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Judith D Collins
- Oct 4
- 4 min
Mad Honey
By: Jodi Picoult and Finney Boylan ISBN: 978-1984818386 Publisher: Random House/Ballantine Publication Date: 10/04/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) OCT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She's Not There. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect li
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 19
- 6 min
Lucy By The Sea
By: Elizabeth Strout ISBN: 978-0593446065 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST From Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. With her trad
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Judith D Collins
- Sep 3
- 3 min
Dreamland
By: Nicholas Sparks ISBN: 978-0593449554 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 09/20/2022 Format: Hardcover My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) SEPT 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream—and whether it’s possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North
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Judith D Collins
- Aug 2
- 5 min
The Housekeeper
By: Joy Fielding ISBN: 978-0593158920 Publisher: Ballantine/Random House Publication Date: 08/16/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) AUG 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS LIST A woman hires a housekeeper to care for her aging parents—only to watch as she takes over their lives in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey calls “an ingenious master of domestic suspense.” In the end, I have only myself to blame. I’m the one who let her in. Jod
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 24
- 4 min
The New Neighbor
By: Karen Cleveland ISBN: 978-0593358023 Publisher: Ballantine Publication Date: 07/26/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) Secrets, jealousy, and paranoia collide when a seemingly perfect new family moves into a neighborhood with ties to the CIA in this gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. “Karen Cleveland ingeniously melds domestic intrigue with the lightning pace of a spy thriller, showing us the devastating personal costs o
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 11
- 5 min
Upgrade
By: Blake Crouch ISBN: 978-0593157534 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 07/12/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST JULY 2022 MUST-READ BOOKS An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation—and fears that all of humanity may be next—in the mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion “You are the next step in human evolution.” At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s differen
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Judith D Collins
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Listen to Me
By: Tess Gerritsen ISBN: 978-0593497135 Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication Date: 07/05/2022 Format: Other Narrator: Tanya Eby Brilliance Audio My Rating: 4 Stars (ARC) Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane’s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. “Abso
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 21
- 12 min
Catch Her When She Falls
By: Allison Buccola ISBN: 978-0593231296 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 02/01/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars DEBUT NOVEL TOP BOOKS OF 2022 FEATURED FEB AUTHOR QA In this “propulsive” (Kimberly McCreight) debut thriller, a young woman questions everything she thought she knew about the shocking murder that changed her life when she was in high school. “A riveting game of cat and mouse with a startling conclusion.”—Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The
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Judith D Collins
- Feb 17
- 5 min
With Love From London
By: Sarah Jio ISBN: 978-1101885086 Publisher: Ballantine Publication Date: 02/08/2022 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars +++ (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2022 LIST When a woman inherits her estranged mother’s bookstore in London’s Primrose Hill, she finds herself thrust into the pages of a new story—hers—filled with long-held family secrets, the possibility of new love, and, perhaps, the single greatest challenge of her life. When Valentina Baker was only eleven years old, her mother,
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Judith D Collins
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
Wish You Were Here
By: Jodi Picoult ISBN: 9781984818416 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 11/30/2021 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars (ARC) TOP BOOKS OF 2021 LIST From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in
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Judith D Collins
- Jul 14, 2021
- 11 min
What's Done in Darkness
By: Laura McHugh ISBN: 9780399590313 Publisher: Random House Publication Date: 06/22/21 Format: Other My Rating: 5 Stars +++ Top Books of 2021 Abducted as a teenager, a woman must now confront her past and untangle the truth of what really happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. One of 2021’s Best Beach Reads—OPRAH DAILY “Laura McHugh expertly delivers a harrowing tale of a world where little is what it first appears to be.”—Ron Rash, best
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