Book reviews and other bookish things
Genre: YA, Queer Horror Published by: PUSH Publish date: September 16, 2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.ryanlasala.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two Days Before Ollie Veltman is finally coming home to the quaint island of Anchor’s Mercy after a year away while his mom battled cancer. It should be a celebration …
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https://www.dylinhardcastle.com/ Genre: Literary Fiction, LBGTQ+ Published by: Dutton Publish date: June 03, 2025 Number of pages: 304 pages Author’s website: https://www.dylinhardcastle.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A breathtaking, sliding-doors, will-they-won’t-they love story and a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community and how joy is found in even the …
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Genre: Romance Published by: Forever Publish date: May 20, 2025 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://www.nishajtuli.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Two workplace enemies find themselves in close proximity on a tropical company retreat that challenges their assumptions--and just might make them to fall for each other--in this romcom by a by a …
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Genre: Thriller, Romance Published by: Berkley Publish date: April 29, 2025 Number of pages: 384 pages Author’s website: https://www.kateposey.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! What would you do if you thought your coworker was getting away with murder—literally? Dolores dela Cruz has been dying to spot one in the wild, and he fits the mold …
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Lula King Photo & Film Genre: Memoir Published by: Pegasus Books Publish date: April 1, 2025 Number of pages: pages Author’s website: https://www.rachelphan.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A warm and poignant narrative about finding one’s self amidst the grind of restaurant life, the cross-generational immigrant experience, and a daughter’s attempts to connect with parents …
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Genre: Romance Published by: Forever, Grand Central Publishing Publish date: May 13, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://kennedyryanwrites.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Hendrix Barry lives a fabulous life. She has phenomenal friends, a loving family, and a thriving business that places her in the entertainment industry's rarefied air. Your vision board? …
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https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Genre: YA Fiction Horror Published by: Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Publish date: 04/22/2025 Number of pages: 400 pages Author’s website: https://www.maikaandmaritza.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Just add lemon, garlic, and a dash of the one percent.This smart, biting novel explores what happens when a Haitian American girl uses her previously hidden zombie …
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Genre: Thriller, LGBTQIA+ Published by: William Morrow Publish date: 18 March 2025 Number of pages: 320 pages Author’s website: https://www.hannahdeitch.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Darkly funny and provocative, this edge-of-your-seat thrill ride follows two unlikely fugitives—an SAT tutor who finds her rich employers brutally murdered and the bound woman she frees from their mansion—an …
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Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction Published by: Saga Press Publish date: Mar 18, 2025 Number of pages: 448 pages Author’s website: https://www.demontheory.net/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A chilling historical horror novel set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the …
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Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …
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