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The Talking Bone
By: Rene Denfeld Narrators: Allyson Ryan, James Shippy ISBN: 9780063396890 Publisher: Harper Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Rene Denfeld reminds us that storytelling remains one of the most powerful means we have of confronting our darkest human impulses and sometimes overcoming them.”—Washington Post From the revered bestselling author, a compulsive, page-turning thriller inspired by her real life work exonerating inno
Judith D Collins
Jul 206 min read
Across the Street
By: Christian Hakiza ISBN: 9798996749805 Publisher: Growth-Addicted Publishing Publication Date: 07/29/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BEST LITERARY DEBUT 2026 A debut novel for readers of Ann Patchett, Ann Napolitano, and William Kent Krueger. “What is broken is not finished. Restoration is always possible, when someone finds the courage to face what was left undone.” In the literary tradition of Tom Lake, Hello Beautiful, and Ordinary G
Judith D Collins
Jul 196 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) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Featured SEP #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats 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 captivating thrille
Judith D Collins
Jul 196 min read
They Say A Girl Died Here
ISBN: By: Sarah Pinborough Narrator:Saskia Maarleveld ISBN: 9781250444714 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes, a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about two murdered girls, a town with dark secrets, and a race to break a deadly cycle Anna Maybourne never imagined herself living in a place like Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of d
Judith D Collins
Jul 186 min read
The Aunt
By: Courtney Psak Narrator: Lauryn Allman ISBN: 978-1399748193 Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication Date: 09/22/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS SEP FEATURED #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats You think you know your sister? Think again... The day that Amy gets the call, her whole world falls apart. Her younger sister Lexi has been killed in a tragic boating accident, along with her husband. Despite being estranged for the last ten years, Am
Judith D Collins
Jul 175 min read
Mom Brain
By: Nicole Hackett Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld ISBN: 9781400350353 Publisher: Harper Muse Audiobooks Publication Date: 04/21/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Hackett’s skillful plotting and character work will keep readers hooked…” - Publishers Weekly Can a luxury resort transform her life by giving her back control? Georgia Evans thinks it sounds too good to be true. Turns out her motherly intuition isn't wrong . . . In the vein of Liane
Judith D Collins
Jul 176 min read
The Last To Drown
By: Noelle W. Ihli Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 979-8992716139 Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 07/16/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Five days. Twenty strangers. No way out. The rafting trip was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. But Kaia’s starting to think she made a mistake. Because ever since the whispers about Camas Creek began, all she feels is dread. Seven years earlier, a guide murdered a group of rafters o
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Jul 165 min read
In Wonderland
By: Joyce Maynard Narrator: Joyce Maynard Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9781662540899 Publisher: LIttle A Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 In one golden summer, Frances trades her working-class world for an elite Maine lakeside estate—where privilege and betrayal turn into a deadly game. Frances believes she’s found a ticket to paradise when a wealthy couple hires her for the summer as their mother’s he
Judith D Collins
Jul 157 min read
Home for the Homicides
The Holly & Mark Mystery Series By: Elle Cosimano & Hannah Morrissey ISBN: 9781250413352 Publisher: Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publcation Date: 10/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS 'Tis the season . . . for murder. A "Hallmark movie with a side of murder," "The festive, quirky love child of a holiday whodunit and a steamy romance.” —Sara Raasch When Special Agents Holly Frost and Mark Shepherd report to the idyllic town of Christ
Judith D Collins
Jul 158 min read
Hot Girl Murder Club
By: Ashley Winstead Narrator: Brittany Pressley Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250401212 Publisher: Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP AUDIOBOOKS OF 2026 From national bestselling author Ashley Winstead comes a buzzy, bloody new thriller about success, sisterhood, and demanding justice…by any means necessary. What’s a girl got to do to get some fame, a few million record sales, and justice
Judith D Collins
Jul 157 min read
Not A Word
By: Linwood Barclay Narrators: Nan McNamara, Johnathan McClain ISBN: 9780063276383 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the latest chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a man’s world is upended after he stumbles upon a grisly crime scene in the family home. Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in
Judith D Collins
Jul 152 min read
Pretty As A Peach
By: Grace Helena Walz Narrators: Brittany Goodwin, Natalie Duke Thomas Nelson ISBN: 9781400352852 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: 07/14/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A preschool teacher and her retiree neighbor team up to take on a suspicious multi-level marketing scheme that has a vicelike grip on the women in their suburban Southern community. Delilah Thomas, beloved preschool teacher to the twos class, has always been
Judith D Collins
Jul 146 min read
The Munich Affair
By: James Patterson & David Ellis ISBN: 9780316404099 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: Format: Other My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "The Munich Affair is a master class in tension and a perfect historical thriller.” —Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls “This World War II-era thriller feels startlingly modern and essential. As you watch a detective, a journalist, a resistance leader, and a professo
Judith D Collins
Jul 132 min read
The Shadow Friends
Martini Club #3 By: Tess Gerritsen Narrator: Hillary Huber ISBN: 978-1662533419 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen comes a harrowing and emotional thriller where ghosts of the Cold War return with a vengeance—and cannot be outrun. When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in
Judith D Collins
Jul 132 min read
SAme River Twice
By: Wiley Cash ISBN: 9780063210684 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 04/06/2027 Format: Other My Rating:TBR (ARC) APR 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS “It’s rare to encounter a book that’s both thrilling and thoughtful, but that is Wiley Cash’s specialty. Same River Twice is the kind of gripping read you stay up too late with. But ultimately it’s so much more, a perceptive and quite moving novel about family, fate, and how history isn’t an abstract idea, but the force that shap
Judith D Collins
Jul 133 min read
The Country Road Murders
By: James Patterson and Mike Lupica Narrator: Tom Pelphrey ISBN: 9780316599870 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication Date: 07/13/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is suddenly over in this action-packed sports thriller powered by loyalty, competition, and family. Humbled, but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where
Judith D Collins
Jul 135 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: Other My Rating: TBR 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, in
Judith D Collins
Jul 122 min read
The Golden Child
By: Lucinda Berry ISBN: 9781464292019 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 01/12/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS One lie to save her future. One decision to destroy his. Ava and Bentley are Irish twins—eleven months apart, inseparable since birth. Ava is the golden girl: disciplined, driven, bound for success. Bentley is the screwup: reckless, restless, always one bad choice away from disaster. Until the night Ava makes a mista
Judith D Collins
Jul 122 min read
Patient 7
By: Sabrina Wade Narrators: Luke Persiani, Patricia Santomasso ISBN: 9798349173264 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: Format: Audio My Rating: TBR (ALC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A psychiatric patient who predicts murders—down to the details. Dr. Rachel Hadley has barely absorbed the shock of her ex-husband, psychiatrist Dr. Colton Hadley, vanishing when County Detective Lane Archer uncovers something Colton left behind: a set of taped interviews no one was suppos
Judith D Collins
Jul 112 min read
Bad Honeymoon
By: Jessie Garcia ISBN: 9781250429391 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 01/19/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS With Jessie Garcia's signature multi-POV, rapid-fire style that will keep you on your toes until the last page, Bad Honeymoon is the next twisty thriller from the author of THE BUSINESS TRIP. In search of a ratings hit, TV reporter Becca Larson flies to Florida to cover what should be a simple story: a newlywed couple’s h
Judith D Collins
Jul 112 min read
Take Back The Night
By: Kaira Rouda, Kimberly Belle, Heather Gudenkauf ISBN: 978-0778332992 Publisher: Park Row Publication Date: 01/12/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Three friends. One unfinished story. A killer back from the depths to write his own ending—the bestselling authors and cohosts of the Killer Author Club join forces in this mind-bending thriller. Fifteen years ago, a group of college girls known as the “Dead Air Five” exposed a campus predator on live r
Judith D Collins
Jul 92 min read
Darling Your Next
By: Marlee Bush ISBN: 9781464264641 Publisher:Sourcebooks | Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 01/05/2027 Format: Paperback My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Tight-paced and twisted—this is not one to miss." — Mia Sheridan, New York Times bestselling author “The sweetest blend of Freida McFadden and Gillian Flynn...Darling, You’re Next is utterly bingeable.” — Mallory Arnold, USA Today bestselling author of Cross My Heart I Hope You Die From the author of When S
Judith D Collins
Jul 93 min read
I'm Here To Help
By: Victoria Helen Stone ISBN: 9781662544309 Publisher: Lake Union Publication Date: 10/27/206 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (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 mother, a school volunteer, a faithful friend, and a tr
Judith D Collins
Jul 82 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: 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’t m
Judith D Collins
Jul 82 min read
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