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The Writers
A short story By: Alice Hoffman ISBN:9781662545733 Publisher: Amazon Original Stories Publication Date: 01/01/2027 Format:e-book My Rating:TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman writes about the chapters of our lives, the lengths friends will go for each other—and the love that will carry us through and beyond. Journalist Sara Miller and poet Charlotte Blake met at a writers’ group in their twenties and agreed on one thing: They di
Judith D Collins
Sep 232 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 (9/23) 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 ye
Judith D Collins
Sep 239 min read
A Killer for Christmas
By: Kim Harrington Narrator: Shaina Summerville ISBN: 9798892425032 Publisher: Crooked Lane Books Publication Date: 09/22/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS SEP Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat Wrapped in red has a bloody new meaning in this contemporary holiday romance with a murderous twist, perfect for readers who enjoyed The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year. Christmasville, Maine, is the only place where Kelsey Hendricks has ever felt happ
Judith D Collins
Sep 219 min read
The Munich Affair
By: James Patterson & David Ellis Narrators: Sam Claflin, Lorelei King ISBN: 9780316404099 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Publication Date: 09/21/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (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 journali
Judith D Collins
Sep 214 min read
Deadly Secrets
Dean Lincoln Legal Thriller #4 By Peter O'Mahoney Narrator: Troy Duran ISBN: 9781522616764 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Publication Date: 09/22/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Secrets. Lies. Explosions. The truth is about to turn deadly. When a teenager is killed at a remote doomsday prepper compound outside Beaufort, South Carolina, attorney Dean Lincoln finds himself defending a young man the law is eager to condemn. The evidence looks
Judith D Collins
Sep 204 min read
Call Off The Dark
By: Hallie Shepherd Narrator: Brittany Pressley ISBN:9780063489486 Publisher: HarperAudio Adult William Morrow Publication Date: 09/22/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC) (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS “Call Off the Dark is my favorite kind of thriller: so moving about true love and the aftermath of loss, and at the same time, twisty, confounding and impossible to put down.” —Clare Leslie Hall, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country A haunting, atmos
Judith D Collins
Sep 207 min read
Falling For Peachtree Bluff
By: Kristy Woodson Harvey Narrators: Janet Metzger, Shannon McManus, Rebekkah Ross, Erin Ruth Walker, Candace Thaxton Simon & Schuster ISBN: 9781668219300 Publisher: Gallery Books Publication Date: 09/15/2026 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Welcome to Peachtree Bluff: a sweet, cozy small town where family is everything. The “go-to for elevated beach reads,” (People), Kristy Woodson Harvey, returns just in time for pumpkin spice season. T
Judith D Collins
Sep 155 min read
Hollow Bones
By: Jodi Picoult Narrators: Rebecca Soler, MacLeod Andrews, Julia Whelan, Jodi Picoult Random House Audio ISBN: 9780593726259 Publisher: Ballantine Publication Date: 09/15/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars + (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner. On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fi
Judith D Collins
Sep 146 min read
Daughters of Gold
By: Robin Mahle ISBN: 9798996605705 Publisher: Harp House Publishing Publication Date: 09/15/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS Some women are born to inherit it. Others are forged by it. California, 1852 Gold fever has transformed the American frontier. Men flood west in search of fortune, while new towns emerge from the wilderness almost overnight. For some, the Gold Rush offers the chance to strike it rich. For others, it offers somethi
Judith D Collins
Sep 135 min read
A Rainy Night in Georgia
A Lawman's Brutal Murder, a Rogue Southern Sheriff, and a Prosecutor's Quest for Justice By: J. Tom Morgan Narrator: J. Tom Morgan Contributor: John Capouya ISBN:9798349169885 Publisher: Dreamscape Media Publication Date: 09/15/2026 Format:Audio My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ALC) SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS "A sheriff-elect was murdered. I was next on the hit list." —J.Tom Morgan In December 2000, Derwin Brown, the newly elected sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, was ambushed and murder
Judith D Collins
Sep 137 min read
The Law Student
The French Illusion .5 A prequel short story By: John Grisham ISBN:978-0385553834 Pub Date: 09/08/2026 Publisher: Doubleday Random House Audio Format: Audio Publication Date: 09/08/2026 My Rating: 5 Stars SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In this original prequel to his upcoming thriller, The French Illusion, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham introduces his next unforgettable hero in a moving story of family, ambition, and the pursuit of justice. As a college football
Judith D Collins
Sep 126 min read
Emerald Lake
By: Nita Prose ISBN: 9798217298457 Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 04/06/2027 Format: Other My Rating: TBR (ARC) APR 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS An idyllic lakeside cottage hides long-buried secrets in this haunting mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid. For most of her life, Jane Weber has kept the secrets of one devastating summer submerged in the brooding waters of Emerald Lake. Now, at eighty-four and in failing health, all Jane wants is
Judith D Collins
Sep 113 min read
The Last 39 Seconds
By: Michelle Gable ISBN: 9781464299391 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 02/09/2027 Format: Papetback My Rating: TBR (ARC) FEB 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS She Loved Him. She Knew Him. Didn't She? Captain Duncan Abernathy crashed a plane on takeoff, killing forty-six people. The official cause? Pilot error. He used the wrong runway. Indy Abernathy doesn't believe it. Her husband flew that route every week. He knew that airport by heart. He wasn't reckless. He wasn't c
Judith D Collins
Sep 112 min read
He Had it Coming
A Novella By: Darby Kane Narrators: Josh Bloomberg, Jennifer Pickens, Allyson Ryan ISBN: 978-0063488298 Publisher: William Morrow Paperback Publiction Date: 10/06/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS It’s been eight years since “the incident” that stole the future Jerek Hayes had planned. Accusations. Negative press attention. Rabid anger from people he’s never met. Some say he avoided responsibility for his crime. That his family’s money save
Judith D Collins
Sep 104 min read
The Dog Sitter
By: Eva Lesko Natiello Narrator: Soneela Nankani Brilliance Audio ISBN: 9780998285122 Publisher: Fine Line Publishing Publication Date: 05/19/2025 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars MAY 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS MAY featured #LitLitMiniAuthorChat SEP 2026 MUST-LISTEN AUDIO THE DOG SITTER is a feel-good romp that follows one woman’s unexpected self-discovery when she takes a 30-day dog sitting job in NYC despite not being a dog person (or a people person, frankly). Freshly divorced,
Judith D Collins
Sep 1014 min read
The Beautiful Burn
By: Ken Jaworowski ISBN: 9780802168849 Publisher: Grove Atlantic / Atlantic Crime Publication Date: 03/09/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: Currently Reading (ARC) MAR 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS “If you haven't read Jaworowski yet, you should start right now.”—Lisa Scottoline Edgar Award nominee Ken Jaworowski delivers a gripping thriller set in a forgotten Rust Belt town about three ordinary people who must each face the past they fled—or risk watching their dreams burn Locksburg
Judith D Collins
Sep 102 min read
Nothing Even Happened
By: H. Lee Justine ISBN:9798228506824 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publication Date: 01/26/2027 Format: Hardcover My Rating: TBR (ARC) JAN 2027 MUST-READ BOOKS Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Station Eleven in H. Lee Justine’s new novel—a trenchant and heartbreaking exploration of what love and humanity mean when life teeters at the edge of annihilation. Elliot and Oliver’s marriage is at a breaking point. Exhausted by the animosity she feels for her husband,
Judith D Collins
Sep 92 min read
Somebody Always Comes Looking
By: Paul Cleave ASIN: B0HHJN1YN9 Publisher: Paul Cleave Publication Date: 09/10/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars SEP 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS It’s funny how a bag full of cash can spin your moral compass all over the map, and who better to understand that than Luca Carpenter? When Luca and Katie meet on a beach in Malaysia, the attraction is immediate. What’s more, it turns out both are from New Zealand – they live only blocks from each other thousands of miles away back h
Judith D Collins
Sep 96 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 51 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 22 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 215 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 27 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 12 min read
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