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📚 11 BOOKS I COULDN’T PUT DOWN 📚 You know those books that make you forget about everything else? The ones that keep you up way past your bedtime, make you ignore your to-do list, and have you saying “just one more chapter” until suddenly you’ve finished the entire book? These are 11 of those books for me! Every quote here comes straight from my original Goodreads reviews. There’s a little bit of everything. I’ve included romance, fantasy, contemporary fiction, literary fiction, and thrillers so there is a book recommendation for every reader. Have you read any of these? What’s the last book you absolutely couldn’t put down? Save this post for your next reading binge! #Bookstagram #BookedAndLovingIt #BookRecommendations #BooksICouldntPutDown ReadingRecommendations
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📦 MID-WEEK CHECK-IN with a TWIST: Which book would you love to find in a surprise book box? 🙏🏻 Thanks to @aboxofstories for sending me this amazing Crime, Mystery & Thriller Box! ✨ FOUR SURPRISE BOOKS: ▫️No Mercy 🖋️ by @neil_lancaster_crime ▫️Once More From The Top 🖋️ by @emilylayden ▫️Guilty by Definition 🖋️ by susiedent ▫️Beautiful People 🖋️ by @amanda_jennings1 🔑 You can use my rep code VERAHBOOKS for your subscription! ❓What was the last bookish package you unboxed? — Or tell me: Last • Now • Next! #ABoxOfStories #thrillerbooks #crimebooks #mysterybooks #subscriptionbox
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July reads ⛱️ This was a great month of reading! I read books that were so fun, books that were heartbreaking, and a few that were both! What did you read in July? What was your favorite book this month? #reading #books #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #summervibes☀️
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🩸 THRILLER THURSDAY: Crime, Mystery & Thriller Box!* 🙏🏻 Thanks to @aboxofstories for sending me this amazing box! — I’m so looking forward to reading all this box choices! 👉🏼 A subscription box that include: Four Surprise Books Inside ✨ BOOKS INCLUDED IN THIS BOX: ▫️No Mercy — by @neil_lancaster_crime ▫️Once More From The Top — by @emilylayden ▫️Guilty by Definition — by susiedent ▫️Beautiful People — by @amanda_jennings1 ⏩️ Swipe to see all the details of each one! 🔑 Use my rep code VERAHBOOKS for your subscription! ❓Are you subscribed to any book boxes? — Do you usually read new books right away, or which book has been on your TBR the longest? #ABoxOfStories #thrillerbooks #mysterybooks #crimebooks #booksbox 🤍 𝔾𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕥𝕪 𝕓𝕪 𝔻𝕖𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 — by susiedent 📅 Pub. Date: June 30, 2026 📖 Pages: 384 (𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬) ✨BLURB: “She knew there’d be ghosts in Oxford, she just didn’t think they’d make their way to the dictionary. Oxford, England. After a decade abroad, Martha Thornhill has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, where Martha is a newly hired senior editor, it’s rapidly clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the coded letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year.  The date can mean only one thing: the summer Martha’s brilliant older sister Charlie went missing.  When more letters arrive, Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, and soon, the mystery becomes ever more insistent and troubling. Because it seems Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret, and someone may be trying to lead the lexicographers towards the truth that will unravel the mystery of her disappearance. But other forces are no less desperate to keep their secrets well and truly buried, and Martha and her team must crack the codes before it’s too late.” 🤍 𝔹𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕦𝕝 ℙ𝕖𝕠𝕡𝕝𝕖 — by @amanda_jennings1 📅 Pub. Date: December 9, 2025 📖 Pages: 352 (𝘗𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬) ✨BL
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Cape Cod Summer so far ☀️ Currently eating: ice cream 🍦 from @sundaeschoolicecream Currently reading: All Girls by @emilylayden Currently watching: waves 🌊 #summervibes☀️ #capecod #bookstagram #icecream #books
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These days all I do is… read. 📚 In the kitchen, in bed, curled up in the living room, pretending I’m being productive in the library. If I’m home, I’ve got a book in my hand or an audiobook in my ear. At this point, it’s less of a hobby and more of a lifestyle choice. Current stack has me fully booked and busy: Along Came Amor AutoCorrect Stupid TV Be More Funny Once More From the Top Last Night Was Fun Seven Year Itch Her Many Faces The Briar Club and somehow I’m already thinking about what’s next. At this point, I don’t have hobbies, I have chapters. If you’ve read any of these, I need your thoughts immediately. And if you’ve got recs, don’t gatekeep, drop them below. #bookstagram #currentlyreading #booklover #readinglife #bookrecommendations
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Tonight was a TREAT! @katefagan3 & @emilylayden in conversation at @northshirebooks to celebrate the paperback release of Fagan's spectacular novel The Three Lives of Cate Kay 😍😎 The book was amazing & if you haven't read it, check it out! I think this one will hit with fans of... 👗The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 💌 I Hope This Finds You Well 🌊 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow 💿 90s Nostalgia ☢️ Nuclear War dystopia lovers (story within a story!!) 👧 A good story about identity Kate is a "local kid" from my area & it was beautiful to see all the love for them tonight ❤️ #catekay #reesesbookclub #katefagan #518reads #BookRecommendations
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For anyone in the 518: we are doing the paperback launch for The Three Lives of Cate Kay in Saratoga at @northshiresaratoga with @emilylayden — Feb 10 at 6 pm ET. 📚🚀
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Part 2 hmmmm upon further inspection, it seems like I may have actually had a fulfilling, accomplished year.
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2025 has been an impeccable year for both books AND music!! 📚💿 Here’s what we think you’d enjoy reading from us based on some of the biggest albums of the year ✨ The team picked some of their faves so we’ve included: ❤️‍🩹 The Art of Loving by Olivia Dean 🎠 The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift 🗽 West End Girl by Lily Allen 🐶 Man’s Best Friend by Sabrina Carpenter 🙀 Everybody Scream by Florence & The Machine 🩻 Virgin by Lorde #4thEstateBooks
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𝕋ℍℝ𝕀𝕃𝕃𝔼ℝ 𝔹𝕆𝕆𝕂 𝔽𝔼𝔸𝕋𝕌ℝ𝔼 Special thanks to @williammorrow @emilyladen & @netgalley for the #gifted eARC. This one has been on my shelf for a while. I was lucky enough to snag this from the #sceneofthecrime FB group. They're so amazing and live sharing William Morrow thrillers! This one is sure to be amazing! 𝙎𝙔𝙉𝙊𝙋𝙎𝙄𝙎 Everyone in America knows Dylan Read, or at least has heard her music. Since releasing her debut album her senior year of high school, Dylan’s spent fifteen years growing up in the public eye. She’s not only perfected her skills when it comes to lyrics and melody; she’s also learned how to craft a public narrative that satisfies her fans, her label, and the media. In the circles of fame and celebrity in which she now travels, the careful maintenance of Dylan Read pop star is often more important than the songs themselves. And so lots of people think they understand everything about Dylan Read. But what no one knows is the part of her origin story she has successfully kept hidden: her childhood best friend Kelsey vanished the year before Dylan became famous. Now, as Dylan’s at the height of her career, Kelsey’s body is found at the bottom of their hometown lake—forcing Dylan to reckon with their shared past, her friend’s influence on her music, and whether there’s more to their story than meets the eye. 𝙋𝙐𝘽 𝘿𝘼𝙔: Sep 10, 2024 ℚ𝕆𝕋𝔻❓️⁉️❓️ If you had a hit song, what would it's name be? . . . #oncemorefromthetop #williammorrow #netgalley #netgalleybacklist .
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