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From Winter's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Winter loves this book

The characters' disintegration was so believable...no one was too good or too bad. I find that I like campus mysteries, and this one covers both school years and coming back in later life. I would definitely read other books by Makkai!

By Rebecca Makkai ,

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8 authors picked I Have Some Questions for You as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR OPRAH DAILY, TIME, NPR, USA TODAY, BUSTLE, STAR TRIBUNE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND MORE**

'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES

'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER

'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN

'Addictive' OPRAH DAILY

The riveting new novel from the author of The Great Believers, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past: the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the 1995 murder…


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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…

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Rosemary McCracken Author Of Riversong

From Rosemary's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Rosemary's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Rosemary McCracken Why Rosemary loves this book

With his historical romance, Bad Juliet, Giles Blunt takes readers to Saranac Lake in upstate New York in 1917, at that time a sanitorium town where tuberculosis patients "took the cure." The story is driven by psychological suspense, as the protagonist, Paul Gascoyne, becomes obsessed with a beautiful patient, and comes to realize what she tells him about herself is a tangle of truth and fiction.

By Giles Blunt ,

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

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At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster.

“Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form.” ― Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of Species

Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack…


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