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Summer of Love

by Kerri Maher

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

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...

Penguin edition - Briggs translation - Black cover w/ chandelier: Volume 1, Part II, chapters 1-21, 96 pp. Signet edition - Dunnigan translation - tan cover w/ flag: Book 1, Part II, chapters 1-21,...

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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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The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves
A female cop with her first big case
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The Compound

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

Endling

"Maria Reva breaks the fourth wall in her novel about Ukrainian romance tours."

Maria Reva's debut novel Endling follows a group of Ukrainian women involved in "romance tours"—a cultural phenomenon akin to the mail-order bride system in which men from around the world come to meet Ukrainian women with the goal of marriage....

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The members of the Girls' Night In Book Club in the Washington DC area are an eclectic bunch of women with a shared love of books. They particularly ...

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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…

Chelsea Girls

by Catherine Lloyd

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

Sea of Tranquility
Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

The White Lady
The White Lady

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The Foursome

"When Sarah and her sister marry the original "Siamese twins" in the antebellum South and become a scandalous foursome, Sarah must navigate the judgement of others, her complex marriage, and her changing views."

Sarah Yates's prospects are grim. After falling pregnant out of wedlock and losing the baby, her reputation, as well as that of her sister, Adelaide, has been ruined. So when conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker—the original "Siamese twins," so...

Contrapposto

"At times funny, at times moving, Contrapposto describes the lifelong friendship between two artists."

Contrapposto, Italian for "counterpose," is an artistic technique in which most of the subject's weight is shifted to one foot, causing the figure's hips and shoulders to ride at opposing angles and resulting in an appealing S-...

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 ...

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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 ...

Somebody Worth Killing

by Jessica Payne

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Heat Will Kill You First

by Jeff Goodell

"Fascinating and Frightening: Why Our Planet Is Heating Up and What That Means—for This Summer and the Future"

Stephen King, move over. This book is far more frightening than anything you could write. It's not only a dire warning for the future, but also for today. I read this book during a newsworthy, week-...

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