The Literary Lookbook for January-May 2025 is live! This is a comprehensive but not exhaustive collection of 584 upcoming 2025 releases curated by @kellyhook.readsbooks and @thoughtsfromapage. The Lookbook includes titles releasing January-May 2025 from a variety of genres and features cover designs organized by publication date. Click on this link to purchase it.

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of July - October 2024

Kelly Hooker - Our Favorite Books of July - October 2024

In this episode, Kelly and I chat about our favorite books that published in July through early October 2024.

Our shared top reads:

The Wedding People by Alison Espach 

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman


Kelly’s remaining top reads:

The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella 

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne

The Best Lies by David Ellis 

Worst Case Scenario by T.J. Newman 

The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey 

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston 

Exposure by Ava Dellaira 

The Sing Sing Files by Dan Slepian 

The Small and The Mighty by Sharon McMahon 


Cindy’s remaining top reads:

May the Wolf Die by Elizabeth Heider

The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

The Family Experiment by John Marrs

The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

Maria by Michelle Moran

Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding

The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley

The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

The Fabled Earth by Kimberly Brock


Want to know which new titles are publishing in January - May of 2025? Check out our third Literary Lookbook which contains a comprehensive but not exhaustive list all in one place so you can plan ahead.     

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