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Larry King
Larry King, Emily Yoffe · 31 Oct
Best for: Readers who enjoy broadcasting history and chatty, anecdote-driven celebrity memoir, and who want to see Larry King's radio years before CNN fame.
Murder in the Manor
Fiona Grace · 30 Oct
Best for: Readers who want a gentle fresh-start cozy that spends its early chapters on a divorced New Yorker's new life in an English location before the murder takes over, and who may keep going with the Lacey Doyle series.
Nothing Ever Dies
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 30 Oct
Best for: Readers of cultural criticism, film and museum studies, or war history who want a philosophical argument about how wars are remembered rather than a narrative of what happened.
Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 30 Oct
Best for: Readers who want a fast, emotion-first sapphic slow-burn wrapped in a disaster frame, and who are happy for the NASA setting to serve the relationships rather than the other way round.
Loved and Missed
Susie Boyt · 30 Oct
Best for: Readers who want a short, voice-driven family novel that is funny and unsparing about addiction and about what a grandmother's second chance at caregiving costs.
Don't Let the Forest In
CG Drews · 30 Oct
Best for: Readers who want queer YA horror driven by mood, imagery and an unreliable narrator, with a codependent central relationship and a forest that functions as a character.
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