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The Man
By: Laura Sims Narrators: Will Damron, Cassandra Campbell ISBN: 979-8217177677 Publisher: Penguin Audio Publication Date: 07/07/2026 Format: Audiobook My Rating: 5 Stars + JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS TOP AUDIOBOOKS OF 2026 PRAISED BY ANA REYES, MONA AWAD, ANDREA BARTZ, VANESSA CHAN, DANIELLE TRUSSONI, AND MORE! "Fiercely intelligent and deeply chilling. . . . The perfect book club read." —Ana Reyes, New York Times bestselling author of The House in the Pines From the highly accl
Judith D Collins
6 days ago12 min read
The Holiday Swap
By: A.J. McDine ISBN: 9504585242899 Publisher: Cherry Tree Publishing Publication Date: 07/30/2026 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS AUG #LiftLiftMiniAuthorChats The Holiday Swap is the explosive new thriller by Amazon bestselling author AJ McDine. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden, Claire Douglas and Andrea Mara. We’re broke. The last thing we can afford is a holiday. So when my husband Robin's wealthy boss offers to swap houses for the week,
Judith D Collins
Jul 319 min read
The Whisper
By: Chelsea Iversen Narrator: Beth Hicks ISBN: 9781464252297 Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark Publication Date: 07/28/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChats Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman and Riley Sager's Middle of the Night, comes a sweeping, atmospheric thriller following a group of friends and the power given to them by the trees… Rule 1: When the trees whisper, listen. Rule 2: Don't go into the woo
Judith D Collins
Jul 288 min read
Indie Darling
By: Lauren Nossett Narrator: Amara Jasper ISBN: 9781250459046 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Publication Date: 07/28/2026 Format: Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ALC) JUL 2026 MUST READ BOOKS A brilliant, breakout novel from ITW THRILLER AWARD-WINNING author Lauren Nossett—a mystery set in Nashville, where a Dolly Parton–loving private detective is drawn into the disappearance of an enigmatic pop star. "THRILLING...[A] propulsive, glittery mystery.” —Lisa Unger, NEW YORK TIMES bestsell
Judith D Collins
Jul 277 min read
Meet the In-laws
Meet the Parents #2 By: Emily Shiner Narrators: Elise Roth, Madeline Pell Hachette UK ISBN: 978-1807221713 Publisher: Bookouture Publication Date: 07/30/2026 Format: e-book My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS BLOG TOUR STOP JUL 31 Featured #LitLiftMiniAuthorChat JUL 31 As my mom greets my husband for the first time, I spot the new diamonds in her ears. She’s trying to impress him, although I know her smile is fake. But that’s okay. Because so is mine… The mother
Judith D Collins
Jul 258 min read
Our Marriage Is Murder
By: Carol Goodman Narrator: Marni Penning ISBN: 9780063398788 Publisher: William Morrow Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS In the latest thrilling mystery from Mary Higgins Clark Award–winning author Carol Goodman, a writers’ conference at an Italian castle turns deadly when a killer begins using a husband-and-wife writing team’s novel as a blueprint for murder. Fred and Thea Morgan-Lane are the envy of the myster
Judith D Collins
Jul 217 min read
Lost in the Fire
By: Robin Mahle ISBN: 9781805736615 Publisher: Joffe Books Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format: Paperback My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS A woman stops me in the street. She’s young, pregnant, and she looks at me like she knows me. “I’m Sophie,” she says. “We used to be best friends.” “Please don’t marry him,” she whispers. “You don’t know who he really is . . . “ I’ve rebuilt my life from the ashes. I lost my husband and child in a devastating house fire. I
Judith D Collins
Jul 205 min read
How To Kill A Crime Writer
By: Sarah Lotz Narrator: Ashley Tucker Penguin Audio ISBN: 9780593436790 Publisher: Berkley Pub Publication Date: 07/21/2026 Format:Other My Rating: 4.5 Stars (ARC) JUL 2026 MUST-READ BOOKS JUL #BlogTourStop After the untimely death of her bestselling crime novelist mother, a young woman teams up with the fictional “ghost” of the heroine from her mother’s series in order to solve her mother’s murder. After the tragic death of bestselling crime writer Annie Morrisey, her daugh
Judith D Collins
Jul 205 min read
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
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
Judith D Collins
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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