin Sourcebooks ISBN: 9781464250064 Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The Guncle meets Every Time I Go On Vacation Someone Dies in this fun, twisty mystery following a spoiled nepo baby forced to work at a struggling summer camp who stumbles into a real-life murder mystery he has no choice but to solve. Rustic cabins. Lakefront bonfires. A pa
Judith D Collins
Apr 186 min read
Paper Ghosts
By: Sarah Addison Allen ISBN: 9781250283429 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 09/01/0206 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (AR) 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 stood as a monument to influence and mystery in a sma
Judith D Collins
Apr 182 min read
The Anniversary
By: Alex Finlay Narrators: Ari Fliakos, Brittany Pressley Macmillan Audio ISBN: 978-1250360755 Publisher: Minotuar Books Publication Date: 05/12/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the bestselling author of Parents Weekend, comes one of the most anticipated thrillers of the year. Every Year He Comes For Them. On one fateful night in 1992, the lives of two seventeen-year-olds are changed and intertwined forever. Quinn Riley, a boy f
Judith D Collins
Apr 183 min read
The Place Between Our Pains
A Memoir of What Joy Can Survive By: K. J. Ramsey Narrator: K.J. Ramsey ISBN: 9780593727393 Publisher: Convergent | Convergent Books Publication Date: 05/19/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. After over a decade of fighting chronic illness, trauma therapist and beloved a
Judith D Collins
Apr 174 min read
How To Get Away With Murder
By: Rebecca Philipson Narrators: Michael Geary; Tamsin Kennard Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250434586 Publisher: Minotaur Books Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "If you picked up this book because you truly want to get away with murder, you will not be disappointed. Simply turn the page and we'll get started." This fresh debut thriller finds a Scotland Yard detective trying to find the author of a self-help book that p
Judith D Collins
Apr 176 min read
The Only One Who Knows
By: Lisa M. Matlin Narrator: Nikki Thomas ISBN: 9780593599983 Publisher: Ballantine | Bantam Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A disgraced TV news reporter returns to her violent hometown to investigate a series of deadly shark attacks in this nail-biting suspense novel from the author of The Stranger Upstairs. “A gothic coastal noir about generational violence and the cyclical nature of predation, The Only One Who
Judith D Collins
Apr 175 min read
The Kindness of Strangers
By: Emma Garman Narrator: Olivia Dowd Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668222546 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 05/12/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A wildly entertaining debut and homage to the classic murder mystery set in post-WWII London where a stranger’s arrival at a boarding house sets a deadly chain of events in motion—perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Agatha Christie, and Richard Osman. London, 1953. Jimmy Sullivan l
Judith D Collins
Apr 174 min read
Lake Effect
By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Narrator: Marin Ireland ISBN: 9780063377684 Publisher: Ecco Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. It’s 1977 and an air of restlessness has settled on the residents of Cambridge Road in Rochester, Ne
Judith D Collins
Apr 156 min read
You'll Be Sorry
By: Lisa Gardner ISBN: 9781538765142 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 08/11/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From a master storyteller comes a “chilling, gripping” standalone (Lisa Jewell): A newlywed couple each with their own secrets. An abandoned lodge with a horrific decades-old mystery. And a small mountain town where everyone believes they know their neighbors…except they don’t. For Raquel and Theo Collins, it appeared to b
Judith D Collins
Apr 153 min read
The Delivery
A Mercury Carter Thriller #2 By: Andrew Welsh-Huggins Narrator: Peter Berkrot ISBN: 9781696622363 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Publication Date: 03/24/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Merc Carter is not your typical deliveryman. A former postal inspector, he specializes in moving sensitive or dangerous packages—of all sorts—from point A to B. And sometimes he needs his gun to do so. Carter's current mission leads him to Providence, Rhode Is
Judith D Collins
Apr 156 min read
The One Day You Were My Husband
By: Rosie Walsh Narrator: Emilia Fox Penguin Audio ISBN: 9798217060450 Publisher: Viking Penguin Pamela Dorman Books Publication Date: 05/19/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times–bestselling author of Ghosted and The Love of My Life comes an unmissable emotional thriller: an up-all-night, page-turning love story with a very dark secret at its heart. Carrie and Johan marry on a beach in Thailand only months into their
Judith D Collins
Apr 155 min read
Handle With Care
By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Narrator: Jane Oppenheimer ISBN: 978-1400345069 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Fiction Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Apr featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat Three women walk into a post office. No, this isn't the beginning of a joke. It's the beginning of a hostage situation. On an ordinary spring afternoon in a small-town post office, a domestic dispute spirals out of control. The husband
Judith D Collins
Apr 1413 min read
The Divorce
By: Freida McFadden Narrators: January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland Dreamscape Media ISBN: 978-1464249631 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 05/26/2026 Format: Audio : My Rating: TBR MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS What is a happily ever after really worth? Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family . . . Then—he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains
Judith D Collins
Apr 142 min read
Too Close to Home
By: Seraphina Nova Glass Narrators: Brittany Pressley, Rebecca Lowman, Karissa Vacker Harlequin Audio ISBN: 978-0778306436 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The two-time Edgar Award–nominated author of ON A QUIET STREET and THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10, Seraphina Nova Glass, is back with TOO CLOSE TO HOME Nothing in this idyllic community is quite what it seems… Those lucky enough to live in the elite la
Judith D Collins
Apr 145 min read
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
By: Elizabeth Arnott Narrators: Saskia Maarleveld, Karissa Vacker Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593952993 Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: 03/03/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY MARIE CLAIRE AND A BEST BOOK FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2026 BY GLAMOUR A remarkable trio whose lives have been cracked wide open by their husbands’ crimes unite to catch a serial killer in this dazzlingly captivating novel. Beverley,
Judith D Collins
Apr 146 min read
Hope Rises
Walter Nash #2 By: David Baldacci Narrators: MacLeod Andrews, Will Collyer, Shiromi Arserio, Christine Lakin, Larry Herron, Tim Lounibos ISBN: 978-1538758021 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 04/14/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) (ALC) 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
Judith D Collins
Apr 146 min read
When They Find Me
By: Carter Wilson ISBN: 9781464272684 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Some secrets don't fade. They hunt. Expanse, Colorado. Population 313. A town so remote it barely exists on a map—the perfect hiding place for Annie Wolfe and her daughter, Coral. Their cabin is nearly off the grid, and Annie has done everything to keep them safe. Everything. But she knows the people hunting her don't
Judith D Collins
Apr 133 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: TBR (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 accu
Judith D Collins
Apr 132 min read
You First
A Joe Goldberg Prequel By: Caroline Kepnes ISBN: 9780399591464 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 06/09/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “The most distinctive voice in thrillers is back.”—Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast How did Joe Goldberg become Joe Goldberg? What led to his first love . . . first obsession . . . first kill? Find out in the highly anticipated prequel to New York
Judith D Collins
Apr 133 min read
This Weekend Doesn't End Well for Anyone
Vacation Mysteries #3 By Catherine Mack Narrated by Elizabeth Evans ISBN: 9781250445650 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The third in the witty and captivating series following bestselling author Eleanor Dash, who once again has to swap her sun hat for her detective hat, when a body is found at a murder mystery writing conference in the Bahamas. "[Narrator] Elizabeth Evans masterfully voice
Judith D Collins
Apr 136 min read
Beach Thriller
By: Jamie Day Narrators: Emily Shaffer, Jane Oppenheimer, Jennifer Pickens, Megan Tusing Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250358233 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 06/09/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The next riveting summer suspense by the author of THE BLOCK PARTY, ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY, and THE LAKE ESCAPE Jamie Day. It's been nearly twenty years since Holly last visited the charming town of Beauport, Massachusetts, and it re
Judith D Collins
Apr 133 min read
The Fake Wife
By: Emily Shiner ISBN: 9781805509127 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 05/11/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BLOG TOUR STOP As I watch Darren bury his wife’s body in the backyard, I know I need to act fast. I’m going to be her replacement. He’ll never know what’s coming… The next day, I smile down at Darren in bed next to me. When he wakes up, I’m going to tell him I’m his new wife. I’ll keep this beautiful house clean and host the
Judith D Collins
Apr 125 min read
The Burning Side
By: Sarah Damoff Narrators: Stacy Gonzalez, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Jackie Sanders Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668085011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 5/19/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When Ap
Judith D Collins
Apr 122 min read
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