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Author of Contrapposto

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Summer's Never Over

by Darby Bozeman

A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.

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A Pair of Aces

by Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray

Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.

Soft Core

by Brittany Newell

A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell's savage, tender Soft Core.

The Swimmers
The Swimmers

by Julie Otsuka

Tom Lake
Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

Holy City
Holy City

by Henry Wise

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Fieldwork

by Mischa Berlinski

A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and an obsessed young reporter named Mischa Berlinski.

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Baby in a Box

"In Sarah Braunstein's compelling short stories, complicated relationships push characters to confront their fears about parenting and betrayal."

Sarah Braunstein's third book, the short story collection Baby in a Box, is reminiscent of Jami Attenberg and Lauren Groff with its themes of dysfunctional families and anxieties over parenthood. Past and present mingle as the characters ponder ...

Prophecy

"Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz explores the ethics of prediction, drawing on historical examples and a magnetic writing style to make the case for caution in the age of AI."

It's difficult to overstate how much of our daily life is shaped by prediction. From the mundane (checking the weather before getting dressed; deciding which route to take to work to avoid traffic) to the massive (credit scores; election polling) ...

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Legendary Frybread Drive-In

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"A Community I Barely Knew"

People sometimes interpret reading books from minority cultures as virtue signaling, but I see it as an essential way to genuinely learn about communities I wouldn't otherwise encounter. With only two...

The Jellyfish Problem

by Tessa Yang

A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.

The River Is Waiting

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after...

Whistler

"Ann Patchett returns to themes of family and memory in her beautiful, character-driven novel."

Whistler, Ann Patchett's tenth novel (after 2023's Tom Lake) begins with a chance encounter. Fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller and her husband, Jonathan, are enjoying a quiet Saturday at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art when ...

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

"While researching a Tudor-era mystic and the women around her, a historian stumbles into a legendary treasure hunt and must puzzle out clues from centuries ago."

From the very beginning of The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton, the two heroines—the titular Elizabeth and Dr. Alison Sage, a modern-day historian who studies Elizabeth's life as a mystic—both face imminent death, albeit in two entirely ...

The Reimagining of Thornwood House

by Jaleigh Johnson

A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.

Odessa

"The horrors of the pogroms in the historical Russian Empire are reimagined through the lens of Jewish folklore in this haunting tale of resistance, autonomy, and survival."

Blending history with magical realism, Gabrielle Sher's debut novel Odessa takes place in the early 20th century Russian Empire during the pogroms, a series of government authorized attacks on Jewish communities throughout the empire. We follow Yetta...

Feast

by Catherine Kurtz

In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.

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June 10, 2026

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown, Whistler by Ann Patchett, and The ...

May 24, 2026

Well-Read Black Girl Books & More: Diversity Projects in Publishing

Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...

Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.

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American Han

"Lisa Lee explores the Korean American experience through the eyes of Jane, a floundering law student struggling to live up to her parents' expectations. When her brother commits a horrific act, family tensions resurface."

The Korean word "han" is generally defined as a feeling that encapsulates sorrow, resentment, grief, and loss of identity. Han is born from years of systemic suffering—occupation, war, displacement—and seeps into the daily lives of ...

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