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M Louise Foss

From M Louise's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why M Louise loves this book

Heartbreaking story of the horrifying role cartels have in Mexico and the terrifying path to safety that some people are forced to make. Lydia and her son hide in the bathroom while their ENTIRE family is gunned down in Acapulco. Somehow they escape and begin the trek to el Norte and some semblance of safety. But the path is fraught with peril. This was a compelling story and an unforgettable one.

By Jeanine Cummins ,

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13 authors picked American Dirt as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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*NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME*
'Breathtaking... I haven't been so entirely consumed by a book for years' Telegraph
'I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann Patchett

FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE.

Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is an unforgettable story of a mother and son's attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. Described as 'impossible to put down' (Saturday Review) and 'essential reading' (Tracy Chevalier), it is a story that will leave you utterly changed.

Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop.
Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist.
Yesterday, she was with everyone she loved…


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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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Mark Lawrence Author Of Daughter of Crows

From Mark's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Mark Lawrence Why Mark loves this book

Buehlman is an excellent writer - in my opinion he's a cut above the great majority of successful writers out there. I love his prose and the way he animates his story. He's an efficient writer who leans into (wonderful) dialogue to do a lot of the heavy lifting. He can do in 10 words what many writers will waffle for a paragraph to do half as well.

By Christopher Buehlman ,

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11 authors picked Between Two Fires as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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His extraordinary debut, Those Across the River, was hailed as “genre-bending Southern horror” (California Literary Review), “graceful [and] horrific” (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven, and of hell on earth… And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that…


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Joanne McLaughlin Author Of A Poetic Puzzle

From Joanne's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Joanne McLaughlin Why Joanne loves this book

I love Ann Patchett's writing. She is fearless in taking me places I never knew I wanted to go--in this case, the Amazon. Issues (ethical and moral) attached to exploration and academic rigor and altering the civilization into which one inserts oneself in the name of research abound here, but never does the story become anything but a gripping adventure.

By Ann Patchett ,

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10 authors picked State of Wonder as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, especially to her investors, whose patience is fast running out. Anders Eckman, a mild-mannered lab researcher, is sent to investigate. A curt letter reporting his untimely death is all that returns. Now Marina Singh, Anders' colleague and once a student of…


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Trusting Her Duke by Arietta Richmond,

A Duke with rigid opinions, a Lady whose beliefs conflict with his, a long disputed parcel of land, a conniving neighbour, a desperate collaboration, a failure of trust, a love found despite it all.

Alexander Cavendish, Duke of Ravensworth, returned from war to find that his father and brother had…

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Joanne McLaughlin Author Of A Poetic Puzzle

From Joanne's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Joanne McLaughlin Why Joanne loves this book

I read a lot of detective/mystery stories, and I write them myself. I had never read Nesbo previously, and this book is the ninth in his Harry Hole series. I was sucked in immediately, though the only backstory I had for the very complex main character was what I was seeing on the pages before me.

By Jo Nesbo , Don Bartlett (translator) ,

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

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Harry Hole is in trouble.

'Expertly plotted and structured...relentlessly paced...a compulsive page turner' Independent on Sunday

The police don't want him back...

After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back, but the case he's come to investigate is already closed, and the suspect already behind bars.

The criminals don't want him back...

Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his own, quickly discovering a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances apparently unnoticed by the police. At every turn, Harry…


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Karen Lynne Klink Author Of At What Cost, Silence?

From Karen's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Author Child abuse survivor Reader Adventure traveler Animal lover

Karen's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Karen Lynne Klink Why Karen loves this book

I loved the evoked feelings of love and community, where people support one another despite the odds.

By James McBride ,

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28 authors picked The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review

“We all need—we all deserve—this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for…


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Peggy Jenkins

From Peggy's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why Peggy loves this book

Great perspective

By Daniel Mason ,

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34 authors picked North Woods as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.

“With the expansiveness and immersive feeling of two-time Booker Prize nominee David Mitchell’s fiction (Cloud Atlas), the wicked creepiness of Edgar Allan Poe, and Mason’s bone-deep knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world that’s on par with that of Thoreau, North Woods fires on all cylinders.”—San Francisco Chronicle

New York…


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The Duke's Christmas Redemption by Arietta Richmond,

A Duke who has rejected love, a Lady who dreams of a love match, an arranged marriage, a house full of secrets, a most unneighborly neighbor, a plot to destroy reputations, an unexpected love that redeems it all.

Lady Charlotte Wyndham, given in an arranged marriage to a man she…

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From John's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

Unknown Author Why John loves this book

Olivier Burkeman seems to live inside of my own head - we share a lot of the same idiosyncrasies. With that said, I think that he has a thumb on the pulse of some of our most modern struggles. Abundance is everywhere but time is still finite - how do we make that work when we have more choice and feel like we have more time than ever? His analogies and ideas hit hard but also really land without making you feel like you need to accomplish anything in particular which is something we all need.

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Charlie Jane Anders Author Of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

From Charlie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Charlie Jane Anders Why Charlie loves this book

Vivid and gorgeous, full of surprises

By Tashan Mehta ,

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1 author picked Mad Sisters of Esi as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folktales of themselves, and pray to an enigmatic figure they know only as 'Great Wisa'. To Laleh, this is everything. For Myung, it is not enough.

When Myung flees the whale, she stumbles into a new universe where shapeshifting islands and ancient maps hold sway. There, she sets off on an adventure that is both tragic and transformative, for her and Laleh. For at the heart of her quest lies a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries: the truth about the mad…


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Charlie Jane Anders Author Of Lessons in Magic and Disaster

From Charlie's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Charlie's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Charlie Jane Anders Why Charlie loves this book

Super weird and colorful

By Bitter Karella ,

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

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'MOONFLOW will sink its tendrils into you and infest you with its spores . . . and you'll enjoy it' Drew Huff

Moonflow is three-time Hugo Award nominee Bitter Karella's debut horror novel - a gloriously queer and irreverent psychedelic trip into the heart of an eldritch wood and the horrors of (cis)terhood. Answer the call of the forest, if you dare.

I see something out there, in the woods. It does not have a face.

They call it the King's Breakfast. One bite and you can understand the full scope of the universe; one bite and you can commune…


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Old Man Country by Thomas R. Cole,

This book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom as he narrates encounters with 12 distinguished American men over 80, including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world’s most famous heart surgeon.

In these and other intimate conversations, the book…

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By Heather Webber ,

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1 author picked The Forget-Me-Not Library as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A detour. A chance encounter. Two women who alter the pages of each other's story.

Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she's fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big. Impulsively, she decides to take a solo summer road trip, hoping that the journey will lead her down a path that will help her discover exactly what it is that she's searching for.

Newly single mom Tallulah Byrd Mayfield is hanging by a thread after her neat, tidy world was completely undone when her husband…


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