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Wildwood
By: Amy Pease Narrators: Chris Henry Coffey, Amanda Dolan Simon & Schuster Audio Northwoods #2 ISBN: 9781668078723 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 01/06/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the acclaimed author of the “riveting debut” (People) Northwoods, a mother-son law enforcement team confront buried secrets in their small town as they work to expose a conspiracy that goes far beyond the tight-knit community. Deputy Sherif

Judith D Collins
Jan 610 min read


The Charmed Library
By: Jennifer Moorman Narrator: Kathleen McInerney Harper Muse ISBN: 9781400343669 Publisher: HarperMuse Publication Date: 01/06/2026 Format: Audio and e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS With her signature blend of magical and heartfelt storytelling, USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Moorman returns with The Charmed Library, a love letter to libraries, favorite childhood stories, and readers who have fallen for fictional heroes. Like many other public

Judith D Collins
Jan 58 min read


The First Time I Saw Him
By: Laura Dave Narrators: Rebecca Lowman, Tessa Albertson, Colin Donnell, CJ Wilson Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 978-1668002964 Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 01/06/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall's pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. How far would you go for a second chance? Five ye

Judith D Collins
Jan 45 min read


If A Face Could Kill
A Brigid Quinn Thriller #5 By: Becky Masterman ISBN: 9781448317899 Publisher: Severn House Publication Date: 03/03/206 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "Chilling, smart . . . and what a voice"—Gillian Flynn The hunt for a neighbor’s killer . . . reveals chilling secrets close to home. Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn hasn’t forgiven herself for the testimony that led to young mother Nicole Gleason being convicted for the manslaughter of her abusive hu

Judith D Collins
Jan 42 min read


Pinky Swear
By: Danielle Girard Narrators: Amanda Dolan, Rebekkah Ross Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668096529 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 02/24/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From Danielle Girard, the USA TODAY bestselling author who “effortlessly ratchets up the tension” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), comes a pulse-pounding thriller about a young woman whose surrogate disappears just days before the baby’s due d

Judith D Collins
Jan 43 min read


Keeper of Lost Children
By: Sadequa Johnson Narrators: Sadeqa Johnson, Ariel Blake, Karen Chilton, Adam Lazarre-White Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668069912 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 02/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way. Lost in the streets and smoldering rubb

Judith D Collins
Jan 43 min read


The First Widows
By: S.E. Reed ISBN: 9781837001866 Publisher: Storm Publishing Publication Date: 03/23/2026 Format: e-bok My Rating: TBR (AR) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Some people will do anything for family. Even kill for it… When Sophia, a wealthy woman far from home, meets Rebecca, a struggling nurse and mother, at a paint-and-sip class in New York, their friendship unfolds just as you might expect. The lonely outsider finds her place. The overwhelmed mother gets the help she desperately n

Judith D Collins
Jan 31 min read


The Last Father-Daughter Dance
A Short Story By: Lisa Wingate Narrator: Sarah Naughton ISBN: 978-1662537134 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 01/01/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS For a father and daughter, it’s a journey through the four seasons in a poignant short story about memories and everlasting love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate. Olympic silver medalist Kalista Brooks has built a successful life in California, complete with

Judith D Collins
Jan 35 min read


The Women In White
By: Sarah Pekkanen ISBN: 9781250349552 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Publication Date: 08/04/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Extrasensory perception. The Gift. A Sixth Sense. Or something else…. In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough, the women mysteriously vanished and the program was erased from his

Judith D Collins
Jan 32 min read


The Last To Drown
By: Noelle W. Ihli ASIN: B0GJGBD3GC Publisher: Dynamite Books Publication Date: 07/16/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: TBR 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 on this same isolated stretch of water.

Judith D Collins
Jan 31 min read


What Boys Learn
By: Andromeda Romano-Lax Narrators: Eva Kaminsky; Michael Crouch ISBN: 9798897564262 Publisher: RB Media | Recorded Books SoHo Crime Publication Date: 01/06/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 5 Stars (ALC) JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the author of The Deepest Lake comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense that unravels a mother’s worst fear—that her son may have played a part in the murders of two teenage girls in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Over one terrible weekend, two

Judith D Collins
Jan 28 min read


The Pie & Mash Detective Agency
By: J.D. Brinkworth ISBN: 9798217187256 Publisher: Berkley Publication Date: 03/10/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Oddball couple Jane and Simon take a private detective class and must use their (admittedly limited) skills to solve a series of mysterious disappearances in this delightful debut mystery. Jane Pye and Simon Mash are a millennial couple with a little extra time on their hands. Jane was recently let go from her position as a back-

Judith D Collins
Jan 22 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: TBR (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 the

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


The Burning Side
By: Sarah Damoff Narrator: TBA Simon & Schuster Audio ISBN: 9781668085011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 06/l6/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) JUN 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 April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the ni

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


The Shadow Friends
Martini Club #3 By: Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 978-1662533419 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 08/25/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) AUG 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Book 3 of 3: The Martini Club See all formats and editions 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

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


Someone Else's Husband
By: Kimberly McCreight ISBN: 9780593536445 Publisher: Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor Publication Date: 06/16/2026 Format: Other My Rating: tBR JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight delivers a tour de force of character-driven suspense: the story of two women whose secrets and desires entrap them in a deadly love triangle. You had to rely on the power of love. That he loved you enough not to do the thing that would break your heart

Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read


You First
A Joe Goldberg Prequel YOU #5 By: Caroline Kepnes ISBN: 9780399591464 Pub Date: 06/09/2026 Publisher: Random House Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR JUN 2026V MUST-READ BOOKS 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 Times bestselling author Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, which inspired the blockbuster Netflix show. Joe Goldberg is ready for his life to start. He’s

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


Her Beautiful Life
By: Brianna Labuskes Narrators: Moniqua Plante, Jess Moran, Maria McCann ISBN: 978-1662527456 Pub Date: 01/01/2026 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars JAN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS The truth of one woman’s private life reveals the terrifying depths to which people will go to deceive in a twisting novel of suspense from USA Today bestselling author Brianna Labuskes. When journalist Holland Tate is granted an interview with Catriona Bouchard, her former bes

Judith D Collins
Jan 16 min read


Death Was Not on the Guest List
By: Jenni L. Walsh ISBN: 978-1662536274 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Publication Date: 06/16/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS #CoverReveal From USA Today bestselling author Jenni L. Walsh comes a witty Jazz Age mystery where rivalry, ambition, and deceit glitter under every chandelier…and no one gets out until the killer is unmasked. In Chicago’s Gold Coast district, twenty of the city’s most glamorous socialites gather for a charity whist drive at the

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


She Fell Away
By: Lenore Nash ISBN: 9781668098370 Publisher: Atria Books Publication Date: 03/10/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating:TBR (ARC) MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A State Department diplomat must confront the ghosts of her past as she searches for a missing American woman in New Zealand in this pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller. Lake Harlowe may not appear to be your typical State Department diplomat. With the number of skeletons in her closet exceeding the tattoos on her skin, s

Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read


The Secret Attic
By: Chelsea Conradt ISBN: 978-1464229190 Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Publication Date: 06/09/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR JUN 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "Haunting and atmospheric." ―Nalini Singh, New York Times bestselling author, for The Farmhouse The past isn't just haunting her―it's hunting her. Addison Lowe knew her mother-in-law despised her, but inheriting Barb's massive estate after her death feels less like closure and more like a trap. Barb's hoarded rooms aren't ju

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


Redbelly Crossing
By: Candice Fox ISBN: 9798892425650 Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 04/28/2026 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) APR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A fractured family of police detectives must solve the murder of a young woman in a small Australian town, unearthing dark secrets thought long buried. Since a violent confrontation tore apart a family five years ago, brothers and fellow cops Russell and Evan haven’t spoken a word to each other. When they’re both assigned t

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


Leave It Up To Love
A Short Story By : Kristy Woodson Harvey Narrators: Jorjeana Marie; Courtney Patterson Brilliance Publishing ISBN:9781511388078 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: Format: Auido & e-book My Rating: TBR MAR 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey comes a funny, feel-good tale—a seaside romp about chasing dreams, losing illusions, and writing your own story. Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila

Judith D Collins
Jan 12 min read


The Things We Never Say
By: Elizabeth Strout ISBN: 9798217154746 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 05/05/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a capsizing world. Artie Dam is living

Judith D Collins
Jan 13 min read






















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