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Ilana Masad Author Of Beings

From Ilana's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Ilana Masad Why Ilana loves this book

Megan Giddings is truly one of my favorite writers, and this book absolutely blew my socks off. I loved how it surprised me at every turn, and how, at the same time, its ending felt like the best, most perfect, and really only ending possible. What a treat.

By Megan Giddings ,

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1 author picked Meet Me at the Crossroads as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A LIBRARY READS PICK

From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel about two brilliant sisters and what happens to their undeniable bond when a mysterious and possibly perilous new world beckons.

On an ordinary summer morning, the world is changed by the appearance of seven mysterious doors that seemingly lead to another world. People are, of course, mesmerized and intrigued: A new dimension filled with beauty and resources beckons them to step into an adventure. But, perhaps inevitably, people soon learn that what looks like paradise may very well be filled with…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Happy People Don't Live Here

Ilana Masad Author Of Beings

From Ilana's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Ilana's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Ilana Masad Why Ilana loves this book

A remarkable book - tender and smart and sweet and gut-wrenching and heartwarming all in equal measure, somehow.

By Amber Sparks ,

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1 author picked Happy People Don't Live Here as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Just past the edge of summer, Alice and her daughter, Fern, arrive at the Pine Lake Apartments-a former sanatorium occupied by an ensemble of peculiar neighbors and a smattering of ghosts. Among the living: the Mermaid Lady, who performs in a nightclub fish tank; the building's handyperson, moonlighting as a medium; and an awkwardly charming professor of medieval studies. Fern alone is acquainted with the undead, who pass like troubled clouds through the apartments, humanity mostly lost ages ago. For the determinedly private Alice, Pine Lake seems the perfect place at the edge of the world to hide herself and…


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