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From Jennifer's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Jennifer loves this book

So fun and touching. Rare to have a middle-aged woman as the main character. Highly recommend! I was giggling the whole way through and just fell in love with the characters and was so sad when the book ended. I wanted to hang with these people in real life!

By Clare Pooley ,

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3 authors picked Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project: Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It’s a rule. But what would happen if they did?

“A hilarious and sweet creation about a group of individuals who form a family with love at its core.” —USA Today

Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she knows only by nickname: Impossibly-Pretty-Bookworm and Terribly-Lonely-Teenager. Of course, they never speak. Seasoned commuters never do.…


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The High House by James Stoddard,

The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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Jill Fordyce Author Of Belonging

From Jill's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Jill Fordyce Why Jill loves this book

I received this book as part of Parnassus’ First Editions Club and although I’ve heard much about Lily King over the years, I had not yet read one of her books. Now I want to read them all. “Heart the Lover” was that rare combination of smart and sentimental, with beautiful fully drawn characters, lyrical prose, literary references, and a narrative arc that followed a transformative college friendship into middle age. A bonus is that it has one of those endings that is at once inevitable and surprising. A very satisfying and thought-provoking novel!

By Lily King ,

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4 authors picked Heart the Lover as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, and the lasting impact of first love

You knew I'd write a book about you someday.

Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.…


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From Winter's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Winter loves this book

I seem to be drawn to epistolary novels (Guernsey Literary and 84 Charing Cross) though I resist it! It takes a great author to create a fascinating whole out of fragments. The main character is someone I feel I'd like to know IRL--and like I already do. The conclusion of the major plot point was unexpected. I've speculated about how it would affect me.

By Virginia Evans ,

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9 authors picked The Correspondent as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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The Guardian of the Palace by Steven J. Morris,

The Guardian of the Palace is the first novel in a modern fantasy series set in a New York City where magic is real—but hidden, suppressed, and dangerous when exposed.

When an ancient magic begins to leak into the world, a small group of unlikely allies is forced to act…

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Hadley Leggett Author Of All They Ask Is Everything

From Hadley's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Hadley Leggett Why Hadley loves this book

This book is is a masterful example of the power of multiple points of view. For the entire first half of the book, I thought the husband was a complete jerk, and there didn't seem to be any way to redeem his character; then, we switch into his point of view, and suddenly I saw everything differently. Although very little happens in this book in terms of plot (spoiler alert, they get a divorce!), there is so much going on emotionally and character-wise, that I found myself completely immersed and could not stop reading.

By Moa Herngren ,

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1 author picked The Divorce as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. WHICH ONE WILL YOU BELIEVE?

'Addictively readable. Absorbing, bittersweet' Pandora Sykes

Gripping and emotional, THE DIVORCE explores the unravelling of a marriage from first the wife, then the husband's point of view.

Together for more than thirty years, Bea and Niklas live a comfortable life in Stockholm. But one evening, following a trivial argument, Niklas disappears. Weeks pass before it emerges that he has met someone else. To Bea's horror, he insists they must divorce.

But is this divorce really coming out of the blue? Is the person who does the leaving always…


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