The deadline for the June LibraryReads list is fast approaching and there is a plethora of fantastic books to read. Below, you can learn about several that the Library Love Fest team is extremely excited about. We hope you dip in and love them as much we love them. If you do, please remember to leave a review on Edelweiss and submit your review to LibraryReads! Click here to learn more about LibraryReads. The voting deadline is April 20th!
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Bearskin by James McLaughlin
Bearskin is a hard-hitting and visceral thriller about a caretaker of an Appalachian nature preserve who also happens to be on the run from a Mexican drug cartel. This debut has more awe-inspiring and lyrical "OH WOW" moments than anything I've read in recent memory. I think #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box sums it up best: "…filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed…. [Bearskin is] a powerful debut and an absolute showcase of exceptional prose. There are very few first novels when I feel compelled to circle brilliant passages."
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
Left by Mary Hogan
This novel from the critically acclaimed author of Two Sisters and The Woman in the Photo has a passionate fan in Virginia Stanley, Director of Library Marketing at HarperCollins. The story of a woman coping with the gradual loss of her husband to dementia, Left is both wise and heartfelt. Virginia and Mary discussed the novel on Facebook Live, which you can watch below. Needless to say, this is a novel not to be missed.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
We had the pleasure of meeting Peng at this year's Public Library Association Conference, which was extra wonderful as I have been raving about this debut novel and was able to fanboy (within reason) during Peng's signing. The Book of M is a perfect blend of literary and dystopian, about a young couple, Ory and Max, who are ripped apart in the midst of a global catastrophe. The story is deeply imaginative but what really gives the book heft is the narration, as both Ory and Max's voices are so unique and so very human. Fans of Station Eleven and Joe Hill should be enamored of this weighty, thrill-ride of a
novel.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
More Great Titles Coming in June
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The New York Times bestselling author brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge a new path for herself and her granddaughter in modern India.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts adds an inventive twist to the home invasion horror story in a heart-palpitating novel of psychological suspense that recalls Stephen King’s Misery and Jack Ketchum’s cult hit The Girl Next Door.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
Sweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who returns to her family’s ancestral vineyard in Burgundy and unexpectedly uncovers a lost diary, an unknown relative, and a secret her family has been keeping since World War II.
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LibraryReads voting deadline: April 20th
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We hope you enjoy the reads and cast your votes for LibraryReads! Remember, the deadline to vote for the June list is April 20th!
-Chris