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A self-help phenomenon turned cultural movement, The Let Them Theory has sold over 3.6 million copies, going beyond the pages into social media, tattoos, and everyday mantras among readers seeking emotional peace. It’s surging in audiobook popularity...
The Let Them Theory: Life-Changing Tool
This self-published romantasy featuring telepathic direwolves and vampires went viral on TikTok and Instagram, earning a major seven-figure deal with Hachette just 90 days post-publication .
Dire Bound by Sable Sorensen
PEOPLE’s Must-Read Books of Fall 2025
According to PEOPLE (published 5 days ago), this curated fall list spans 16 standout titles across genres—from espionage and thrillers to memoirs, cyberpunk, and sapphic fantasy. The highlights include:
• Publication Date: October 14, 2025, from Grove Press.
• Genre: Literary horror with psychological and spectral elements, set against the stark backdrop of Antarctica 
• The protagonist, Striker, is a Black film scout aboard a luxury Antarctic...
The Unveiling
• The story follows demoted MI5 spies of Slough House—nicknamed the “clowns”—who get entangled in a dangerous plot rooted in a covert operation during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A group of retired spies uses blackmail to leverage better pensio...
Clown Town (Slough House) by Mick Herron
The story follows Clio Louise Barnes, a stylist and influencer whose glossy public persona conceals a traumatic past—her family’s childhood home was allegedly possessed, not just haunted. Her mother, Alex, insisted the house was demonic and even wrot...
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
Roy portrays her mother, Mary—an educator and women’s rights pioneer who successfully fought discriminatory inheritance laws in Kerala—as both “my shelter and my storm,” highlighting the complex, ambivalent nature of their bond
Release Date: Set fo...
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
In this raw, multi-generational memoir, Hamilton explores her family’s disintegration against the backdrop of personal tragedy—one brother’s sudden death, another’s suicide, and long-standing estrangements    .
• Hamilton reflects on growing up...
Next of Kin: A Memoir by Gabrielle Hamilton
Central Plot: Rocky, now settled back home with her husband Nick, daughter Willa, and widowed father Mort, grapples with anxiety when a former classmate of her son Jamie dies in a train accident. Simultaneously, she copes with an unexplained medical ...
Wreck
Humanity has turned to a virtual-reality refuge (“upcountry”) to escape environmental collapse, while those who can’t afford access are left in dilapidated “downcountry.” A cold war simmers between the VR superpowers Medaluo and Atahua  .
• Eiral...
Coldwire #1 - Chloe Gong
Publication & Genre
• Release Date: October 21, 2025 in the U.S.; October 23 in the U.K.  
• Genre: Paranormal romance with comedic fantasy elements and a sapphic lead.  
Plot & Premise
• Samantha Cooper, reeling from a failed marri...
The Devil She Knows by Alexandria Bellefleur
• Release Date: October 14, 2025, published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
• In Joyride, Orlean reflects on a life shaped by curiosity and storytelling, offering a masterclass in narrative nonfiction punctuated by warmth and wit. She...
Joyride | Book by Susan Orlean | Official Publisher Page
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• Release date: August 26, 2025 — marks the first fiction novel published under the FOX News Books imprint.  
• Genre: Dark mystery / legal thriller set in a small South Carolina town.  
Assistant District Attorney Colm Truesdale, scarred by th...
The Color of Death: A Novel by Gowdy & Greyson
Author: Ashley Elston—known for her YA novels—is making her adult fiction debut with this suspenseful thriller.  
• Publication Timeline:
• Hardcover, eBook, and audiobook: released January 2, 2024
Plot & Premise
Evie Porter seems to have i...
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Title: Look Again (Stand-alone thriller)
• Author: Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author known for legal drama and emotionally driven suspense
Plot & Themes
Ellen Gleeson, a Philadelphia reporter, receives a “Have You Seen This Ch...
Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
• Release date: June 19, 2025 in some regions, with a U.S. release set for August 12, 2025—marking her milestone 25th novel and launch of a new series.   
• Setting & Premise: In the small town of North Falls, two teenage girls vanish during ...
We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1) by Karin Slaughter
• Official publication date: March 25, 2025 (International: March 27)   .
• Available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats  .
Plot Synopsis
• Protagonist: Sami Kierce, once a college student on a backpacking trip in Spain in 2000.
• ...
Nobody's Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2) by Harlan Coben
• Release Date: August 26, 2025. Available in hardcover (≈288 pages), paperback, and eBook formats.    
• Series: First installment of the Twin Lights series.  
• Genre: Domestic thriller infused with mystery and suspense.   
Plot Summary...
Smuggler's Cove (Twin Lights, #1) by Fern Michaels
• Publication: Originally published in June 1990, Play Dead marked the beginning of Harlan Coben’s prolific writing journey .
Plot Summary
• The story centers on supermodel Laura Ayers and NBA star David Baskin, whose perfect honeymoon turns trag...
Play Dead by Harlan Coben
• Release Date: June 3, 2025  
• Formats Available: Hardcover, paperback, ebook (352 pages), and audiobook (~9 hours 52 minutes narrated by Kristen DiMercurio).   
Premise & Story
Set in the early 1980s, Atmosphere tells the story of Jo...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Originally published: September 15, 2020
• Genre: Historical fiction, prequel in the Kingsbridge series
• Setting: Late Dark Ages England (997–1007 CE), leading up to the founding of Kingsbridge   .
Plot & Characters
The novel follows thr...
The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge, #0) by Ken Follett
• Release Date: April 22, 2025  
• Genre: Historical women’s fiction with themes of sisterhood, feminism, and self-realization  
• Setting: Early 1960s, suburban Virginia — a time when the so-called American Dream leaves many women feeling un...
The Book Club for Troublesome Women by Marie Bostwick
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The book distills 3,000 years of history into 48 “laws” of power, drawn from the lives of historical leaders, rulers, and thinkers such as Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Cleopatra, Napoleon, and Henry Kissinger.
The core theme: Power is neutral—it’s how you ...
The+48+Laws+Of+Power.pdf
Millie, down on her luck, takes a live-in maid position for Nina Winchester, a wealthy woman who at first seems perfect. The mansion is beautiful, the family appears polished — but soon Millie notices unsettling behavior.
• Nina acts increasingly un...
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2) by Freida McFadden
Set in North Falls, Georgia, the novel follows Officer Emmy Clifton, who returns to her hometown just as two teenage girls vanish during a fireworks celebration.
As Emmy digs into the case, she must confront the town’s long-buried secrets, her own t...
We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1) by Karin Slaughter
✨ “Freedom starts when you stop controlling others — and start focusing on yourself. #LetThem #MelRobbins #SelfGrowth #BoundariesMatter #MindsetShift”
The Let Them Theory: Life-Changing Tool
✨ “Tiny changes. Big results. Your future is built by the habits you practice today.”
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
✨ “One summer can change everything—first love, heartbreak, and the magic of growing up.”
The Summer I Turned Pretty (Summer, #1) by Jenny Han
✨ “She has to choose between the boy she’s loved forever and the boy she can’t imagine life without.”
We'll Always Have Summer (Summer, #3) by Jenny Han
✨ “Her story of faith, family, and finally finding freedom—raw, brave, and unforgettable.”
Christine Brown Woolley (@christine_brownsw)
“Two women. Two continents. One heirloom ties a modern mother’s heartbreak to a refugee’s secret past.”
Husbands & Lovers by Beatriz Williams
✨ “One man. One ship. One impossible mission to save all of humanity.”
Project Hail Mary: A Novel by Andy Weir