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Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

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

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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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Masquerade

by O.O. Sangoyomi

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go ...

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.

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 ...

Porcupines

"A charming dual-timeline story set in Hungary and America, about a young mother and her curious daughter."

Fran Fabriczki's debut novel, Porcupines, is a dual-timeline story set between 2001 and the 1980s. In the later timeline, in Los Angeles, Sonia is a single mother to her ten-year-old daughter, Mila. Sonia and Mila have a close relationship, as their ...

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...

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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.

A Gorgeous Excitement

by Cynthia Weiner

A dazzling novel about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility...

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 ...

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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...

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 ...

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 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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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.

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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Author of Contrapposto

A conversation with Dave Eggers on Contrapposto.

Black Bear
Black Bear

by Trina Moyles

The Last Animal
The Last Animal

by Ramona Ausubel

Unlikely Animals
Unlikely Animals

by Annie Hartnett

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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