Discounted for September 2025: Captivating Literary Books You Don’t Want to Miss!

What begins as a car crash into a sculpture of a cowgirl spirals into an interconnected web of relationships, deceit, and tragedy. In the trunk of the car are two dead bodies, and 19-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is arrested for the murders.

His 16-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis, becomes fascinated with the case, digging into all the details online, despite never owning a cellphone previously. 

Soon, other lives are affected, including a retired police officer who is pulled into the case, Nick’s alcoholic mother taking on a new role, and a young journalist returning home.

One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year, the slow unwinding of the crimes and those involved forces Emily’s father, the town sheriff, to come to terms with the biggest secret of all, in an explosive conclusion.

Selected as a Kirkus Reviews Indie Book of the Month, the story follows Rachel Klein, a Jewish woman and resistance worker, navigating the invasion of Nazi soldiers in Amsterdam. When the Nazis bomb her city on May 10, 1940, Rachel’s life as she knew it is gone. 

She’s eighteen and in love with a Gentile, who is increasingly participating in student protests. But, as Nazi terror rises, he has to go into hiding, and Rachel decides to become involved in her own way, delivering illegal papers throughout Amsterdam.

Soon, she too will be forced into hiding, where she learns new things about herself, a new man, and above all, courage. 

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author comes a tale of women through generations, navigating fortunes and upsets, with happiness always as life’s objective. Before Meredith Harper passed away, he made millions in rum that he left behind to his descendants. 

Now, this group of women must traverse their privilege over decades. Whether travelling to Europe or overcoming divorce, the Harper women routinely endeavor to seek fulfilment.

And yet, they always find themself returning to Harper and the legacy his money leaves behind. 

Described by The New York Times as “[a] novel as ambiguous and fascinating as life itself,” a love triangle forms between three unlikely characters, each grappling with identity and sexuality. When her girlfriend leaves her for someone else, grad student Leslie decides to follow her thesis advisor to Detroit.

There, she meets Honor, only for familiar feelings to surface. But rather than acting on this desire, she begins a sexual relationship with Honor’s older friend, Bernard, a gay former street hustler, who also harbors similar sentiments towards Honor.

Trying to survive in a city with little opportunity, while coming to terms with themselves and each other, the three erupt on harrowing journeys. 

Hermione Beldame has done it all: an illustrious career writing romance novels, four marriages, and numerous love affairs. But when she meets George Johnson, a younger man and journalist, at a party, she is swept off her feet like never before.

From Manhattan to the Hamptons, Hermione embarks on a summer of desire and pleasure, which causes her to reflect on her past life choices.

Setting her on a quest to live the present moment to the fullest, Hermione resolves to find out what she wants, while also learning more about this charming, secretive man. 

On a whim, Tina Martin, a busy mother of two, decides to move to Shanghai, in pursuit of the bliss she’s seen in the infomercials.

But soon she realizes that achieving inner peace is not as simple as she once thought, and exhibits compulsive behavior like stealing her delivery man’s shoes and spraying a neighbor with water.

Once she befriends a tai instructor, a sexy Mandarin tutor, and several mah-jongg experts, Tina begins to immerse herself in the culture, takes up an unconventional job, and becomes closer to her dream life than she ever thought possible. 

Brothers Armand and Christopher Bouchard are in conflict: at stake is their family’s expansive ammunition empire. Peter, their brother, and his wife, Celeste, arrive to ease the tensions, but war is again on the horizon, threatening to begin the darkest years in history.

But the Bouchards have always come out victorious in difficult times, which is why Henri Bouchard throws himself into the conflict.

While dealing with powers within his own family and beyond, Henri finds himself making his way back to his first love, Celeste—in the final novel that began with Dynasty of Death.

Sara and Daniel make the spontaneous decision to pack up their car and cats, making the move from Manhattan to the woods of Eastern Canada. With the hopes of running a homestead, the pair quickly comes to realize nature has its own plan.

But they soon come to warm up to the locals, at first seeming like crazy rednecks, then emerging as charismatic neighbors. And with the gift of a long-awaited baby, Sara and Daniel will fall in love all over again.