Megan Abbott Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Megan Abbott is a novelist. NYT Bestselling author of BEWARE THE WOMAN (5/30), THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on @netflix

The Accomplice
Lisa Lutz
Happy pub day to @lisalutz, whose brilliant new novel THE ACCOMPLICE comes out today. Twisty, mordant, deeply funny and utterly beguiling, it's a dark gem. Get yours! https://twitter.com/SLCL/status/1485644426600923144
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saint of the Narrows Street
William Boyle
A tragic crime opera transplanted to Gravesend, Brooklyn, it shattered me. You will love it.
Hardcover, 2025
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Scoundrel
Ron Sharrow
Happy pub day to the brilliant @sarahw , whose extraordinary new book, SCOUNDREL, is a must-read. True crime at its very best, its richest and most revelatory--about crime and justice but also about the genre itself. Get it! https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/1496099005213904899
Paperback, 2011
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Windfall: A Novel of Suspense
Wendy Corsi Staub
Happy pub day to the brilliant @WendyCorsiStaub, whose spectacular, nail-biting new novel WINDFALL comes out today. I loved this book so much. It's so addictive yet full of emotional heft and earned surprises. ❤️❤️ @WmMorrowBooks https://t.co/o2xlMEN5s1
Paperback, Large Print, 2023
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winterland
Rae Meadows
Though it covers 25 years, three continents...“Winterland” is a novel of intimacies in small spaces: the tactile pleasure of enjoying strawberry candies, cuddling close with a fellow gymnast, of Anya’s father braiding her hair.
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Red Riding Hood
Paul Galdone
“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.” Happy birthday, the incomparable Paul Newman ... 📸Mark Kauffman, 1967 https://t.co/mVuUkBkNI8
Hardcover, 2012
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Windfall: A Novel of Suspense
Wendy Corsi Staub
MASTERFUL. I couldn't get enough of @WendyCorsiStaub's forthcoming WINDFALL, which consumed my weekend. Gothic twists & turns & corkscrews, along with such intricate psychological acuity about the secrets women keep and why. Get yours this July....🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/EGspu09k0N
Paperback, Large Print, 2023
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay Gresham
In 1962, William Lindsay Gresham took his own life in the same Times Square hotel where he wrote much of his classic NIGHTMARE ALLEY 16 years earlier. Purportedly, these cards were in his pocket: https://t.co/qJVlVcx2jf
Paperback, 2010
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Time Tomorrow
Emma Straub
An impossibly charming profile of an impossibly charming writer. I can't wait to read @emmastraub's THIS TIME TOMORROW, out today, thank goodness ❤️❤️ https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1526436185475887105
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
“Whenever the Godfather opened his mouth, I heard the voice of my mother. She was a fairly ruthless woman.” Happy birthday, the divine Mario Puzo … 📸Daniel Kramer, Beverly Hills Hotel, 1972 https://t.co/aOz0WW5Pan
Hardcover, 2002
$34.70$17.35 + Free shipping50% off your first book