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Entangled States

"Karmela Padavic-Callaghan's debut book Entangled States explores identity, memory, and uncertainty through physics, blending quantum mechanics with a deeply personal memoir."

Entangled States: A Life According to Quantum Physics is not your typical pop-sci book. Authored by Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, a science journalist and writer who has worked with major magazines like New Scientist, it beautifully blends quantum ...

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Puck

"Samantha Allen reimagines a classic Shakespearean comedy for the age of reality television in this clever, funny novel."

Unlike the Puck in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who is a mischievous servant of the Fairy King, Samantha Allen's Puck is a producer on a reality show. Puck's boss is not Oberon but Ron, the executive producer of Homewreckers, a dating show...

Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

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

Chelsea Girls

by Catherine Lloyd

A glamorous biographical novel on Mary Quant, whose daring design of the miniskirt revolutionized fashion.

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Dave Eggers

Author of Contrapposto

A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.

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June 24, 2026

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Land by Maggie O'Farrell, Earth 7 by Deb Olin Unferth, and Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. We ...

Meet Me at the Crossroads

"A young woman grapples with loss after her twin sister goes missing in a mysterious spiritual realm."

When the parents of twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia divorce, each takes primary custody of one daughter. Though both girls are growing up Black in the Midwest, their upbringings could not be more different. Their mother raises Olivia as a devout ...

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The Help

by Kathryn Stockett

Winner of BookBrowse's 2009 Reader Awards. Three extraordinary women start a movement that forever changes a small town in 1960s Mississippi, and the way women — mothers, daughters, caregivers, ...

We Could Be Anyone

"A brother and sister make a living conducting Spiritualist hoaxes, but the tables are turned when they discover a real mystery at The Coterie."

As soon as I finished We Could Be Anyone I grabbed my phone to text three friends who love YA fantasy. "You will love this. Trust me," I wrote to each. One asked what it was about: "A brother and sister stage fake hauntings at fancy hotels and then ...

The Compound

Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.

Crux

by Gabriel Tallent

In this story of intense friendship and grit, two down-and-out teens escape their lives and chase a different future through rock-climbing -- from the New York Times bestselling author of My Absolute ...

Land

"During the Ordnance Survey of the 1800s, Tomás and his son Liam have left their home in Dublin to map a remote peninsula of Ireland. When Tomás has an unsettling encounter in a copse, Liam is unnerved by the change in his father."

On a remote peninsula in 1865, Tomás and his son Liam are surveying the land, as a part of the British Ordnance Survey—an organized effort to map the whole of Ireland. The taciturn Tomás is a trained surveyor, having worked his way up...

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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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Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

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One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

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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 ...

Days of Sun and Shadow

by India Hayford

A young woman’s coming-of-age story set in the early American frontier, shaped by tragedy, nature, and resilience.

The Antidote
The Antidote

by Karen Russell

Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us

by Dinaw Mengestu

Buckeye
Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan

Summer of Love

by Kerri Maher

Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.

All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker

"An Intense, Pressure-Pounding Thriller/Mystery That Is Grounded with Compassion and Caring"

This psychological thriller by Chris Whitaker is by turns frightening and gentle, heartbreaking and heartwarming. It reached out and grabbed my heart (and sometimes my throat) and wouldn't let go. ...

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