Your Next Favorite Read
Stranger Things star and Emmy Award-nominated actress and producer Millie Bobby Brown draws on family history in her debut WWII novel, Nineteen Steps. The Blitz starts September 12.
Are the local apples enchanted — or diabolical — in Black River Orchard by suspense master Chuck Wendig? The die is cast Sept. 26.
A celebrity’s body is found offshore, setting off rumors and a pair of murders in Ann Cleeves’ The Raging Storm. Thriller author Jodé Millman reviews on BookTrib.
A disgraced soccer executive looks for love and redemption in the middle of nowhere in The Long Gameby Elena Armas. BookTrib talks BookTok fame, romance and rom-com with Armas.
Good Morning America Book Club pick Happiness Falls is a poignant and powerfully written novel by Angie Kim. Catch the review on BookTrib.
Top of the Charts and our TBRs
Beach season might be over for the year, but reading season never ends. Here are a few of the new books just hitting the charts that have made their way onto our TBRs.
#1 USA Today: Hannah Nicole Maehrer’s viral TikTok series shapeshifts into the novel, Assistant to the Villian. Can love prevail amid assassination attempts, severed heads and giant rats?
#2 New York Times: Archeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson are back in Dead Mountain by Preston & Child.
#3 USA Today: Book 4 in the wildly popular Inheritance Games series, The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is topping all the charts.
Four Bad Apples for the Teacher
School is back in session and who doesn’t love an institution on the dark side? The conflict. The competition. The camaraderie. The cruelty. Here are a few to read between classes.
Toxic plasticity mixes with dark comedy in this devastating thriller about a sorority girl with a thing for disposing of handsome college boys in Kill for Love by Laura Picklesimer. Learning is murder September 12.
In This is How We End Things by RJ Jacobs, a quintet of grad students exploring the science of deception are snowbound on an abandoned campus and someone winds up dead. Exams start September 12.
An act of translation is an act of betrayal. Orphaned in Canton and trained in London, Robin Swift is being taught languages to ready him for Oxford to study translation — and silver magic — in R.F. Kuang’s phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, Babel.
BookTok adores the saga of the exceptional magicians who fight for their place in the Alexandrian Society in The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Surviving initiation was just the beginning of the trilogy. The Alexandrians returned in The Atlas Paradox, and the trilogy will conclude with the hotly anticipated finale, The Atlas Complex in January 2024.
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