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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.

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The Bookies

Joan Kingsley tells us about The Bookies, a book club she formed at the First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay in Long Island, New York.

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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 ...

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The Jellyfish Problem

by Tessa Yang

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

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...

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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...

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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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 ...

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue.

Skull Water
Skull Water

by Heinz Insu Fenkl

The Secret Book of Flora Lea
The Secret Book of Flora Lea

by Patti Callahan Henry

Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

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

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.

Tilt

by Emma Pattee

Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety.

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 ...

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 Young Will Remember

"A deeply human, woman-centered story set in the Korean War, following a correspondent who finds herself in enemy territory."

Eve J. Chung's Daughters of Shandong was the winner of the BookBrowse Debut Book Award in 2024, and was also a popular BookBrowse Book Club and First Impressions selection. The Young Will Remember has likewise been a hit with our readers, with 24 out...

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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 ...

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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.

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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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...

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