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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evan
Intelligent, flinty, and emotionally dangerous. The Correspondent is a reminder that the person who writes the truth often pays the highest price for it.
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The Black Wolf
by Louise Penny
A late-series novel that proves Penny is still evolving — darker, more interior, and unwilling to offer comfort without consequence. A devastating, thoughtful entry in one of crime fiction’s most humane sagas.
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Atmosphere
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A lush, emotionally intelligent love story that treats romantic partnership as weather: changeable, dangerous, necessary. Taylor Jenkins Reid continues to be one of the few bestselling writers who refuses to condescend to her reader.
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The Intruder
by Freida McFadden
A nervy, whiplash domestic thriller with McFadden’s trademark rug-pulls. Addictively engineered for the modern attention span, and devilishly effective at keeping you in its trap.
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The Split Pea Tango
by Josh Hellyer
A genre-defying masterpiece that marries farce and suspense with soul. Equal parts intrigue and elegy, The Split Pea Tango is a haunting dance between truth and forgiveness.
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The Gingerbread Bakery
by Laurie Gilmore
A cozy, richly-scented holiday romance that doesn’t apologize for wanting to make the reader feel better. Gilmore knows exactly what she’s doing — and she does it beautifully.
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Secret Haven
by Catherine Cowles
A tender, suspense-laced romance that trusts the reader to feel the slow burn. Cowles continues to prove she’s one of the most emotionally intelligent writers in her lane.
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The Mad Wife
by Meagan Church
A fierce, empathetic indictment of how easily women could be erased by the institutions meant to “treat” them. Haunting, relevant, and driven by a moral intelligence that refuses to look away.
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The Academy
by Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham
A tightly engineered, prestige-campus novel that weds Hilderbrand’s readability to a more acidic register. Alluring, acidic, and often uncomfortably true about the seductions of power.
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Giving Up is Unforgivable
by Joyce Vance
A sober, necessary argument for sustained civic stamina — not glamorous, not hysterical, but deeply persuasive in its insistence that democracy dies first when its defenders get tired.
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Fourth Wing
by Rebecca Yarros
A feral, addictive, blood-and-lust fantasy that earns every ounce of hype by treating intimacy and warfare as twin crucibles.
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Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal
by Meghan Quinn
A filthy, fizzy, unexpectedly tender holiday rom-com that understands that absurdity can be a gateway to sincerity.
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Good Spirits
by B.K. Borison
A tender, restorative romance — not loud, not overwrought — but quietly confident in the seductive power of kindness.
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Mate
by Ali Hazelwood
Hazelwood proves (again) that “rom-com” can be an intellectual ecosystem — and that paranormal romance is not a detour but an expansion. Irresistible, deft, and slyly subversive.
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The Things Gods Break
by Abigail Owen
A wild, maximalist, high-concept fantasy that risks everything on the page — occasionally messy, often astonishing, and absolutely operating on a plane most fantasy doesn’t dare attempt.
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The Proving Ground
by Michael Connelly
Connelly, still the gold standard: not because he’s flashier than the pack, but because he refuses to lie to us about how the world works.
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The Widow
by John Grisham
A confident, late-career entry — measured, mature, and surgically observant about power. It’s not Grisham reinventing anything, but it is Grisham doing what only he can do: making the ordinary instruments of law feel like murder weapons.
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
A devastating and essential account of abuse, resilience, and the corrupt ecosystems that sustain both. In Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Giuffre does what the world so often refused to let her do — she speaks, and this time, no one can look away.
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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
by John U. Bacon
A powerful, thoughtful, and richly researched history that humanizes a maritime legend.
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Truly: The Official Inspirational Journey Through the Life of a Musical Legend
by Lionel Richie
Promising in its depth, offering an illuminating and human portrait of a musical icon.
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The Impossible Fortune: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
by Richard Osman
A clever, charming, and emotionally grounded mystery that reminds us why we love the series.
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My Beloved: A Mitford Novel
by Jan Karon
For Mitford devotees, a welcome return; for newcomers, a bit labyrinthine but still heartfelt.
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Cry Havoc: A Tom Reece Thriller
by Jack Carr
High-octane, morally restless, and narratively disciplined — a reminder why we read thrillers.
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Hostage
by Eli Sharabi
A searing, immediate, deeply humane account of survival, loss, and faith in extremity.
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Twice
by Mitch Albom
A warm, hopeful fable with sentiment to spare—though its speculative device occasionally undermines its emotional stakes.
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Alchemised
by SenLin Yu
A bracing, ambitious fantasy that sometimes overwhelms itself — but lingers through sheer intensity and imagination.
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Remain: A Supernatural Love Story
by Nicholas Sparks & M. Night Shyamalan
A ghostly romance that doesn’t fully cohere, but moves the heart nonetheless.
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The Promise of Heaven: 31 Reasons to Get Excited About Your Eternal Home
by Dr. David Jeremiah
Heartfelt, gently persuasive, and comfortingly clear. Not profound theology, but quietly luminous faith.
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Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
by Michael J. Fox with Nelle Fortenberry
A brisk and entertaining behind-the-scenes memoir from one of Canada’s most enduring stars. Future Boy captures Michael J. Fox’s charm and wit, even if it glances only briefly at the cost of that early brilliance.
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107 Days
by Kamala Harris
A revealing yet defensive political memoir that reads like damage control written in real time. Compelling, but not cathartic.
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Reese Witherspoon (with Harlan Coben)
A slick, emotionally grounded thriller that proves Reese Witherspoon’s storytelling instincts extend well beyond the screen.
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Sinners Atone
by Somme Sketcher
Sinfully elegant and emotionally charged, Somme Sketcher’s Sinners Atone cements her place as one of the most assured voices in dark romance. A story of love forged in guilt and defiance, told with the kind of heat and humanity that linger long after the smoke clears.
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John Candy: A Life in Comedy
by Paul Myers
A deeply affectionate, impeccably researched, and quietly moving biography. Paul Myers does for John Candy what Candy once did for all of us—makes us laugh, makes us care, and makes us wish we had just one more scene together.
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