Summer is the perfect time to fall into a great book — whether that means your heart racing for all the wrong reasons or all the right ones. This year's releases are giving us thriller gold and romance heaven in equal measure. Here are 10 books from 2025 and 2026 that absolutely belong on your summer TBR.
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Books That Made Me Stay Up Until 3 AM – Thriller Edition
You know a thriller is doing its job when you glance at the clock expecting it to be 10 PM and somehow it's already 3 AM. These are the books that completely hijacked my reading schedule. Whether it was shocking twists, relentless suspense, creepy atmospheres, or characters I couldn't stop thinking about, every one of these books kept me turning pages long after I should have been asleep. Click to get discover some fantastic book recs!!
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New Books Everywhere | What to look out for in 2025!
Hi, dear book lovers; how has your reading been this year? Mine was occupied with some of the best in the genres that I enjoy reading the most and it couldn’t get better. The year is ending soon, and it just means one thing – New year, New books!!! How exciting is that?! While there are so MANY new books that will be coming into the world in the first half of 2025, I will be focusing on some of my early reads that I am super curious to get started. The Other People by C. B. Everett About the Book: A group of strangers gathered at a mysterious country house…
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I Said Run by Britney King ~ New Thriller Book Recommendation
I Said Run by Britney King Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Fiction Published: March 2024 Rating: 4/5 About the Book In the heart-chilling seclusion of a distant cabin, immerse yourself in a psychological journey so intense it’ll have you burning the midnight oil. Meet Eve, a wealthy heiress seeking the simplicity of a tranquil life in a country town, savoring the bliss of newlywed joy. But the idyllic beginning takes a dark twist when she is caught in the sinister web of a stranger named Jenkins. Trapped in his home, surrounded by eerie reminders of Jenkins’s late wife, taxidermied deer heads bear silent witness as Eve and others become pawns in…
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Book Recommendation – If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay
If Something Happens To Me by Alex Finlay Genre: Mystery & Thriller Published: May 2024, Head of Zeus UK Rating: 4/5 About the book For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open. The crushing blow to the head. The hands yanking him from the vehicle. His girlfriend Ali’s piercing scream as she is taken. With no trace of Ali or the car, a cloud of suspicion hangs over Ryan. But with no proof and a good lawyer, he’s never charged, though that doesn’t matter to the podcasters and internet trolls. Now, Ryan has changed his last name, and entered law school.…
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Most Anticipated Books of 2023 – JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON by Gillian McAllister
Mystery novelist, Gillian McAllister is back with her next highly anticipated book, JUST ANOTHER MISSING PERSON: A Novel (William Morrow, On-sale 8/1/23). Her newest book follows on the heels of the popular Wrong Place Wrong Time, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Reece’s Book Club pick. McAllister is a rising star in the suspense space and fans of her previous books as well as fans of Liane Moriarty, Gilly Macmillan, and Rebecca Serle are sure to enjoy her latest this summer!
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Book Recommendation – The Golden Spoon | Jessa Maxwell
For six amateur bakers, competing in Bake Week is a dream come true. When they arrive at Grafton Manor to compete, they're ready to do whatever it takes to win the ultimate The Golden Spoon. But for the show's famous host, Betsy Martin, Bake Week is more than just a competition. Grafton Manor is her family's home and legacy - and Bake Week is her life's work. It's imperative that both continue to succeed. But as the competition commences, things begin to go awry. At first, it's small acts of sabotage. Someone switching sugar for salt. A hob turned far too high. But when a body is discovered, it's clear…
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Book Recommendation – The Hike | Lucy Clarke
Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of towering mountains, glass-like lakes, log cabins and forests stolen from a fairytale. It’s the perfect place to lose yourself – until a broken body is found at the bottom of a ravine. Somewhere out there, someone knows exactly why a woman has died. And in this deep, dark wilderness, there’s a killer on the trail . . .
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Book Recommendations – New Thrillers 2023
Anticipated Thrillers 2023.
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Book Recommendation | I Hear You by Nidhi Upadhyay
Most expectant mothers talk to their unborn. But what if the unborn starts to respond? Mahika is hoping that a baby will breathe new life into her dead marriage. But all her pregnancies meet the same fate, because no baby is perfect for Shivam, her genius geneticist husband. Until there is one. Rudra, the world’s first genetically altered foetus, is Shivam’s perfect creation and Mahika’s last hope. The six-week-pregnant Mahika has just walked into her fertility clinic when she discovers an anonymous note that discloses the ugly truth behind her pregnancy. Before Mahika can come to terms with the fact that her husband’s quest for perfection has marked its territory…
