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- "Some people just emerge from the pages of history demanding to have their voices heard. And that was very much was the case here." —@catherinegracekatz on the cast of characters in her new book SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME is "an enthralling account of hubris and calamity, dismay and disbelief, and survival and endurance" (Sir David Cannadine). In it, Catherine Grace Katz illustrates the story of the Hindenburg through the people caught in the grip of fate: an adventurous heiress, a renowned vaudeville star, a Chicago industrialist with German Jewish roots, an esteemed zeppelin captain, and a young cabin boy on his first voyage to the United States. Meanwhile, on the ground, two intrepid journalists’ reporting on the Hindenburg fundamentally changed breaking news, paving the way for modern media. Pick up this "stirring read" (@jon.meacham) today!
- Listen to @nataliebaszile read an excerpt from her new novel FRIENDS AND FAMILY! "A soulful gumbo that brims with the spice of nuance and the richness of real people facing impossible decisions," (@zakiyadalilaharris) FRIENDS AND FAMILY follows best friends Babs and Nora as they find themselves at odds over their beliefs after their teenage children are involved in a traumatic police encounter. When Nora's adopted Black son seeks refuge with Babs and her family, she becomes torn between respecting Nora’s boundaries and embodying the values so important to her own family. The choice she makes will shape their lives forever. @bernicelmcfadden raves, "FRIENDS AND FAMILY is a timely and topical, masterfully layered story chock full of characters who shine on every page... Everyone in America should read this book." Get your copy of this piercing examination of friendship and loyalty today!
- "I lit a candle for Father, as it’s the twenty-third." —The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1
- "I'm thinking of it kind of as my ode to Notting Hill and Sweet Home Alabama. If Sweet Home Alabama was a small town in Pennsylvania." —@beccamfreeman on her new book, BACK WHERE WE STARTED, now on sale. BACK WHERE WE STARTED is "an utterly unputdownable love story tracing back and forth in time, with characters so thoughtfully crafted you can’t help but root for them through it all" (@robinnelee). It follows Katie, a rising Hollywood star, who explores the road not taken with her first love, Drew, an aspiring politician. BACK WHERE WE STARTED is about allowing oneself to change, the addictive nature of achievement, and how we make room in our lives for what matters most. Annabel Monaghan promises BACK WHERE WE STARTED is "a romance you’ll stay up late swooning over... This is an absolutely perfect book, don’t miss it.” Pick up this celebrity-normie, second-chance romance today!
- Watch @emmastrenner, author of MY OTHER HEART, talk about the absolutely heart-wrenching opening scene of her novel (if you know, you KNOW!). ✈️👀 "A mesmerizing novel filled with different types of love and secrets from the past" (@jeankwokauthor), MY OTHER HEART follows best friends Kit and Sabrina, both on separate journeys to learn about their true identities, and Mimi, a mother who's daughter disappeared in Philadelphia airport seventeen years earlier. @jinwoochong raves, "I’ve never read anything quite like Emma Nanami Strenner’s My Other Heart:gorgeous, devastating, equally joyous and heartbreaking... Reaching the end of Sabrina, Kit, and Mimi’s story was like taking in a gasp of air after spending a minute underwater.” What was your reaction to the opening scene? Let us know in the comments 👇
- So this is a book that takes a subject that's very dear to my heart and explores it on the broadest canvas, going all the way back to the Bronze Age and all the way forward to the nuclear age." —@d_a_n_jones on his new book, CASTLES. From New York Times bestselling historian Dan Jones, CASTLES is a grand and sweeping history of the world, told through over three thousand years of iconic fortifications. Jones takes readers on a journey through the many eras of castle-building and across continents as each stronghold tells a unique story of power, politics, and survival, revealing the shifting tides of warfare, the rise and fall of empires, the resilience of people under siege, and the flourishing of new ideas. In a starred review, @kirkusreviews called CASTLES "[an] entertaining, fact-filled history of fortifications...vividly described in a breezy, absorbing writing style that’s buttressed by meticulous research." Preorder your copy of CASTLES before hits shelves everywhere November 3rd!
- YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT is now on sale 🙌 and to celebrate, we asked author @katiejungwrites to blind react to Goodreads reviews of her debut novel. 👻 ABOUT YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT 👻 Libby Lakoski is secretly in love with her best friend, Carter Coldwell, but he’s marrying someone else. They have years of shared history and longing looks — not to mention that Libby is the only person he trusted to tell about his family curse. On the night of Carter's engagement, Libby meets Trip Coldwell, Carter’s handsome, smart, flirtatious cousin who also happens to be… a ghost that only she can see. Trip’s “unfinished business” is to break the Coldwell curse, which he believes hinges on Carter going through with the wedding. Something Libby doesn't want. Can Libby put aside her pining for Carter and work with his hot and not-quite-living cousin to save both men? Can she choose between saving the Coldwells and holding tight to her own happily ever after? Pick up YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT today and find out!
- 🎧 Watch Alejandro Varela (@drovarela) explain how he brought humor to anxiety in his novel, MIDDLE SPOON 💕🥄 The narrator of MIDDLE SPOON appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life—and a sexy younger boyfriend. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he’s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible. If you've ever had to nurse a broken heart, gone down an overthinking spiral, or grapple with love at its messiest, then you need to read MIDDLE SPOON ❤️🩹
- "It all started when a carpenter names James Marshall found a few glittering flakes in the tail race of Sutter's Mill and unleashed the Rush." —@natphilbrick on his new book. In THE RUSH, on sale October 6th, bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick transforms the Gold Rush from a tale of sudden riches into the origin story of America’s modern contradictions and a stubborn belief in the American experiment that refuses to die. This is the story of a nation tearing at the seams and a republic tested by its own ideals. @hamptonsidesauthor sides raves, "THE RUSH brings new energy and insight to a massively consequential event we only thought we knew" while @jon.meacham calls it “an illuminating and absorbing account of the California Gold Rush, bringing that tumultuous, thrilling, and complex moment to vivid life,” Be sure to pick up THE RUSH when it hits shelves in TWO WEEKS 🗓️
- "This is a story of love and friendship, and about what happens when two people, who think they know each other really well, discover that they've made assumptions." Watch author @nataliebaszile describe her new novel, FRIENDS AND FAMILY, on sale in less than a month! Babs and Nora became friends thanks to their kids. Now, the desire to protect their children might tear them apart. When the cops are called on their kids while they’re home alone, leading to a traumatic police encounter for Nathan, Nora's adopted black son, their worlds are turned upside down. FRIENDS AND FAMILY is an eye-opening exploration of friendship and privilege, race and community, and what it means to truly be a good friend and ally. If this sounds like your kind of read, be sure to mark your calendars for October 6th when FRIENDS AND FAMILY hits shelves everywhere 🗓️
- 4Viking Penguin is thrilled to welcome Beth Brower and THE UNSELECTED JOURNALS OF EMMA M. LION. 📚✨ First self-published in 2019 by the author’s own Rhysdon Press, this captivating series has sold more than a million copies and gained a large, passionate readership devoted to the adventures of Emma M. Lion, a charming and strong-willed young woman who returns to Victorian London to claim her inheritance. Each volume spans two months in Emma’s life, with journal entries cataloguing her innermost thoughts and run-ins with a cast of memorable characters, including her eccentric Cousin Archibald, her formidable Aunt Eugenia, and the slightly odd denizens of St. Crispian’s, a fictional London neighborhood. Volumes 1-8 will be available in paperback from Penguin Books on November 24, 2026, and the highly anticipated Volume Nine slated for publication on February 23, 2027.
- Listen to THE ELUSIVE BODY author Alexandra Sifferlin talk about different ways in which doctors are trying to improve diagnostic outcomes. Millions of Americans live with conditions that elude diagnosis, often navigating a healthcare system that fails to recognize or effectively address their suffering. A correct diagnosis is more than a label; it’s a lifeline that opens doors to treatment options, financial support, and an understanding community. In THE ELUSIVE BODY, journalist Alexandra Stifferlin “masterfully illuminates the reasons for these failures, with their profound adverse health implications, and how we can markedly improve in the future" (@terictopol1). To learn more about the diagnosis crisis, pick up THE ELUSIVE BODY today!
- Watch acclaimed historian and author @catherinegracekatz describe her new book, SHADOW BEFORE THE FLAME, on sale September 22nd 📖 In this “gripping, sensitive account of one of the most infamous disasters in modern history” (Adam Higginbotham), Grace Katz illustrates the tale of the Hindenburg through the captivating passengers and crew caught in the grip of fate and, on the ground, the two intrepid journalists — whose reporting on the Hindenburg fundamentally changed breaking news and paved the way for modern media. Be sure to pick up this "enthralling account of hubris and calamity, dismay and disbelief, and survival and endurance" (Sir David Cannadine) when it hits shelves 🗓️ 📸: Courtesy of the 87th Air Base Wing Historian, Harold G. Dick Airships Collection, and Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
- We challenged IF BOOKS COULD KILL author @kateeberleauthor to game of ‘Red Flag or Romance?’! Watch to hear her thoughts on library first dates, guys who loves crime novels, and more! Let us know in the comments what you think is a red flag 🚩 and what you think is romance ❤️ 🔪👀
- From France to New York City, @naimacoster talks about why she set her new novel — and @gmabookclub August pick — TAKE WHAT YOU CAN in these two locations. 🌆 Weaving between Brooklyn brownstones and the glittering beaches of southern France, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN is a dazzling novel exploring what it means to be a mother when you have none, a sister without blood ties, and a woman in pursuit of the life she wants. @cleyvisnatera raves, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN is "a remarkable and astonishing novel... Coster can write about relationships and the difficulties and joys of our modern times with such elegance, beauty, and power.” Pick up this “nuanced exploration of friendship and motherhood” (@nytbooks) today!
- If you want a read that 👉 is an explosive, cinematic escape 👉 has a feral female character 👉 is about a kidnapped victim becoming a radical insurgent Then you need to pick up THE BOMBSHELL by @darrowfarr 💣 THE BOMBSHELL is "a complex, unflinching portrait of youthful transformation and the dangerous allure of fame" (@gabimgarcia). One night, Séverine Guimard, the pampered French American daughter of a politician, is snatched off her bike by a militant trio fighting for Corsican independence and held for a large ransom. As Séverine is exposed to the group’s politics, she decides to become the face of a radical movement for a global TV audience––a move that will have explosive consequences. If you haven't read this "smart, sophisticated tale of sexual and political awakening" (@nytbooks) yet, consider this your sign to start!
- "A flat story on Instagram is almost unimaginable." —@kjezermo Listen to THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE author and New York Magazine columnist, Kathryn Jezer-Morton define the concept of flat stories and explain how they don’t translate on social media. In THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE, Kathryn provides “thought-provoking analysis on what exactly we’re doing with all our many hours of screen time—namely, how and why we share, consume, and experience life through social media” (@harpersbazaarus). Through rigorous research and intimate interviews with everyday people, Jezer-Morton explores how the platforms on which we have told our life stories for the past twenty years have determined what those stories have come to look and sound like. Pick up this smart, funny, and sharply observant book today!
- Do you love a beach read that has: 👉 Messy characters with messy families 👉 Old friends with secrets 👉 A small town setting Then you need to read THE SHAMPOO EFFECT by @jennyjacksonpineapple, the July @readwithjenna pick 🫧 @elinhilderbrand raves, THE SHAMPOO EFFECT "has everything I love in a beach read: a coastal setting, multiple points of view, compelling storylines, and a delicious specificity to the writing that makes every single sentence feel fresh and alive. Jenny Jackson’s The Shampoo Effect is a must, must, must for your summer reading list.” Let us know in the comments if you'll be closing out your summer reading with THE SHAMPOO EFFECT 👇
- "I wanted to write about two women who choose each other and make the unusual choice of building their lives around one another." —Naima Coster on writing about friendships The August @gmabookclub pick, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN by @naimacoster, is a rich, panoramic exploration of friendship, class, new motherhood, and independence. The novel follows college friends Milly and Val as they reconnect a decade later and navigate what it means to be a mother when you have none, a sister without blood ties, and a woman in pursuit of the life she wants. @dawniewalton raves, "Long after reading the last page of Naima Coster’s latest exploration of love, I still feel Milly and Val pulsing through my soul... TAKE WHAT YOU CAN is the kind of novel you’ll be hungry to share with your own friends, debating who’s right, who’s wrong, and who could use a hug the most."
- We challenged author @katiejungwrites to describe her debut novel, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT, in 20 seconds 👀 Watch to see if she can do it! In YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT, Libby must team up with (and try not to catch feelings for) Trip, a handsome ghost only she can see in order to save Carter, her best friend and lifelong crush, from his family’s deadly curse. As Libby and Trip follow a trail of clues across New York City, Libby finds herself questioning how much Carter has reciprocated her friendship, feeling perplexed by a growing attraction to Trip, and fantasizing about actually touching him. @eiffeltyler calls YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT "the ideal romance debut: a slow-burn love story that crackles with chemistry combined with a page-turning mystery, while @kandisteiner raves "the yearning and tension were off the charts and kept me reading long after I promised ‘just one more chapter." If this sounds like your kind of read, save this post and mark your calendar for September 22 🗓️
- “Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt.”—@nytbooks The only rock we eat, salt, has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. What's your favorite fact you learned from @codlansky's SALT?
- "I have never been kissed so thoroughly in my entire life. The thrill of it darts through my entire body, nerves firing and misfiring like a game of laser tag. I lose track of time, of space, of everything as his mouth claims mine again and again. I lose track of myself. So much so that without warning, I do something so hopelessly cliché that I didn’t think it was a real thing: I go literally, physically weak at the knees. " Listen to author @kateeberleauthor read from her debut, action-packed, rom-com, IF BOOKS COULD KILL🔪 @asia.mackay promises that "this is absolutely the genre mashup we all need" while @saraadlerwrites calls it “a delightful, laugh-out-loud romp through genre fiction that I wanted to re-read the moment I hit the last sentence." Get your copy of IF BOOKS COULD KILL today!
- "I wanted to write about two women who choose each other and make the unusual choice of building their lives around one another." —Naima Coster on writing about friendships The August @gmabookclub pick, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN by @naimacoster, is a rich, panoramic exploration of friendship, class, new motherhood, and independence. The novel follows college friends Milly and Val as they reconnect a decade later and navigate what it means to be a mother when you have none, a sister without blood ties, and a woman in pursuit of the life she wants. @dawniewalton raves, "Long after reading the last page of Naima Coster’s latest exploration of love, I still feel Milly and Val pulsing through my soul... TAKE WHAT YOU CAN is the kind of novel you’ll be hungry to share with your own friends, debating who’s right, who’s wrong, and who could use a hug the most."
- If you’re looking to obsess over a read that is: 👉 crime saga x dark academia 👉 about a family of impeccably dressed psychopaths 👉 for fans of Umbrella Academy and Succession Then THE MORTONS by @scott_westerfeld and @drjustinefancypants should be at the top of your TBR 📚 With "knife-sharp writing, rocket fuel pacing, and air of mystery" (@ashleywinsteadbooks), THE MORTONS follows Jessica Morton, the prodigy of her generation, as she commits her first kill for the family. Sharp and hypnotic, THE MORTONS is an epic novel of alliances and power, loyalty and kinship, and the consequences of ruthless ambition. Pick up this killer read today 🔪🩸
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