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The new drinking game at PL’s virtual HQ is that every time we spot another prominent “Best Books of 2025” list, at least one of us posts on Slack, “weird list”. With no dominant titles — last year Percival Everett’s JAMES was always the clear book of the year, and Hanif Abdurraqib’s THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR was the leading work of nonfiction — each individual list this year seems quirkier than ever. But when we apply our tried-and-true methodology of combining selective lists from all over — critics, retailers, booksellers, librarians, book clubs and more — suddenly a perfectly reasonable …
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NYT-bestselling author of MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT Nina Simon's MY SISTER IS GOING TO KILL ME, another family-centered whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon, to Liz Stein at William Morrow, in a major deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in August 2026, by Stefanie Lieberman at Janklow & Nesbit (world English).
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