Fiction

Terror Comes From Within in Kailee Pedersen’s The Minimalist

Terror comes in many different forms. There is physical terror, emotional and mental terror, and group terror. The worst form of terror, many will argue, is the terror that lives in our own brain. This terror is explored in Kailee Pedersen’s new novel The Minimalist. The Minimalist describes a harrowing…

Matthew McCartyAugust 19, 2026

Fiction Romance

Kill Them With a Kiss in Viral Standalone Romantasy “The Poison Daughter”

Deadly. Delicious. Downright to die for. Sheila Masterson’s viral standalone romantasy The Poison Daughter receives an all-new, exclusive edition this summer, and it’s a title you won’t want to miss. Every person Harlow Carrenwell kisses receives a dose of poison — lethal, painful or paralyzing — fresh from her lips.…

Kiersten BjorkAugust 18, 2026

Fiction Romance

“Sometime This Century” Is an Enchanting Regency Romance Across Time

Sometime This Century is an enchanting fusion between Regency romantic comedy of manners and time-travel adventure vividly executed by author Samantha Silva. Protagonist Annabel Blake, age 22, aspiring novelist and obsessive Jane Austen fanatic, daydreams about living in early 19th-century England. She is introverted and dateless and has a penchant…

Linda HitchcockAugust 17, 2026

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A Nostalgic Night Out Turns Deadly in Jim Antonini’s “Candyland”

Jim Antonini's Candyland is a novel that captures a very specific time and place with such vivid detail that readers will feel like they've spent a night out with the characters rather than read about them. Antonini trades the seedy backwoods of West Virginia for the smoky pool halls and…

BookTribAugust 17, 2026

Fiction

Karen Odden’s Riveting Tale of Thieves and Treachery in Victorian London

Gifted mystery writer and Victorian English scholar Karen Odden draws attention while garnering accolades with An Artful Dodge, a novel set in late 19th-century London. Well-trained gangs of elegantly clad women shoplifters, pickpockets and clever thieves are pitted against constables and private detectives hired to protect the growing number of…

Linda HitchcockAugust 14, 2026

Audiobooks Fiction Romance

A Nuanced Exploration of a Marriage Falling Apart

There are two sides to every story, as the saying goes, and the truth often lies somewhere in the middle. Between Me and You, an Audible Original audiobook based on the novel by Alison Winn Scotch and adapted for audio by coauthor and screenwriter Pete Chiarelli (The Proposal, Crazy Rich Asians),…

BookTribJuly 27, 2026

Fiction Miscellany Thrillers

Why the Late ’90s Are Such a Perfect Fiction Setting

It's true. Millennials and Gen Xers love nostalgia. There's a reason so many of us keep mining that time period of our childhood in the 1980s and ‘90s for fiction. Nostalgia isn't just about reliving our carefree past when our knees were stronger, our skin was firmer, and our hair…

Leslye PenelopeAugust 11, 2026

Fiction

More Soul-Satisfying Travels Through Time in Latest Kawaguchi

Reading Toshikazu Kawaguchi is akin to taking a necessary soul-satisfying pause in the middle of a hectic day with a refreshing cold beverage or soothing cup of tea. Before I Knew I Loved You is the sixth book in the best-selling magical, heart-warming series that began with Before the Coffee…

Linda HitchcockAugust 5, 2026

Fiction Listicles

One Last Chance: 5 Novels About Redemption

In fiction, as in life, redemption often comes after the worst has already happened — after the betrayal, the failure of courage or the loss that cannot be reversed. What remains at that point is a harder question: What can still be done when nothing can be undone? These five…

BookTribAugust 6, 2026

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A Slow-Burn Dystopian Mystery Worth the Journey

Mike Colapietro's Where Gods Whisper is an atmospheric entry into speculative fiction that earns its scope through patient, layered storytelling. This novel trusts its readers to piece together a shattered world from fragments. The book opens with Mencken Barnes, a young woman held in some kind of subterranean cell, interrogated…

BookTribAugust 11, 2026

Fiction Thrillers

Riley Sager’s “The Unknown” Is His Creepiest Thriller Yet

I was already a huge fan of Riley Sager before The Unknown. I’ve read all of his previous best-selling thrillers and even got the opportunity to interview him once. So I was pretty sure right from the start this would be a good book. I just didn’t know it was…

R.G. BelskyAugust 5, 2026

Fiction Popular

How Exploring the Wild Beneath Transformed a Doctor into an Author

I never planned to write fiction. I’m a physician who has worked across rural and remote emergency departments and inner-city health for fifteen years. I’ve met tens of thousands of patients, and while they might come to me with the flu or a sprained ankle, there are always more important…

Kelly AndersonAugust 4, 2026

Fiction

Chloe Gong Brings “Flesh & False Gods” Series to Exhilarating Conclusion

Explosive. Breathtaking. It all comes down to the wire in the action-packed conclusion to Chloe Gong’s Flesh and False Gods trilogy, Eyes of Kings. Inspired by Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, the trilogy is set within the world of Talin, in which individuals can jump from body to body using their…

Kiersten BjorkAugust 4, 2026

Fiction

The Prehistory That Inspired This Profound Speculative Thriller

I was inspired to write The Shadows Tomorrow after reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by historian Yuval Noah Harari. I studied bioengineering and biology and have always been fascinated by evolution. One idea particularly struck me: we are now the only surviving human species. Of all the species…

Noëlle MichelAugust 4, 2026

Fiction Listicles

Summertime and the Livin’ Is NOT Easy

The long, lazy days of summer are here. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. These nine women's fiction novels depict summertime stories that range from comic to tragic and everything in between.

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 22, 2026

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Books That Feature “Twists of Fate”

Think about it: Some of the most unforgettable books hinge on a missed opportunity, a chance meeting, or even a random conversation. Such moments end up being the catalyst for life-altering journeys. What’s cool is that these stories can be found in almost all genres – romance, historical fiction, mystery,…

Suzy EnglandAugust 3, 2026

A Nostalgic Night Out Turns Deadly in Jim Antonini’s “Candyland”

A Nuanced Exploration of a Marriage Falling Apart

Why the Late ’90s Are Such a Perfect Fiction Setting

One Last Chance: 5 Novels About Redemption

A Slow-Burn Dystopian Mystery Worth the Journey

How Exploring the Wild Beneath Transformed a Doctor into an Author

The Prehistory That Inspired This Profound Speculative Thriller

Summertime and the Livin’ Is NOT Easy

Books That Feature “Twists of Fate”

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