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Release Week: 5 August 2025
Posted on 2025-08-05 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
People Like Us: A Novel by Jason Mott, read by the author with Ronald Peet and JD Jackson for Penguin -- "Two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French
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Release Week: 29 July 2025
Posted on 2025-07-29 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories by Ed Park, read by a full cast for Random House -- "Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize."
The Memory Hunters: The Consecrated, Book 1 By: Mia Tsai, read by Channie Waites for Recorded Books -- "Inception meets Indiana Jones in this cinematic, slow burn, romantic fantasy following a headstrong
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Release Week: 22 July 2025
Posted on 2025-07-22 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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It Was Her House First By: Cherie Priest, read by Kristen DiMercurio, Cindy Kay, and Mark Bramhall for Sourcebooks -- "Silent film star Venita Rost's malevolent spirit lurks spider-like in her cliffside mansion, a once-beautiful home that's claimed countless unlucky souls. And she's not alone. Snared in her terrible web, Inspector Bartholomew Sloan—her eternal nemesis—watches her wreak havoc in helpless horror, shackled by his own guilt and Venita's unrelenting wrath. Now the house has yet another
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Release Week: 15 July 2025
Posted on 2025-07-15 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chipe for Random House -- "Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic."
Killer on the Road By: Stephen Graham Jones, read by Isabella Star LaBlanc, Richard Brake, and the author for Simon and Schuster -- "A gripping high-speed chase novel pitting a runaway teen and her unsuspecting friends against a relentless serial
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Release Week: 24 June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
The Compound: A Novel By: Aisling Rawle, read by Lucy Boynton for Random House -- "Lily—a bored, beautiful twenty-something—wakes up on a remote desert compound, alongside nineteen other contestants competing on a massively popular reality show. To win, she must outlast her housemates to stay in the Compound the longest, while competing in challenges for luxury rewards like champagne and lipstick, plus communal necessities to outfit their new home, like food, appliances, and a front door. Cameras
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Release Week: 17 June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
(in progress)
Some weeks are too big to even sum up. Anyway, here's my best...
PICKS:
Fox: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates, read by a full cast for Books On Tape -- "A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school."
Wearing the Lion By: John Wiswell, read by Christian Black and Elizabeth Klett
The Mercy Makers By: Tessa Gratton, read by Emily Lawrence
A Far Better
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Release Week: 10 June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-10 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
OVERALL PICK:
- King of Ashes: A Novel By: S. A. Cosby, read by Adam Lazarre-White for Macmillan -- "When eldest son Roman Carruthers is summoned home after his father’s car accident, he finds his younger brother, Dante, in debt to dangerous criminals and his sister, Neveah, exhausted from holding the family—and the family business—together. Neveah and their father, who run the Carruthers Crematorium in the run-down central Virginia town of Jefferson Run, see death up close every day. But mortality draws
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Release Week: 3 June 2025
Posted on 2025-06-03 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
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BACKLIST PICK:
The Illustrated Man By: Ray Bradbury Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Ari Fliakos, and Marin Ireland for Simon and Schuster
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6/3/25 Tempest By: K. Ibura
6/3 Shroud By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Of Monsters and Mainframes By: Barbara Truelove
6/3 Ten Incarnations of Rebellion A Novel By: Vaishnavi Patel
The Two Lies of Faven Sythe By: Megan E. O'Keefe Narrated by: Zara Ramm
Realms of the Round Table By: John Matthews, John Howe - illustrator, John Boorman - foreword
A Song of
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Release Week: 27 May 2025
Posted on 2025-05-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Written on the Dark By: Guy Gavriel Kay, read by Simon Vance for Penguin -- "Both sweeping and intimate, a majestic (fantasy) novel of love and war that brilliantly evokes the drama and turbulence of medieval France; an elegant tour de force about power and ambition playing out amid the intense human need for art and beauty, and memories to be left behind."
Harmattan Season: A Novel By: Tochi Onyebuchi, read by Dion Graham for Macmillan -- "Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much—least of
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Release Week: 20 May 2025
Posted on 2025-05-20 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
PICKS:
Mother London By: Michael Moorcock, read by Nicholas Boulton for Simon and Schuster -- "Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, award-winning author of the Elric series Michael Moorcock offers a captivating and immersive portrait of London from World War II through the 1980s through the eyes of three outpatients from a mental hospital."
Major Arcana By: John Pistelli, read by Nick Mills for Recorded Books -- "It begins with a gunshot: a student's public suicide on a university campus. The blast radius
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