From literary fiction to mysteries & thrillers, Book of the Month Club has it all. Discover every title chosen by Book of the Month in 2022.
Book of the Month is my favorite book subscription box. Every month, they choose five amazing titles for you to choose from, and voila! A blue box arrives at your door carrying one (or two or three) new books for you to read.
Even if you don’t have a Book of the Month Club subscription (yet), I think you’ll find value in looking at their curated list of new releases. No matter what genres you love to read, you’ll find great book choices in the Book of the Month 2022 selections.
Compiled together in one place, here is every book chosen by Book of the Month in 2022.
What is Book of the Month?
Book of the Month is a monthly book subscription service highly popular among the book community. Trust me, once you try it, you’ll be hooked.
How it Works
Each month, a panel of judges chooses at least five books for you to choose from. The Book of the Month selections cover different genres and are always special edition hardcovers. Often, the chosen books haven’t been published yet, so you get to be one of the first people to read them.
At the beginning of the month, you choose one book to add to your box and shortly thereafter the little blue box arrives at your door. If you aren’t loving any of the selected books, you just skip that month and your credits will just roll over to the next month. Or, after your third box, you can choose from five member favorite books for your month’s selection instead.
On the other hand, if you want more than one book, once you’ve chosen your initial book, you can add-on up to two additional books at a discounted rate. These add-ons can be from the current month’s selection, be favorites from previous months, or be new releases specially included in the add-on catalog.
Pricing
Book of the Month runs two different pricing plans. On the monthly plan, you get one credit a month for $17. If you are willing to pay upfront, the yearly plan gives you 12 credits for $168, which averages out to $14 a book. For a hardcover new release, both prices are a steal.
Even better, when you include additional books into your box, they are only $10 each!
Book of the Month also offers 3, 6, and 9-month gift cards if you are considering purchasing it as a gift.
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Bonus Features
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After that, you’ll get a free add-on every year for your birthday month. Plus, when the end of the year rolls around, you get one of the top 5 Book of the Month selections from the year for free. That’s an additional two books each year for no additional cost.
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Book of the Year 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
My top pick of the year is also Book of the Month’s Book of the Year. On a bitterly cold day, Sam Masur runs into Sadie Green on a train platform and they renew their childhood friendship bonding over video games. Together, they created the blockbuster video game Ichigo, a blockbuster game that changes their lives. Over the next three decades, their friendship is tested as their success leads them to money, fame, love, and betrayal. More a heartrending story about friendship than video games, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, is one of the best books I’ve read recently, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Book of the Year Finalists
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls disappeared from her small Louisiana town and her father was convicted as a serial killer. As her wedding approaches, Chloe fears the past is repeating when teen girls start vanishing. Is she imagining the parallels to her past or is the past truly coming back to haunt her?
Black Cake
Charmaine Wilkerson
Estranged siblings Byron and Benny are brought back together by their mother’s death. For their inheritance, they find a traditional Caribbean black cake and a voice recording from their mother. Eleanor’s message tells the turbulent story of her life, one full of secrets and a long-lost child that will leave the siblings questioning everything they thought they knew.
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
After spending a year at a prison work farm for involuntary manslaughter, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson returns to his Nebraska hometown. With his mother gone and his father recently deceased, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head West. But his plans are derailed when two friends from the work farm suddenly appear with a scheme of their own.
The Love Hypothesis
Ali Hazelwood
To convince her friend that she has a boyfriend, third-year Ph.D. student Olive Smith kisses the first boy she meets – a young hotshot professor who is remarkably full of himself. Surprisingly, Adam agrees to go along with their fake relationship. As Olive’s fake relationship spurs real feelings, Olive must decide how much she is willing to risk for love.
BOOK OF THE MONTH 2022 SELECTIONS
Literary Fiction
Someday, Maybe
Onyi Nwabineli
On New Year’s Eve, Eve’s husband Q dies by suicide. While you learn more about Eve and Q’s relationship, Nwabineli’s debut novel focuses on Eve’s complicated emotions after her husband’s death. From shock to anger to depression, Eve navigates her grief with the help of her Nigerian family and a group of loyal friends in this powerful story.
The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
Jamie Ford
Former poet laureate Dorothy Moy has always channeled her dissociative episodes and mental health into her work. When her daughter starts showing similar behaviors and remembering items from the lives of past ancestors, Dorothy undergoes an experimental treatment to alleviate inherited trauma. As Dorothy becomes intimately connected with the past generations of women in her family, she finds a stranger is searching for her in each time period.
The Light Pirate
Lily Brooks-Dalton
In a Florida already wracked by climate change, Frida gives birth to baby Wanda amid a deadly hurricane. As the world continues to disintegrate, Wanda grows and adapts to an ever-changing world. Living in a community abandoned by society, Wanda seeks adventure, community, and love in a place remade by nature. Brooks-Dalton’s lyrical prose gives an added force to climate fiction, painting the end of the world with such beauty you can’t look away.
True Biz
Sara Nović
Sara Nović gives you an insightful look into the deaf community with a story about the personal and political crises that surround students and the headmistress at the River Valley School for the Deaf. Charlie is a rebellious transfer student who has never met another deaf person and Austin is the school’s golden boy who is shocked when his baby sister is born hearing. Meanwhile, February is desperately trying to keep the school open and her marriage intact.
Fiona and Jane
Jean Chen Ho
In her debut work, Jean Chen Ho tells the tale of two Taiwanese-American friends throughout their tumultuous lives. Growing up in LA, Jane always knew that Fiona, with her fierce ambition and drop-dead beauty, was destined to leave. When Fiona moves to New York and Jane stays in LA grieving her father’s death, their friendship waxes and wanes but never breaks.
Yerba Buena
Nina LaCour
Mystery clings to Sara Foster, a sought-after bartender at an upscale L.A. restaurant, whose past keeps her from trusting others. When perpetual undergrad Emilie Dubois takes a job arranging flowers at Yerba Buena, she immediately feels a connection with Sara. As the two women battle the demons of their past and struggle to find their place in the world, they must decide if their love is worth the risk.
Woman of Light
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
After her older brother is run out of town, Luz Lopez is left to fend for herself in 1930s Denver. When she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland, she learns of the struggles of three generations of her family and finds she is the only one who can tell their story.
The Verifiers
Jane Pek
Although her family wishes she would settle down to a nice job with a nice Chinese boy, Claudia Lin has no desire to be put in a box. Secretly, she works as an investigator for a referrals-only online dating agency verifying people’s online lives. When a client with an unusual request disappears, Claudia goes off book to investigate and uncovers a trove of political and personal deceit.
Vladimir
Julia May Jonas
An edgy debut about a popular English professor whose husband has just been accused of inappropriate behavior with former students. Although the couple has long had an understanding about extramarital activities, the new allegations make her rethink her marriage while at the same time she finds herself becoming obsessed with a handsome married student. With nods to Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Vladimir is a dark complicated story about power and consent.
Contemporary Fiction
The Fortunes of Jaded Women
Carolyn Huynh
Mai Nguyen knows that she and her daughters are cursed never to find love or happiness thanks to her ancestor who left her husband for true love and was cursed by a Vietnamese witch. Desperate, Mai consults a trusted psychic who predicts the family will have a marriage, a funeral, and the birth of a son, a prediction that will bring together the estranged women in Nguyen’s family.
We are the Light
Matthew Quick
After a recent tragedy, everyone in a small Pennsylvania town sees Lucas Goodgame as a hero, except Lucas. Visited every night in his dreams by his wife, the widower Lucas struggles to find meaning in his life until a grieving teenager begins camping in Lucas’ backyard. As an unlikely alliance takes place, Lucas’ act of kindness magically transforms the entire town.
The Unsinkable Greta James
Jennifer E. Smith
After the unexpected death of her mother, singer Greta James has a mental breakdown on stage and the viral footage threatens to ruin her career. Adrift in her career, Greta agrees to go with her father on the Alaska cruise he had booked for his fortieth wedding anniversary. When she meets a charming historian, Greta finds herself set on a path of healing.
When We Were Bright and Beautiful
Jillian Medoff
When Billy, a junior at Princeton, is accused of rape by his ex-girlfriend, his family vow to do anything to defend him. Although Billy’s white privileged background fits the stereotype, Billy’s sister Chloe knows he couldn’t have done it. Reeling from her own bad breakup, Chloe must decide how many of her own secrets she is willing to reveal to save Billy.
The Lifestyle
Taylor Hahn
Georgina has the life she always imagined until she walks in on her cheating husband Nathan. Since divorce is not an option, Georgina decides to take up swinging along with her two best friends whom Georgina knows are destined for each other. But when Georgina runs into an ex, she finds herself torn between her head and her heart.
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Romance
Love on the Brain
Ali Hazelwood
When NASA offers Bee Königswasser the lead on a neuroengineering project, she is thrilled until she learns she must work with her grad school archnemesis, the handsome Levi Ward. When her equipment goes missing and the staff begins ignoring her, Bee realizes that Levi is starting to support her at work, and must decide if she has the guts to lay her heart on the line.
The Bodyguard
Katherine Center
After her mom dies and her boyfriend dumps her, Hannah Brooks is desperate to avoid her mess of a life and sink into work as an Executive Protection Agent, a bodyguard to wealthy corporate clients. In walks her next assignment, reclusive superstar actor Jack Stapleton who needs protection from a middle-aged stalker while visiting his sick mother. The catch: Jack wants Hannah to pretend to be his girlfriend so his family won’t know. Now Hannah must act the part, and decide whether Jack’s just a really good actor or if the connection they seem to share is real. A cute engaging contemporary romance that delivers a light easy rom-com without steamy sex scenes.
Publication Date: 19 July 2022
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Part of Your World
Abby Jimenez
After a bet, city-girl Alexis has her heart stolen by country boy Daniel Grant, a carpenter ten years her junior. Although her wealthy parents disapprove, Alexis finds herself enchanted by Daniel and his small town. With so many differences between her, can Alexis find lasting happiness with Daniel, even if it means she has to turn her back on her family?
Kiss Her Once For Me
Alison Cochrun
After a whirlwind one-night romance ends in heartbreak and she losses her dream job, Ellie Oliver is left adrift in Portland, Oregon. Working at a coffee shop, Ellie is stunned with the shop’s landlord has a crazy drunken idea: if they get married, he will get his inheritance and her financial problems will be fixed. Except when they visit his family for the holidays, Ellie finds that his sister happens to be the one that got away, forcing Ellie to choose between love and security.
Love & Other Disasters
Anita Kelly
On America’s favorite cooking show, a newly divorced woman and the show’s first nonbinary contest fall for each other in this romantic comedy. London Parker is determined to prove their family and the trolls wrong and has no time for clumsy fellow contestant Dahlia Woodson, whose hopes of reinventing herself aren’t going very smoothly. Yet the more time they spend together, the more reality – with the stress of transphobia and the guilt of divorce – seems to fall away.
Dating Dr. Dil
Nisha Sharma
A Taming of the Shrew remake perfect for any enemies-to-lovers romance readers. Hopeless romantic Kareena Mann has four months to find the perfect soulmate, one that will win the approval of her meddling aunties, and then she can inherit her father’s house. Expert cardiologist Dr. Prem Verma, host of the Dr. Dil Show, is a pessimist about love, but he needs to improve his image or his show will be canceled, and the easiest way is to date Kareena. Despite competing interests and a disasters series of dates, Prem begins to wonder if happily-ever-after might actually be possible.
Historical Fiction
Take My Hand
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Take My Hand is inspired by the true story of government overreach in the forced sterilization of poor Black girls. In 1973, Civil Townsend is excited to use her new nursing degree to make a difference in the lives of her African-American community in Montgomery, Alabama. However, Civil is shocked to find her first patients are two young Black girls (ages 11 and 13) on birth control and begins to question the ethics of her work. Powerfully personalizing the entire scenario, the story focuses on Civil’s struggle: her feelings of culpability and her desire to help the family.
Jacqueline in Paris
Ann Mah
The coming of age story of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who spent a year studying abroad in Paris in 1949. Knowing her family’s precarious finances, Jacqueline Bouvier knows she will be expected to marry well after graduating college. But for this one year in Paris, Jacqueline can just be herself as she falls in love with a writer … and with the city itself.
The Good Left Undone
Adriana Trigiani
When Italy becomes unsafe at the start of World War II, Domenica Cabrelli leaves her small village, traveling to Marseilles, Scotland, and finally Liverpool where Italians are imprisoned without cause. Along the way, Domenica experiences love, loss and grief. A hundred years later, Domenica’s daughter is ready to tell her mother’s story, hoping to inspire her own daughter to understand what’s worth fighting for in this multigenerational epic tale.
The Magnolia Palace
Fiona Davis
After her mother’s death, Lillian Carter finds herself without a purpose. Previously one of New York City’s most requested artist models, Lillian decides to take a job as a private secretary to the socialite Helen Frick. As Lillian gets caught up in the family’s drama in the 1920s, a present-day English model finds clues to the notorious murder in the former Frick mansion.
The Circus Train
Amita Parikh
In 1938, Lena Papadopoulos doesn’t feel like she fits in with the circus that raised her, preferring science over magic after a childhood case of polio leaves her in a wheelchair. When Lena rescues Alexandre, an orphan, the two strike up a friendship as he learns to be an illusionist’s assistant to Lena’s father. When WWII begins, the Nazis force Alexandre and her father are forced to perform in a town for Jews. Suddenly, Lena finds herself on her own and must find the courage to believe in herself and rise to meet life’s challenges.
Peach Blossom Spring
Melissa Fu
Peach Blossom Spring is a family saga that follows 70 years of the Dao family. After a life as a refugee, first fleeing from the Japanese Army and then relocating during the Civil War, Renshu Dao and his mother Meilin eventually end up in Taiwan. When Renshu attends graduate school in America, he reinvents himself as Henry and refuses to talk about his childhood or heritage to his American wife or daughter.
Bronze Drum
Phong Nguyen
In 40 CE, two daughters of a Viatnamese Lord live their lives under the oppression of the Han Chinese. Trung Trac is the perfect disciplined daughter while free-spirited Trung Nhi prefers to run around with her lovers. When their father is executed, the sisters must unite the women of Vietnam into an army to free their people.
The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle
Jennifer Ryan
After she loses everything in the London Blitz, fashion designer Cressida Westcott moves in with her niece and nephew at their family estate. Wher Cressida shows up at the local sewing circle, she is a godsend for the brides of the town, teaching them more than just sewing skills as the prepare wedding dresses at the height of rationing.
Hester
Laurie Lico Albanese
A reimagining of the life of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel The Scarlet Letter. In the early 1800s, Isobel Gamble sets sail with her husband to start a new life in America, a new life from which her husband quickly abandons her penniless. Soon she grows close to Nathaniel Hawthorne, a storyteller haunted by his family’s past. Quickly Isobel learns that America’s promise of freedom comes with some major caveats.
The Attic Child
Lola Jaye
In 1907, twelve-year-old Celestine is locked in the attic room of a large house by the sea, stolen from Africa and held against his will as kept as an unpaid servant. Decades later, Lowra, a young orphan girl from a privileged background, finds herself captive in the same attic room. When she’s older, Lowra tries to cope with her childhood abuse by searching for the truth of the other child from the attic.
Don’t Cry for Me
Daniel Black
As he lays dying, Jacob writes a letter to his estranged son Isaac sharing stories from his life and his family’s history extending all the way back to slavery. Jacob expresses his regrets about his marriage and his lack of acceptance of his son’s sexual orientation. In Don’t Cry for Me, Jacob’s letter grapples with the consequences of intergenerational trauma, hoping to help his son find peace and escape his father’s mistakes.
Mystery & Thriller
The Golden Couple
Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Rogue therapist Avery Chambers promises that she can fix any problem in 10 sessions with her unconventional methods that have stripped her of her license. After cheating on her husband, Marissa Bishop is willing to do anything to save her marriage to Matthew. As Avery looks deeper into the seemingly perfect couple, she finds that there is much more going on than any of them suspect. With a compelling story and plenty of twists to keep you guessing, fans of the thriller duo will love their new psychological thriller.
Reckless Girls
Rachel Hawkins
It seems like a chance of a lifetime when Lux McCallister and her boyfriend Nico are hired to sail two women to a remote Pacific island. Yet, when they arrive, another boat is already anchored there, piloted by a golden couple. The party of six gets along great until another stranger arrives and the perfect vacation turns deadly.
The Lies I Tell
Julie Clark
Meg. Maggie. Melody. Whatever name she’s using at the moment, she’s a con artist who slides into your life and takes everything when she leaves. Kat Roberts has been waiting ten years to expose the con artist who upended her life. Yet, when the con artist returns, Kat finds matters much more complicated than she realized.
The Book of Cold Cases
Simone St. James
In 1977, two men were murdered with the same gun but the prime suspect, the eccentric Beth Greer, was acquitted at trial. Searching for a story for her true-crime blog, Shea Collins decides to interview Beth, in a mansion that feels haunted. The deeper Shea dives into the truth, the more she worries she is being manipulated by a cold-blooded murderer.
Things We Do in the Dark
Jennifer Hillier
When Paris Peralta is arrested for her celebrity husband’s murder, found covered in blood standing over his dead body holding a straight razor, she knows she’s looking at a murder charge. Yet, Paris is more worried about her past secrets. Twenty-five years ago, Ruby Reyes was convicted for a similar murder in Canada. Unexpectedly released from prison, Ruby threatens to expose Paris’s past, which might force Paris to face two murder charges.
Breathless
Amy McCulloch
Journalist Cecily Wong has given up everything to join famous mountaineer Charles McVeigh on his record-breaking climb of Mt. Manaslu, the eighth-highest peak in the world. When a climber dies in a freak accident, Cecily worries the expedition might have to turn back. Then a second climber dies, and Cecily realizes she’s trapped high in the mountains with a killer.
Girl, Forgotten
Karin Slaughter
While protecting a judge getting death threats, newly US Marshal Andrea Oliver can’t resist investigating a cold case. On prom night in 1982, the popular Emily Vaughn is killed. Emily was hiding a secret, but her wealthy family and friends closed ranks after her gruesome murder. Not Andrea is determined to use her powers to find out what happened to Emily.
Daisy Darker
Alice Feeney
For their Nana’s 80th birthday party, the entire Darker family reunites for the first time in years at Nana’s house on a remote island. At midnight, Nana is found dead. When another body follows and the tide traps them on the island, the family realizes they must confront their darkest secrets or risk all being killed off one by one.
The Paris Apartment
Lucy Foley
Looking for a fresh start, Jess moves into her half-brother’s Paris apartment only to find him missing. The longer Ben stays gone, the more Jess begins to question his living situation. Jess can tell the neighbors know more than they are telling, making each one a viable suspect in this new thriller from the author of The Guest List.
The Family Game
Catherine Steadman
Up-and-coming novelist Harriet Reed is ecstatic to be marrying Edward Holbeck. Although he’s been estranged from the Holbeck family for years, Edward’s engagement sparks the family to want to draw him back in, especially since he’s the heir to the family fortune. What seems like a lovely family reunion turns dark when Harriet is given a tape confessing to a murder. Now the game is afoot, and Harriet isn’t sure what part she is expected to play.
All the Dangerous Things
Stacy Willingham
A year ago, Isabelle Drake’s life was dramatically changed when her toddler was taken while she and her husband slept in the next room. Now suffering from crippling insomnia, Isabelle is obsessed with finding Mason. When she turns to a true crime podcaster for help, Isabelle begins to doubt her memories of the day Mason disappeared.
The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh
During the New Year’s Day polar swim, the body of wealthy real estate developer Rhys Lloyd washes up in a small Welsh town. After an awkward one-night stand together, local detective Ffion Morgan must work with English detective Leo Brady to discover how killed Rhys. But the more they discover about Lloyd’s life, the more they realize that almost everyone has a reason to want him dead. I loved the setting, but as a whole, The Last Party ended up being an underwhelming boilerplate mystery with glacially slow pacing and a murder victim who turned out to be too evil, the absolute scum of the earth.
You’re Invited
Amanda Jayatissa
Amaya is surprised when she receives an invitation to her former best friend’s lavish wedding in Sri Lanka. Until Amaya learns that Kaavi is marrying Amaya’s ex-boyfriend. Desperate to stop the wedding, Amaya finds herself at the center of the wedding’s rumor mill. When Kaavi disappears, Amaya finds she is the prime suspect.
Killers of a Certain Age
Deanna Raybourn
After spending a lifetime as deadly assassins for The Museum, four women are given an all-inclusive vacation to celebrate their retirement. Once the network’s most prizest assets, Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie are being cast aside now in favor of younger more tech-savvy individuals. When they realized they are being targeted for assassination, the four women turn against their organization and prove that killers of a certain age can still be deadly.
First Born
Will Dean
Molly Raven and her twin sister Katie couldn’t be more different. While Molly lives a quiet structured life in London, Katie is an outgoing free spirit in New York. When she learns Katie was possibly murdered, Molly goes to New York to investigate her sister’s death and discovers her sister was not who Molly thought she was.
Like a Sister
Kellye Garrett
When a disgraced Black reality tv star is found dead, the police are quick to declare it an overdose. But her estranged half sister Lena, a graduate student at Columbia, knows that there is more to the story. Although they haven’t spoken in two years, Lena is determined to dive into her sister’s death, and uncovers dark family secrets along the way.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror
The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas
After her father is executed in the Mexican War of Independence, Beatriz reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from Don Rodolfo Solórzano. Settling into his house, Hacienda San Isidro, Beatriz begins to hear voices and see visions. When her husband returns to the capital, Beatriz seeks help from the local priest to fight the lurking evil and discover what happened to the Don’s previous wife.
Babel
R. F. Kuang
In 1828, Robin Swift, an orphan, is brought from Canton to London by the mysterious Dr. Lovell. For years he trains in different languages to be accepted to Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel. Learning to translate, and the magic that comes with it, soon puts Swift on a collision course between loyalty to his homeland and his adopted company when Britain starts a war with China.
The Wilderwomen
Ruth Emmie Lang
Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared leaving behind her two daughters, Zadie and Finn. Even though she’s a psychic, Zadie didn’t foresee her mother’s disappearance. When Finn seizes an echo of a memory of Nora, she believes their mother is still alive and convinces her estranged sister to accompany her on a journey into their mother’s past. But as Finn starts losing herself in Nora’s memories, Zadie must decide where to draw the line or risk losing them both. With subtle magical realism and a meandering storyline, I was less than impressed with Lang’s November release.
Upgrade
Blake Crouch
In a future where the world has been ravaged by the unintended consequences of gene editing, Logan Ramsay works for the Genetic Protection Agency, tracking down unauthorized gene editors to atone for his family’s role in the disaster. When an explosion infects Logan with a virus, he undergoes a genetic transformation and now must use his new abilities to stop it from happening to anyone else. Just so you know, I was bored to tears throughout this entire book and thought it lacked the power of Crouch’s previous books.
Publication Date: 12 July 2022
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Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel
A reimagining of the life of Kaikeyi, the vilified jealous queen from the Indian epic the Ramayana, who transforms herself from an overlooked princess into a warrior. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, Kaikeyi wants to be more than just a pawn used for her marriage potential. Using magic, she transforms herself into a warrior and queen, but her plans clash with the destiny the gods have set for her family.
Darling Girl
Liz Michalski
In a dark reimagining of the Peter Pan story, Wendy’s granddaughter Holly is shocked when her daughter disappears. Eden has been in a coma for over a decade and has a rare disease that makes her blood valuable. Holly knows Peter Pan is responsible and turns to an ex-soldier to help her rescue her daughter before it’s too late.
The Stardust Thief
Chelsea Abdullah
In a fantasy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, Loulie al-Nazari is a thief of illegal magic with the help of her jinn bodyguard. When Loulie saves the life of a cowardly prince, she catches the attention of his father, the Sultan. Now Loulie and the sultan’s oldest son must search for a magical lamp that will destroy the jinn or risk losing their own lives.
Other Birds
Sarah Addison Allen
After her mother’s death, Zoey Hennessey moves into her apartment at The Dellawisp along the South Carolina coast. When a neighbor dies the night she arrives, Zoey is caught up in the mystery of The Dellawisp. As Zoey gets to know her quirky neighbors and searches for a lost manuscript, unfinished stories seem to permeate the premises in this tale of magical realism.
Small Angels
Lauren Owen
Chloe’s dream wedding is all coming together and she has the perfect venue, Small Angels, a charming old church in the village her fiance Sam grew up in. As the big day approaches, Chloe begins to hear strange ghost stories about the village and the church. Now, as Sam’s sister Kate returns for the first time in years, she must confront her first love and the ghosts of the past.
A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross
In a new fantasy series, Rebecca Ross introduces you to the island of Cadence, where enchantments run deep. When young girls start disappearing, Jack Tamerlaine is summoned back to the island after ten years away to use his musical ability to entice the spirits to help find the girls. Now he must work with his childhood enemy and delve into the deepest secrets of Cadence.
White Horse
Erika T. Wurth
Kari James is an urban Native who loves heavy metal, Stephen King and hanging out at her local dive bar, White Horse. When Kari’s cousin Debby gives her a bracelet that belonged to Kari’s mother, Kari finds herself haunted by nightmares of her mother and a monstrous creature. Now for the first time, Kari begins to look for the truth to why her mother left when she was two, and finds that her family and the local cops are hiding big secrets.
The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias
With mountains of medical debt from his daughter’s illness and a marriage on the verge of collapse, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman. Surprised by his penchant for violence, Mario agrees to one last job: to steal a cartel’s cash shipment before it arrives in Mexico. Mario sets off across Texas with an old friend and a cartel insider in a nightmarish mission that will change all involved.
The Cartographers
Peng Shepherd
Like her estranged father before her, Nell Young’s true passion is cartography. Nell hasn’t spoken to her father since a strange fight over a gas station map led to him firing her and ruining her reputation. When he is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library, Nell must divide into the mystery of that same map. Someone has been destroying every copy of the map, trying to hide a dark secret about the true power of maps.
Sign Here
Claudia Lux
In Hell, Peyote Trip has a good job in the Deals Department. But if he can get one member of the Harrison family to sell his soul, he is in line for a big promotion. When the Harrisons spend the summer at the family’s lake house, Peyote sees it has his best chance. As old secrets are revealed, Peyote and the Harrisons learn that things are not as they seem.
Thistlefoot
gennaRose Nethercott
When they learn they’ve been left a shared inheritance, estranged siblings Bellatine and Isaac Yaga finally reunite. Instead of land or money, they’ve been left a sentient house on chicken legs: Thistlefoot. When the Yaga siblings set out on a cross-country tour of the family’s traveling show, a shadowy figure pursues them, bringing with him dark memories from the family’s past.
Young Adult
Foul Lady Fortune
Chloe Gong
In a spinoff of her bestseller These Violent Delights, Chloe Gong returns to 1930s Shanghai with a tale of dueling spies. After an experiment makes her ageless and immortal, Rosalind Chang becomes a spy for her country hoping to redeem her traitorous past. When the Japanese are suspected of a series of murders, Rosalind must go undercover posing as the wife of another spy to investigate a series of murders.
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the war broke out in Syria. Although she loves her home country, Salama is desperate to escape before her sister-in-law gives birth. Volunteering at a hospital treating scores of injured people, Salama’s anxieties are embodied by her imaginary companion Khwaf. Yet, a fated meeting with a boy makes Salama question her desire to leave. For what if this dreaded war is actually a long-awaited revolution?
Nonfiction Books
Bittersweet
Susan Cain
After showing the power of introverts in Quiet, Susan Cain uses the same mix of science and storytelling to explore what bittersweet feelings of sorrow and longing can teach us about creativity, compassionate leadership, and love. Cain shows that bittersweetness isn’t just a fleeting emotion but a powerful way of being that can lead to transcendence.
Tell Me Everything
Erika Krouse
Part memoir, part true crime, Tell Me Everything takes you into the investigation of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the woman who helped uncover it. When she accepts a new job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator, Erika Krouse feels way over her head. When asked to look into the case of a female student attacked by college football players, Erika’s own history of sexual violence makes the case hit close to home. As she spends years investigating and as the case gains immense national coverage, Krouse’s career and personal life implode at the same time, leaving her struggling to rise above the mess.
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