Haunted by a killer lie from their youth, a group of friends begins to unravel when one member starts asking questions.

What Lies in the Woods

This absolute charmer follows Molly Gray as she tries to solve the murder at her hotel before anyone pins it on her.

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The Maid

With her life in free fall, a young woman wishes for a redo year...and wakes to find to her surprise the wish granted.

The Second Chance Year

All is chaos when the gods are at war, but two rival journalists with a magical connection may hold the key to peace.

Divine Rivals

A woman in the pursuit of happiness is caught in a time loop in this holiday rom-com brimming with yuletide cheer.

In a Holidaze

Speaking to the resilience of the human spirit in even the hardest of circumstances—a beacon of hope for our times.

The Choice

This novel has the perfect molecular structure: a charming protagonist, humor, a lovable dog, and feminist bonafides.

Lessons in Chemistry

Cozy up with this delightful holiday tale as old as time: boy meets girl, girl meets boy’s sister (who she loves).

Kiss Her Once for Me

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In this follow-up to <a href=the-maid-1144>The Maid</a>, Molly Gray may need some help to solve the murder of an acclaimed author at the hotel.

The Mystery Guest 

While juggling writer’s block and suffrage activism, an Oxford woman finds her priorities challenged by a new scholar.

The Gentleman’s Gambit

Come hang out, we’re queering Camelot. Sword fighting, found family, and first love—all the medieval hijinks are here!

Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

A Maine midwife proves herself a tenacious advocate for justice when a local man with a few secrets is put on trial.

The Frozen River

Peeking beneath the pleasant veneer of a wealthy suburb, a twisty exploration of the fraught bonds between mothers.

The Other Mothers

They say timing is everything. Well, two childhood friends who had to wait twenty years for their due would like a word.

Five Years From Now

Posing urgent questions about female friendships and romance, the story of a transgressive affair in ’90s-era Berkeley.

Alice Sadie Celine

In Ali Hazelwood’s YA debut, chess rivals play major gambits with each other’s hearts and minds on and off the board.

Check & Mate

From the author of The Power, a bracing new dystopian novel about a near-future riven by inequality and climate change.

The Future

From the beloved author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a new epic fantasy about power, responsibility, and fate.

The Fragile Threads of Power

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This delicious rom-com has all the right ingredients: secret family recipes, holiday vibes, and a big pinch of love.

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A Winter in New York 

Buckle up for a dark and strange ride! This wicked rewrite of The Nutcracker has a couple surprises up its sleeves.

The Kingdom of Sweets

Small-town secrets and family tensions are unleashed when a married couple moves into an old home with a bloody past.

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No One Can Know

Part family drama, part war epic—this harrowing, emotionally riveting debut depicts the havoc wreaked in WWII Malaya.

The Storm We Made

Brimming with warmth and vibrancy, this beautiful debut collection of stories asks sharp questions about modern life.

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Tomb Sweeping

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If you’ve ever identified with Indiana Jones, you must read this lush and fantastical romp through 19th-century Egypt.

What the River Knows

Are you mission-ready? This hard-nosed, globetrotting espionage story will leave you questioning everything around you.

The Helsinki Affair

Let those tears flow! You will be quickly won over by this widowed single mom learning to let love back into her heart.

The Last Love Note

In this moving paean to storytelling, an old man regales his nursing assistant with tales that blur fact and fantasy.

Again and Again

Be careful what you wish for: an attempted memory wipe of a bad ex leaves a young woman a stranger to her best friend.

This Spells Love

Haunting and haunted, this is the powerful story of an enslaved girl seeking redemption with the help of her ancestors.

Let Us Descend

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Real-world celebrity gossip pales in comparison to the glamorous life—and loves—of the silver screen star Evelyn Hugo.

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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Two doctors unlucky in love realize romance may still be in the cards—literally—when they start writing to each other.

Yours Truly

Following a shattering tour in the Vietnam War, Ernt Allbright attempts a fresh start by moving his family to Alaska, where they encounter old demons and new challenges on the last American frontier.

The Great Alone

After a fake relationship generates real sparks, a rising scientist must decide if she's ready to experiment with love.

The Love Hypothesis

Follow the meandering, funny, and heartbreaking adventures of a young Irishman searching for belonging.

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The Heart's Invisible Furies

This charming story of an unlikely small-town romance will have you swooning and firmly reassured love can conquer all.

Part of Your World

From suburban soccer mom to convicted felon to bestselling ghostwriter, her remarkable true story is totally riveting.

The Many Lives of Mama Love

A life of immortality is not all it’s cracked up to be when no one remembers who you are. That is, until someone does.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Nothing like a &quot;friendly&quot; writing competition to set the scene for some quirky, cute, inter-author love.

Beach Read

The moving story of a fiercely protective nurse who will stop at nothing to get justice for the girls in her charge.

Take My Hand

A hopeful coming-of-age, where a young Nigerian woman strives to finish her education and live the life she wants.

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Three generations of women weigh family duty and desire in a conservative Palestinian community in Brooklyn.

A Woman Is No Man

From the author of Still Me, a nod to the strong af women who ran a traveling library in 1930s rural Kentucky.

The Giver of Stars

From the Texas plains to the California coast, this Depression-era tale follows a family striving for a better life.

The Four Winds

Drugs, sex, and rock 'n’ roll, from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Daisy Jones & The Six

A sumptuous tale about female friendship and leadership in 15th-century China, challenging women’s place in society.

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

The author doesn't just build a world: he builds a whole multiverse, with a very singular love story at its core.

Dark Matter

A coming-of-age odyssey that'll leave you in awe of the rawness of the Great Depression and the American Midwest.

This Tender Land

A midwestern town descends into chaos after a shocking murder in this lyrical tale from the author of This Tender Land.

The River We Remember

This moving, transportive story follows four bookish souls competing for a rare book from their favorite author.

The Wishing Game

The adorable frenemy-turned-lover romance you wish the Royals and First Family were mixed up in. Maybe one day. Sigh.

Red, White & Royal Blue

This powerful story tracks the journey to self-discovery and hope of a young Syrian woman whose life is upended by war.

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

A podcaster and her subject’s lives become increasingly intertwined in this twisty tale where fact and fiction compete.

None of This Is True

In this epic follow-up to Ninth House, Alex Stern thinks one can just casually go to hell and bring friends back . . .

Hell Bent

Protect and serve, that’s the job. But in this witty romance, the real question is whose heart needs protecting?

The Bodyguard

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The best British holiday meet cute since Love Actually.

One Day in December

In this epic adventure, two estranged sisters bear the weighty responsibility to protect their magical family library.

Ink Blood Sister Scribe

A dilapidated Florida mansion is more than a home in this multigenerational story of Vietnamese mothers and daughters.

Banyan Moon

Prepare to shed a couple tears for this moving, inspirational story about a death doula learning not to fear living.

The Collected Regrets of Clover

Brimming with wisdom, a moving story of two siblings who wend their way to reconciliation after losing their mother.

Black Cake

Prepare to have a big bite taken out of your heart by this lyrical meditation on marriage, grief, and carnivorous fish.

Shark Heart

Let your faith in love be renewed by a commitment-phobe and hopeless romantic who go from enemies to friends to lovers.

You, Again

All the world’s a stage in this moving WWII story about a traveling circus and finding your path in dark times.

The Circus Train

When a serial killer emerges with an eerily familiar pattern, Chloe Davis wonders if she's really escaped her past.

A Flicker in the Dark

A whip-smart, entertaining tale of one assistant's dawning realization that her dream job is anything but.

The Other Black Girl

An ode to the natural world and female power, this lush, generation-spanning novel is equal parts daring and inspiring.

Weyward

House on chicken legs + girl who can bring inanimate objects to life + prophecy foretold adds up to a perfect fantasy.

Thistlefoot

A nightmarish look at what happens when a mother's little bundle of joy becomes her greatest source of fear.

The Push

In this grand Indian tale—part crime story, part family saga—everyone is at risk from the corrupting gravity of greed.

Age of Vice

Forget healing salves or soothing tinctures. This apothecary specializes in one thing: helping women fight back.

The Lost Apothecary

An unexpected pregnancy pushes a married couple into a raw and emotional exploration of what it is they truly want.

Rootless

One woman’s decision to pass as white reverberates through generations in this riveting exploration of race and fame.

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Singed by New York’s melting pot, an immigrant family continues to fight movingly for a piece of the American Dream.

Paper Names

This big-hearted story of an Irish-American family is for anyone who's ever left home only to be drawn back again.

We Are the Brennans

This raw, wrenching exploration of a toxic relationship and its aftermath doubles as an ode to the power of self-love.

Adelaide

Coming of age is hard work but this heartwarming story of self-discovery has plenty of laughs and wisdom to spare too.

Maame

Brooklyn’s 1% is put under the microscope in this sharp, vibrant exploration of what happens to a trust fund deferred.

Pineapple Street

This epic story weaves one family’s tragic splintering into the larger tapestry of Russia’s turbulent 20th century.

The Last Russian Doll

The gripping story of an Ojibwe girl who risks all to go undercover and stop those trying to tear her community apart.

Firekeeper's Daughter

Pro-tip: read the fine print before a writer’s retreat lest you end up stuck with a kooky horror writer &amp; your ex-BFF.

The Writing Retreat

Two siblings vie for the American dream until Hurricane Maria drags their estranged mother back into their lives.

Olga Dies Dreaming

This young adult take on Romeo and Juliet includes forbidden love, feuding families, and a plague on everyone's houses.

These Violent Delights

Revenge is a dish best served with champagne! And on this remote tropical island, it’s the only thing on the menu . . .

She Started It

Peyote Trip has a job from hell literally. But this Spooky Season he could be due for a devilishly big promotion...

Sign Here

A vibrant memoir of heritage—cultural, culinary, and otherwise—rediscovered in the wake of a shattering loss.

Crying in H Mart

What would you do if the house you just moved into turned out to be haunted? We’re talking some properly gothic stuff.

The Hacienda

A sharp, vibrant debut collection about Cambodian Americans trying to carve out a new path in their adopted home.

Afterparties

A moving memoir filtered through a child's eyes about a Chinese family struggling in the shadow of the American dream.

Beautiful Country

An up-close and personal behind-the-scenes look at the culinary and cultural adventures of Anthony Bourdain.

In the Weeds

While helping clients achieve #RelationshipGoals, two matchmakers learn the most amazing love story may be their own.

Lunar Love

Why should boys have all the fun? In this epic tale that pulls heartstrings, Kaikeyi fights for her place in history.

Kaikeyi

A mother’s love knows no bounds in this gripping story of a formerly enslaved woman’s search for her stolen children.

River Sing Me Home

Like a certain famous lamp, this novel will grant wishes for a perfect fantasy with dark magic and a dangerous quest.

The Stardust Thief

This delicious queer rom-com proves that like the best meals, true love is hard work, a bit messy, but oh-so-rewarding.

Love & Other Disasters

Misleading omens and untrustworthy figures abound in this chilling tale about a couple who move into a murder house.

The Stranger Upstairs

A little feminist, a little romantic, but mostly just fun—and downright dirty on top of that. Yes, please.

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