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1 week ago | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: My FriendsAuthor: Fredrik BackmanPublished by: Atria Books on May 6, 2025Genres: General FictionPages: 448Format: ARC, PaperbackSource: Simon & Schuster CanadaBook Rating: 10/10Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea.
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2 months ago | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: The GardenAuthor: Nick NewmanPublished by: G.P. Putnam's Sons on Feb. 18, 2025Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science FictionPages: 313Format: ARC, PaperbackSource: Penguin Random House CanadaBook Rating: 8/10A beautiful eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world, and how their lives unravel when their sanctum is breached, for fans of Piranesi and The Testaments.
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2 months ago | 
redcarpetcrash.com | David Baldacci |Sandra Brown
The book is in stores on Tuesday, Feb. 25th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/4hYkMvgAward for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction.
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2 months ago | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: The SnowbirdsAuthor: Christina ClancyPublished by: St. Martin's Press on Feb. 4, 2025Genres: Contemporary Romance, Mystery/ThrillerPages: 304Format: HardcoverSource: St. Martin's PressBook Rating: 8/10Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their “separate but together” partnership is running up against the realities of late middle age: Grant’s mother has died, the college where he taught philosophy was shuttered, and their twin girls are grown and gone.
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2 months ago | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: Get Lost with YouAuthor: Sophie SullivanSeries: Rock Bottom Love #2Published by: St. Martin's Griffin on Feb. 11, 2025Genres: Contemporary RomancePages: 304Format: PaperbackSource: St. Martin's PressBook Rating: 8/10Jillian Keller took the long route to her best life, but is now happily settled in her hometown of Smile, raising her little girl alone while helping her brother run Get Lost Lodge.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: A Calamity of SoulsAuthor: David BaldacciPublished by: Grand Central Publishing on Feb.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: The Boyfriend HypothesisAuthor: Susannah NixSeries: Chemistry Lessons #3Published by: Pan Macmillan on Jan. 7, 2025Genres: Contemporary RomancePages: 293Format: PaperbackSource: Publishers Group CanadaBook Rating: 8/10After four lousy boyfriends in a row, chemical engineer Penny Popplestone swears off men until she can figure out why they keep cheating on her.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: Mask of the Deer WomanAuthor: Laurie L. DovePublished by: Berkley on Jan. 21, 2025Genres: Mystery/ThrillerPages: 336Format: HardcoverSource: Berkley PublishingBook Rating: 8.5/10To find a missing young woman, the new tribal marshal must also find herself. At rock bottom following her daughter’s death, ex–Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: More or Less MaddyAuthor: Lisa GenovaPublished by: Scout Press on Jan. 14, 2025Genres: General Fiction, Women's FictionPages: 368Format: ARC, PaperbackSource: Simon & Schuster CanadaBook Rating: 10/10A breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy. Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
whatsbetterthanbooks.com | Lauren Blakely |Danielle Steel |Anna Quindlen |Sandra Brown |Zoe Williams
Title: Village in the DarkAuthor: Iris YamashitaSeries: Cara Kennedy #2Published by: Berkley on Jan. 14, 2025Genres: Mystery/ThrillerPages: 288Format: PaperbackSource: Berkley PublishingBook Rating: 7.5/10Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder–and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof.
