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Iron Flame (The Empyrean #2) By Rebecca Yarros Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781649374172
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Published: Entangled: Red Tower Books - November 7th, 2023

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Bright Lights, Big Christmas: A Novel By Mary Kay Andrews Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9781250285812
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Published: St. Martin's Press - September 26th, 2023

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Starling House By Alix E. Harrow Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250799050
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Published: Tor Books - October 3rd, 2023

Starling House is presented as a gothic horror, and it is, sort of: while it isn't frightening in the monstrous way, its chills brush up against the frightening topics of generational trauma, poverty in late-stage capitalism, and the worst of Southern culture. Opal is an opportunistic thief trying to pay for her brilliant little brother's education; when she is offered a job cleaning the mysterious Starling House by a caretaker described as "intense" and "ugly," you know exactly where this is going: a love story, skeletons in the closet brought to the light, and catastrophic danger. It reminded me of all my favorite gothic tropes: the mysterious and tortured gentleman, the canny and terrified woman with a secret, the house that looms like a menacing character all of its own. I'd classify this readily as "cozy horror": it brushes along the aesthetic without actually descending into them. I very much enjoyed this one. — Whitney, Snail Readers Circle


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House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City #3) By Sarah J. Maas Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9781635574104
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - January 30th, 2024

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond By Henry Winkler Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781250888099
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Published: Celadon Books - October 31st, 2023

Day: A Novel By Michael Cunningham Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780399591341
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Published: Random House - November 14th, 2023

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Death Valley: A Novel By Melissa Broder Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781668024843
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Published: Scribner - October 3rd, 2023

Having read and enjoyed Broder's Pisces several years ago, I was pretty sure I knew what I was getting into with Death Valley: a hallucinogenic piece with a troubled main character behaving badly. I wasn't off the mark. "Death Valley" features hallucinations and a somewhat self-interested main character - but this one also features a brittle emotional heart that is as sincere as it is effective. A meditation on grief, Death Valley takes Broder's stranger impulses as a writer and harnesses them in service to a caretaker who needs a break — and gets a nightmare of one lost in the desert. I loved this book because the main character was extremely relatable amidst a plot that's metaphorical enough you're never quite sure what's actually happening and what's being hallucinated. — Whitney, Snail Readers Circle


Let Us Descend: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982104498
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Published: Scribner - October 24th, 2023

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education By Stephanie Land Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982151393
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Published: Atria/One Signal Publishers - November 7th, 2023

The Last Exchange By Charles Martin Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780785255970
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Published: Thomas Nelson - October 3rd, 2023

Our Strangers: Stories By Lydia Davis Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9798987717103
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Published: Bookshop Editions - October 3rd, 2023

The Unsettled: A novel By Ayana Mathis Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525519935
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Published: Knopf - September 26th, 2023

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Midnight Is the Darkest Hour: A Novel By Ashley Winstead Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781728269962
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - October 3rd, 2023

"Midnight Is the Darkest Hour" is a humid, thoughtful, mean-spirited thriller aimed at religious hypocrisy and misogyny. It's complex — I was never quite sure I was rooting for the right person — and more interested in character work than in planting twists. The time spent getting to know the main character paid off beautifully; I was deeply invested in the choices she made along the way, even if I disagreed with them, and the vibe is something along the lines of "Thelma and Louise" meets "Dexter". This is a book I'm going to think about for a long time. — Whitney, Snail Readers Circle


Enchanted Hill By Emily Bain Murphy Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781454949817
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Published: Union Square & Co. - November 7th, 2023

The Witching Tide: A Novel By Margaret Meyer Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668011362
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2023

The Museum of Failures By Thrity Umrigar Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781643753553
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Published: Algonquin Books - September 26th, 2023

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What We Kept to Ourselves: A Novel By Nancy Jooyoun Kim Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668004821
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Published: Atria Books - October 10th, 2023

I loved it because the characters were flawed and real and beautiful. No one was one-dimensional, and the plot was perfectly paced. I couldn't put it down. A story about the immigrant experience, America's treatment of veterans, but mostly a story about families and relationships and connections that supercede social norms. Every character I both loved and was frustrated with, which made them feel like my own family and friends. —Sarah Catherine, Snail Readers Circle