As I was writing my newest book, The Secrets We Hide, I was thinking about how to make the twists more intense. . . . This process had me thinking about some of the dark and twisty books that have stuck with me the most. Here are some of my all-time favorites. Warning: these TBRs are so intense that they may keep you up at night.
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It’s awards season for the comic book industry, with the Eisner Awards due to be handed out in two weeks at San Diego Comic-Con. Another prestigious award, the Harveys, which are presented annually at New York Comic Con, just announced their 2026 nominees, featuring some of the top graphic novels, webcomics, international comics and media tie-ins of the past year.
Best Children’s Book
This category honors outstanding comics and graphic novels that inspire young readers through imaginative storytelling, memorable characters, and accessible adventures
• Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
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Readers can’t seem to get enough of thrillers and mysteries, and there’s no shortage of writers eager to deliver them. Here are five new ones coming out this summer, including four by Atlanta authors ranging from veteran megaseller Karin Slaughter to up-and-comer Frank Reddy.
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Summerween is here, and that means it’s time to focus on the horrors and the thrillers. The Death Row Club by V.A. Vazquez will offer that on July 14, 2026. It’s perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll, bringing a take on friendship, loyalty, and parenthood.
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Naturally, many of us are craving juicy page-turners that give us access to somewhere fabulous—plus the wicked satisfaction of discovering that paradise is actually populated by terrible people, ghoulish secrets, and/or a corpse or two stinking up that white sand beach.
This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
Slaughter has crafted an intricate, chilling mystery that also looks into the complicated history of a single family—a thriller much richer and more disturbing than your classic whodunit.
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Nothing beats a summer book club gathering where friendship, good books, conversation, and okay—maybe a cocktail or two—collide.
All The Little Houses by May Cobb
In 1980s Longview, Texas, ambitious social climber Charleigh Andersen has built a powerful life for herself and her daughter, Nellie, using control, charm, and a bit of ruthless determination, but when a seemingly wholesome new family moves to town, it threatens to expose old insecurities and unravel the carefully constructed world Charleigh has fought to maintain.
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If you’ve watched Netflix’s The Hunting Wives—and if you haven’t, consider this a plea to fix your life immediately—then you already know that May Cobb is unmatched when it comes to writing stories about both East Texas culture and messy, generally unhinged groups of women.
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For the first time ever, BookTok just released an official US #BookTok summer reading list to help you curate your summer reads.
The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter
In a small Georgia town where everybody is hiding something, Sheriff Emmy and her ex-federal agent sister Jude must find the truth behind a bloody crime scene on a quiet street.
"Karin Slaughter the best thriller writing working today, and this new series just shows she’s at the top of her game." — TikTok creator @baker.reads
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Some literary thrillers will stick with you for a day or two, while others will shake you to your core. These are the books that have you paranoid and enduring sleepless nights, or even sleeping with a nightlight on. Many thriller aficionados agree that Karin Slaughter's body of work falls into the latter group. That's why Kindle readers can't seem to get enough of her thrilling mystery books.
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The Good Daughter, starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, will premiere Nov. 12. Based on a novel by Karin Slaughter (who’s also the showrunner), the drama centers on sisters Charlotte (Fahy) and Samantha (Byrne) Quinn, who “have spent the last 20 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence,” the logline reads. “When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte — lawyer like her father — is the first witness on the scene. As the case unfolds and twists through painful memories and buried secrets, what emerges is not just a story of survival,but of enduring ties between a father, his daughters and the complex bond between sisters.” Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Olivia Williams, Drew Cheek, Audrey Grace Marshall and Michael Dorman also star.
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Fresh off the success of the Netflix series adaptation of her beloved novel The Hunting Wives, author May Cobb is back with another heart-pounding book.
The novel is a sequel to Cobb's 2026 thriller All the Little Houses.
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De Robertis has achieved something exceptional with Cantoras by writing about what it was like to live in Uruguay’s dictatorship through the lives of five gay women who are looking for family, solace, love, safety, and freedom. Reading this during the current downfall of democracy in the U.S. was alarming but also hopeful. There is a beautiful spirit woven throughout the entire novel about creating family, enduring, finding/making a refuge, and what the future can be. Very few books have left me holding them as if to hug them into my body forever the way Cantoras did. And for all the sprinkles on top, De Robertis beautifully narrates the audiobook.
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"All the Little Houses" by May Cobb
Get ready for more juicy small-town gossip from the author of “The Hunting Wives.” “All the Little Houses” follows the well-to-do Andersons in small-town Texas who always get what they want, especially daughter Nellie and mother Charleigh. But when a new “prairie-kissed” family moves to town and climbs up the ranks, the social standing of the new-money Andersons teeters on collapse.
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I loved May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives (now deservingly an HBO series), so believe me when I tell you that her latest novel, a salaciously unhinged interpretation of Little House On The Prairie set in 1980s Texas, may be the best thing she’s ever written!
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Faith Erin Hicks’ new book InBetweens is not a memoir. She wants to be clear on that. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have memoir-ish aspects.
“It is based very, very loosely on my experience going to a high pressure animation college in Ontario,” says the Vancouver-based artist. “The characters are younger than I was. I decided to make them younger because I wanted there to be the tension of 'is this the path for me?'"
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With great excitement, the Stowe Center announces Princess Joy L. Perry as our 2026 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner, author of This Here is Love (W.W. Norton & Company, 2025), a powerful historical novel set in 1619 that explores love, resistance, and the human cost of oppression. Through evocative and unflinching prose, Perry illuminates the psychological and moral complexities of a society built on bondage, inviting readers to confront the enduring legacy of injustice while recognizing love as a force of survival, connection, and defiance.
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'All the Little Houses' by May Cobb
It's the mid-1980s in Longview, Texas and Nellie Anderson — the beautiful heir of the Anderson family dynasty — can get anything she wants. And what she can’t get, her mother handles for her.
After all, Charleigh Anderson remembers what it was like to claw her way from being an outcast on the poor side of East Texas to where she is now. But when a new family comes to town — trad wife, woodworking dad, wholesome daughter — Charleigh finds herself fighting for the future of her social empire.
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This Here Is Love
Princess Joy L. Perry
Princess Joy L. Perry’s debut novel is a sweeping, intimate exploration of love, power, and survival in late seventeenth-century Virginia. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers describes the book as “the tenderest of prose and the most compelling of storytelling.” Perry interweaves the lives of Bliss, the last surviving child of her enslaved mother; David, the son of a man who dreams of emancipation; and Jack Dane, a Scottish-Irish child sold into indentured servitude. As their lives collide, the novel asks what love can endure—and what freedom truly means.
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