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Don't Look Away
By: Daniel Kenitz Narrators: Nancy Linari, Fred Sanders, Gary Tiedemann Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668208656 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of The Perfect Home comes a harrowing domestic crime thriller where a former defense attorney is forced out of retirement to defend her husband—now the prime suspect in the serial murder case terrorizing Florida’s Gulf Coast. Leslie W
Judith D Collins
Jul 75 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: 5 Stars (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 a
Judith D Collins
Jul 79 min read
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
By: Ben Reeves Narrator: Mike Frankland ISBN: 9781668216361 Publisher: Avid Reader Press Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP BOOKS OF 2026 "One of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while." —Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project For fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, an unforgettable and exquisitely moving novel about finding b
Judith D Collins
Jul 78 min read
Pretty Dead Things
By: Kelsey Cox Narrators: Narrated by Andrew Eiden; Brittany Pressley; Mia Wurgaft; Saskia Maarleveld; Stevi Incremona ISBN: 9781250446930 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars + (ALC) (ARC) JUL 2026-MUST-READ BOOKS Top Audiobooks of 2026 Secrets emerge as a Texas beauty pageant turns deadly in this rich and addictive novel with a jaw-dropping twist from psychological suspense author K
Judith D Collins
Jul 78 min read
The Safe Room
By: Lisa Unger Narrator: Vivienne Leheny ISBN: 978-1662537653 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Private investigator Rae Donovan’s relationship with her father is distant to the point of estrangement. But when she learns he’s dying in hospice, she drops everything to be at his side. By the time she arrives, he’s already too far gone to speak, and a doctor says his death is consistent with
Judith D Collins
Jul 64 min read
Last Man Standing
Orphan X #11 By: Gregg Hurwitz ISBN: 9781250424853 Publisher: Minotaur Books | St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 02/09/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Evan Smoak, a.k.a., Orphan X, grapples with his most dangerous mission yet, the latest in the bestselling series. Do you need my help? Those five words are the first thing anyone hears when they dial the encrypted line of the man known only as the Nowhere Man. For years Evan Smoak—once the g
Judith D Collins
Jul 52 min read
The Season of Sinking
By: Daphne Woolsoncroft Narrator: Natalie Van Sistine ISBN: 9781538770931 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 20265 MUST-READ BOOKS From a hit true crime podcaster turned novelist, a woman’s unsettling past creeps back into her consciousness as she returns to her hometown and begins to suspect the locals are hiding a terrible secret swirling around her mother's recent death. When Imogen Bly's mother su
Judith D Collins
Jul 55 min read
Great and Unfortunate Things
By: Jason Arday Narrator:Jason Arday ISBN: 9781668085578 Publisher: Simon & Schuster | 37 Ink Publication Date: 08/11/1026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Memoir With the power of Educated and the emotional sweep of When Breath Becomes Air, Great and Unfortunate Things is the inspiring, underdog story of how an autistic, non-verbal boy who society had all but given up on found his voice, literally and figuratively, became one of the youngest pr
Judith D Collins
Jul 53 min read
River Deep
Bitterfrost Thriller #2 By: Bryan Gruley ISBN: 978-1448316120 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL #LITLIFTMINIAUTHORCHAT TOP BOOKS OF 2026 Attorney Devyn Payne is left navigating thin ice as her small-town community fractures in the wake of a shocking crime in River Deep, the second in the Bitterfrost thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Bryan Gruley. “Viscer
Judith D Collins
Jul 314 min read
Before I Disappear
By: Cate Quinn ISBN: 9781464293405 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 11/10/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: tBR (ARC) NOV 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of The Clinic and The Bridesmaid comes a pulse pounding thriller following a criminologist who wakes in a remote motel with no memory of how she got there, or the people who claim they will protect her. Criminologist April Anderson wakes up in a remote motel with a new name, a new identity, a
Judith D Collins
Jul 32 min read
Dead Men Don't Play Fetch
Andy Carpenter #33 By: David Rosenfelt Narrator: Grover Gardner ISBN: 9781250427625 Publisher: Minotaur Books | St Martin's Press Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Bestselling author David Rosenfelt returns with Dead Men Don't Play Fetch as Andy Carpenter investigates a wealthy dog lover's unusual death. It’s defense lawyer Andy Carpenter’s dream to retire. That goal is once again thwarted when he gets a call from Lou
Judith D Collins
Jul 35 min read
The Next Lie
The Secrets of Chapel Roads #2 By: Camden Baird Narrators: Megan Tusing, Amy Hutchins, Andrew Eiden, Wayne Mitchell, Sarah Naughton, Kate Rudd, Rosanna Pilcher ISBN: 9781662530265 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/14/2025 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (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
Judith D Collins
Jul 35 min read
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
By: Liz Nugent Narrators: ISBN: 9781668204658 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 01/26/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS “I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!” —Freida McFadden, New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid From the internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond comes a twisted suspense novel about two sisters and the scandal that changes their lives forever. If my sister hadn’t been beaut
Judith D Collins
Jul 26 min read
The Delivery
A Novella By: Gregg Hurwitz Narrator: Scott Brick Audible Studios ISBN: 9781662539343 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series comes a tense novella, a psychological thriller about an AI companion that will do anything to serve—with terrifying consequences. Rebecca and Mark Higgins are doing their best to hold their family toget
Judith D Collins
Jul 25 min read
The Sky Beneath Her
By: Mary Ellen Taylor Narrator: Sarah Naughton ISBN: 978-1662530159 Publisher: Montlake Publication Date: 07/01/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS An unforgettable tale of lost love and buried truths, where the mysteries of a famous shipwreck hold the key to one woman’s future—and the truth of her mother’s final days. It’s been seven years since a tragic diving accident took her mother’s life, leaving Tula Cassidy with a crushing fear of the sea. T
Judith D Collins
Jul 26 min read
Wicked Wanted Widows
The Widows #3 By: Kimberly Belle, Vanessa Lillie; Cate Holahan Narrators: Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers ISBN: 9781464255502 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The Widows are back in this thrilling third installment of the Young Rich Widows series! This time, a Providence bank robbery-turned-kidnapping creates chaos,
Judith D Collins
Jul 23 min read
Redemptioin
Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row By: Lawrence Wright ISBN: 9780593805084 Publisher: Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf Publication Date: 10/20/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TbR (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, and retribution in America as only Lawrence Wright
Judith D Collins
Jul 22 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
Jul 12 min read
Getting Away with Murder
By: Shari Lapena Narrator: January LaVoy Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593832479 Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books Publication Date: 07/28/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The tenth thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door “Shari Lapena is far and away one of the best psychological thriller writers in the world. . . She is intensely bingeable.” —Lisa Jewell Jill and Ted adore their New York brownstone the way others ador
Judith D Collins
Jul 17 min read
The Second Chance Trailer Park
By: Katie Powner ISBN: 9798892425742 Publisher: Alcove Press Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From award-winning author Katie Powner comes a funny feel-good novel about a woman discovering her second chance at life. This charming and heartfelt story is perfect for readers who loved Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame. Fifty-two-year-old Meredith McGillicutty is not having a midlife crisis. She’s just ready for a change
Judith D Collins
Jul 16 min read
Bad Intentions
By: Iliana Xander ISBN: 9781464264283 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The next heart-pounding thriller from bestselling author Iliana Xander. Josie Boots messed up. Really badly. So she returns to her small hometown of Burnville to care for her ailing grandmother. It's been twenty-five years since an unspeakable crime rocked Burnville. Twenty-five years since her grandmother's trial
Judith D Collins
Jul 11 min read
Brain Damage
By: Freida McFadden Narrator: Megan Tusing ISBN: 978-1464290817 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 08/18/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Intruder! How can you survive when you can't remember who wants you dead? Dr. Charly McKenna had the perfect life: a thriving dermatology practice, a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, and a handsome husband who adored her. Until th
Judith D Collins
Jul 12 min read
The Neighbors Are Watching
By: Maggie Blum Thompson Narrator: Alex Picard Macmillan Audio ISBN: 9781250412553 Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books Publication Date: 06/30/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the "master of suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey) comes a scandalous, twisty thriller about obsession, betrayal, and the price of perfection Just outside Washington, DC, sits Eastbrook, Bethesda—a leafy suburb with top schools, pristine landscapes,
Judith D Collins
Jun 306 min read
Keep Them Close
By: David Ellis Narrators: Robin McAlpine, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Kelli Tager Penguin Audio ISBN: 9798217045877 Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Publication Date: 06/30/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the bestselling author of Look Closer comes a new domestic thriller about betrayal and murder inside one twisted family. “David Ellis is a master of layered, complex thrillers. A fast-paced, twisty, wild ride.” —Mary Kubica, New York Times b
Judith D Collins
Jun 295 min read
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