The Short List

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• Sing to It: New Stories

  Amy Hempel

• Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)

  Martha Wells

• The Visitors

  Catherine Burns

• Bad Chili (Hap and Leonard #4)

  Joe R. Lansdale

• Dead Woman Scorned (The Patience of a Dead Man #2)

  Michael Clark

• Problem Child (Jane Doe, #2)

  Victoria Helen Stone

• A Sliver of Darkness

  C.J. Tudor

• Dirty Heads: A novella of cosmic coming-of-age horror

  Aaron Dries

• Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror

  Mark Matthews

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  Catch Her When She Falls

  Allison Buccola

• The Beautiful Ones

  Silvia Moreno-Garcia

• Ready Player Two

  Ernest Cline

• Gorillas in the Mist

  Dian Fossey

• Gone at Midnight: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam

  Jake Anderson

• Lanny

  Max Porter

• Mouth Full of Ashes

  Briana Morgan

• Wyrd and Other Derelictions

  Adam Nevill

• My Dark Vanessa

  Kate Elizabeth Russell

• Blood & Brimstone (The Fearing #5)

  John F.D. Taff

• Made for Love

  Alissa Nutting

• Psycho

  Robert Bloch

• Apple of My Eye

  Claire Allan

• Ten Days in a Mad-House

  Nellie Bly

• Milk-Blood

  Mark Matthews

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Lake Witch Trilogy, #1)

  Stephen Graham Jones

• Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

  Michael Chabon

• The Body: A Guide for Occupants

  Bill Bryson

• 

  There There

  Tommy Orange

• Secrets of a Charmed Life

  Susan Meissner

• Frenchman's Creek

  Daphne du Maurier

• The Girl with the Louding Voice

  Abi Daré

• Back Talk

  Danielle Lazarin

• Greek Myths: A New Retelling

  Charlotte Higgins

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  Hidden Pictures

  Jason Rekulak

• Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)

  Tomi Adeyemi

• The Winters

  Lisa Gabriele

• Revelator

  Daryl Gregory

• The Interestings

  Meg Wolitzer

• To the Lighthouse

  Virginia Woolf

• Malice House

  Megan Shepherd

• Innocent Traitor

  Alison Weir

• Mongrels

  Stephen Graham Jones

• The Casual Vacancy

  J.K. Rowling

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  The Winter People

  Jennifer McMahon

• A Place For Sinners

  Aaron Dries

• The Lieutenant's Nurse

  Sara Ackerman

• Find You First

  Linwood Barclay

• The Shape of the Ruins

  Juan Gabriel Vásquez

• Future Home of the Living God

  Louise Erdrich

• Women in Love (Brangwen Family, #2)

  D.H. Lawrence

• A Caller's Game

  J.D. Barker

• China Dream

  Ma Jian

• The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)

  Philippa Gregory

• The Only Girl in the World

  Maude Julien

• The Hours

  Michael Cunningham

• The Best Friend: A Novel

  Jessica Fellowes

• Full Disclosure

  Camryn Garrett

• Bitter Falls (Stillhouse Lake, #4)

  Rachel Caine

• The Fever

  Megan Abbott

• The Firemaker (China Thrillers, #1)

  Peter May

• Butts: A Backstory

  Heather Radke

• White Nights

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

• The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)

  R.F. Kuang

• The Summer Demands

  Deborah Shapiro

• The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction

  Neil Gaiman

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  The Orchard

  David Hopen

• Such Sharp Teeth

  Rachel Harrison

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  You're Invited

  Amanda Jayatissa

• The Time Traveler's Wife

  Audrey Niffenegger

• Twice in a Blue Moon

  Christina Lauren

• Lady in the Lake

  Laura Lippman

• Jar of Hearts

  Jennifer Hillier

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  In the Quick

  Kate Hope Day

• Other People's Houses

  Abbi Waxman

• The Woman in the Library

  Sulari Gentill

• Oligarchy

  Scarlett Thomas

• Victim 2117 (Department Q, #8)

  Jussi Adler-Olsen

• The Intermission

  Elyssa Friedland

• The Bees

  Laline Paull

• Everyone Knows You Go Home

  Natalia Sylvester

• The Good Girl

  Mary Kubica

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  Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)

  Holly Jackson

• The Neighbors

  Hannah Mary McKinnon

• The Grownup

  Gillian Flynn

• Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

  Akwaeke Emezi

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  Children of Chaos

  Greg F. Gifune

• Leather Maiden

  Joe R. Lansdale

• Crossings

  Alex Landragin

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  The Glass Kingdom

  Lawrence Osborne

• Jedi Summer: With the Magnetic Kid

  John Boden

• Elizabeth I

  Margaret George

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  666 Gable Way

  Frederick H. Crook

• Hollywood Park

  Mikel Jollett

• The Fourth Monkey (4MK Thriller, #1)

  J.D. Barker

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  The Ancestor

  Danielle Trussoni

• The Bone Houses

  Emily Lloyd-Jones

• Hydra (Six Stories, #2)

  Matt Wesolowski

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  Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

  Sarah Berman

• Blood & Beauty: The Borgias

  Sarah Dunant