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“What's better than Miss Marple? Two Miss Marples with a couple of bonus Mr. Marples. The Thursday Murder Club series is the perfect escapist read for lovers of old school British mysteries. Delightfully charming, and laugh-out-loud funny, the whole series is definitely a binge-listen waiting to happen. I can't imagine a better way to spend a vacation or holiday season. ”

Rachel • The Book Table

“The zany and brilliant Temporary put Hilary Leichter on my radar as an author to watch; Terrace Story has given her permanent residence in my brain. Strikingly different in tone from her first novel, Terrace Story is just as inventive, surreal, and riveting, with prose that is more polished yet still raw in all the right ways. This novel-in-stories opens with the discovery of a spacious terrace magically appearing behind the door of a young couple's closet in their cramped apartment. But as...”

Rachel • The Book Table

“What do you do next if your first book to be translated into English becomes a worldwide sensation shortlisted for numerous literary prizes? If you are Benjamín Labatut, the brilliant Chilean author, you write a new novel in your non-native English. Some writers tackle the same plots, characters, or themes over and over until they descend into monotony. Labatut, has somehow escaped this trap even though The Maniac is populated with the same sort of ideas as When We Cease to Understand the...”

Jason • The Book Table

“This debut fixes a gaze on the complex relationship between humans and wolves in a way that works to reconcile the mythological context with which we fear them against the reality we share with them. What I have the most adoration for in Berry's work is that it is, in itself, a wolf in sheep's clothing, as the true thematic core focuses on fear and how a once problematic and revered creature has played the role of cultural construct, allowing us a vessel through which to project age-old...”

Patrick • The Book Table

“If you've read Friday Black (The Book Table staff's Best Book of 2018) you're should be excited for this. Nana's debut novel, is about prisoners who sign up for death matches to have their sentences commuted. This book is written with all of the passion and creativity and empathy that Nana applies to his short stories, but it's an idea that deserves the time and length of a novel. If you haven't read Friday Black go ahead and read that story collection. And then when you come back to thank me...”

Eddy • The Book Table

“Audio is a perfect way to devour this great story about a true crime podcast. Everyone thinks Lucy killed her best friends 5 years ago, but the police have never charged anyone. Since Lucy has absolutely no memory of that night she even thinks maybe she did. When her grandmother (the only one who thinks she is innocent) teams up with a true crime podcaster to finally get the truth you end up with an amazing thriller full of unreliable narrators, snarky comments, unfaithful partners, and...”

Nancy • Fiction Addiction