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"A thoughtful, searching piece of nonfiction that explores the beauty and importance of our increasingly endangered night sky."
If you go out at night and look up at the sky, what do you see? It depends on where you are, but if you're like most people, you may not see very much. In the cities and the suburbs, the glow of streetlights, buildings, and other sources of ...
Joan Kingsley tells us about The Bookies, a book club she formed at the First Presbyterian Church of Oyster Bay in Long Island, New York.
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A marine biologist rescues a Maine island menaced by a giant glowing jellyfish in this inventive debut.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after...
In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
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A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
"The horrors of the pogroms in the historical Russian Empire are reimagined through the lens of Jewish folklore in this haunting tale of resistance, autonomy, and survival."
Blending history with magical realism, Gabrielle Sher's debut novel Odessa takes place in the early 20th century Russian Empire during the pogroms, a series of government authorized attacks on Jewish communities throughout the empire. We follow Yetta...
Two women on opposite sides of the law team up to bring down gangster Lucky Luciano in this gripping novel.
A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
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"A deeply human, woman-centered story set in the Korean War, following a correspondent who finds herself in enemy territory."
Eve J. Chung's Daughters of Shandong was the winner of the BookBrowse Debut Book Award in 2024, and was also a popular BookBrowse Book Club and First Impressions selection. The Young Will Remember has likewise been a hit with our readers, with 24 out...
"While researching a Tudor-era mystic and the women around her, a historian stumbles into a legendary treasure hunt and must puzzle out clues from centuries ago."
From the very beginning of The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton, the two heroines—the titular Elizabeth and Dr. Alison Sage, a modern-day historian who studies Elizabeth's life as a mystic—both face imminent death, albeit in two entirely ...
A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell's savage, tender Soft Core.
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June 10, 2026
This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown, Whistler by Ann Patchett, and The ...
"In Sarah Braunstein's compelling short stories, complicated relationships push characters to confront their fears about parenting and betrayal."
Sarah Braunstein's third book, the short story collection Baby in a Box, is reminiscent of Jami Attenberg and Lauren Groff with its themes of dysfunctional families and anxieties over parenthood. Past and present mingle as the characters ponder ...
"A charming dual-timeline story set in Hungary and America, about a young mother and her curious daughter."
Fran Fabriczki's debut novel, Porcupines, is a dual-timeline story set between 2001 and the 1980s. In the later timeline, in Los Angeles, Sonia is a single mother to her ten-year-old daughter, Mila. Sonia and Mila have a close relationship, as their ...
A medical crisis brings one man close to death―and to love, art, and beauty―in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.
"A Community I Barely Knew"
People sometimes interpret reading books from minority cultures as virtue signaling, but I see it as an essential way to genuinely learn about communities I wouldn't otherwise encounter. With only two...
May 24, 2026
Yrsa Daley-Ward’s The Catch (2025), recently released in paperback, has a bizarre and intriguing premise: twin sisters who were separated at a young age, adopted into different families after their mother’s death, diverge in their ...
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