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“Great books have always helped me figure out who I am and what I believe. The six books featured in this series have stayed with me throughout my life, and each one has something to teach us about the human experience. For this podcast, I invited some friends to explore why they resonate, how they

In Laila Lalami’s chilling novel The Dream Hotel, Sara Hussein is detained by representatives from the Risk Assessment Administration, an organization that uses data from dreams to scrutinize the habits of private individuals. The agents—convinced that Sara is going to carry out a deadly crime—take her to an internment facility for women. Innocent of any

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Matt Baker takes readers to scenic Capri in his cozy culinary mystery, A Taste for Murder. Still reeling from the unexpected loss of his wife, Sofia, Detective Chief Inspector Joe Mottrom takes his teenage daughter, Angelica, to Capri to spend the summer with Sofia’s parents. Maybe in Italy, the pair can begin healing and find

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“How did I manage to change from a regular girl into an immigrant with an accent?” writes Yevgenia Nayberg in the author’s note of her playful new picture book, Another Tongue. “Life is full of surprises!” she adds, noting how incomprehensible English was when she first came to the United States at age 19. Born

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The first few days in a new school are always a little stressful and a little exciting, but, in Who Knows the Way to Mr. Grimly’s Classroom?, they’re also quite intriguing and strange. In her first week at her new school, Grace, who “always put[s] her hand up in class,” confidently volunteers to return a

The New York Times asked hundreds of bookish people—which included librarians, booksellers, editors, bookstagrammers, and crime writers (among them Freida McFadden, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Alyssa Cole, and Stephen King)—what the best 10 thrillers published since 2000 were. The resulting list of 50 books spans countries and time lines, is populated by bestsellers like Tana

★ My Inner Child Wants to Kill A few months back, I had the double pleasure of reading Karsten Dusse’s Murder Mindfully while concurrently bingeing Netflix’s TV series based on the book. Both were comically macabre, and I am happy to report that the follow-up, My Inner Child Wants to Kill, also translated by Florian

Goodreads’ selection of the biggest fall debut novels includes a mix of familiar names and newcomers, and a variety of genres and categories, making for an exciting season of discovery. These books hitting U.S. shelves August through early December include three big names—one from an unexpected space: Trying to fit more global settings into your

Kindergarten Gets Ready is an exemplary back-to-school book with a clever focus: what happens as a teacher prepares his classroom before the school year starts. After Mr. Bee bikes to school, he opens up his dark, deserted room, where he sees stacks of chairs and boxes of supplies. Naomi Danis’ text is simple and straightforward,

Even in a historically slow publishing month—which August tends to be—there are still more new books than any reader can possibly make time for. Goodreads has combined early reviews and data about titles users are adding to their “Want to Read” shelves to identify some of the most-anticipated books of the month. Where the algorithm

Honor & Heresy While his country wages a relentless war, scholar Roy Dawnseve is offered an alternative to enlisting as a soldier: Alongside the irritating but talented Percival Atherton, he must research Northgard’s ancient enemies in a mystical and harrowing library. Max Francis’ debut, Honor & Heresy, throws readers into its vast and detailed world

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Elizabeth Lim’s dual-timeline historical fantasy, Fishbone Cinderella, follows three generations of women who must navigate heartbreak, secrets and a curse in order to heal as a family. Ha Yut Ying grows up during the 1940s Japanese occupation of China and is sent to her estranged father in Hong Kong by her mother, Lei Yuk Fong,

Every month, the Unusual Suspects newsletter has a roundup of the best mystery, thriller, and true crime books out that month. But not every mystery reader is a thriller fan, and vice versa. Now that we’re halfway through the year, I’ve combined all of the mystery books on those lists into a collection: The Best

Norah Sullivan gains the power to manipulate probability—also called “navigation”—the same day she and her father are attacked by flickerbeasts, whose bites increase their likelihood of dying a horrifying death. Because Norah was only bitten once, she is able to manage the slow mystical effect of the attack; however, her father quickly becomes ill after

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As a young girl in 1940s China, Yut Ying realizes she has the power to turn invisible. This power helps her survive the abusive household of her father and stepmother in Hong Kong, but 40 years later, she is at risk of disappearing altogether. Yut Ying’s daughter, Marigold, must uncover her mother’s past in order

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At the start of Christine Hartman Derr’s wonderfully empowering debut, Raven, Rising, Raven Miller is indeed at a low point. Her parents recently died in an accident for which she feels responsible, and she and her Aunt Coral have just moved to Bear Creek Falls, where she is immediately tortured by a popular girl, Stella.

AI is already everywhere, and readers may not be as good at detecting it as we think we are. Using AI-detection tool Pangram, researchers from Stony Brook University found that one in five of the 14,000 randomly selected Kindle ebooks in their data set contained more than 25% AI-generated text. Particularly notable is the finding,

Bestselling author Carissa Broadbent returns to her Crowns of Nyaxia series with The Lion and the Deathless Dark, the first in a new duology. It’s a fine entry point into Broadbent’s backlist of interlinked stories set in the same world, though it may be a richer experience for readers who have started at the beginning,

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In the opening scene of Furious Violet, true crime writer Violet “West” Shelley wakes up in a pool of blood in a hotel in Salt Lake City, where she has been conducting final interviews for her book about a cold case murderer known as the Crying Killer. Sarai Walker certainly knows how to draw readers

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In her bold debut, Dietland, Sarai Walker took on the beauty industry, gender equality and America’s weight loss obsession, all in one deliciously funny, skewering bite. With her sophomore effort, The Cherry Robbers, Walker put a twisted feminist spin on gothic novels in a story about the lone survivor in a family of six cursed