Best Of Austin® 2026 - Winners Revealed
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“To say that Kathy Hepinstall’s third novel demonstrates her accomplishment in the suspense genre doesn’t go far enough (previous books include The Absence of Nectar and The House of Gentle Men),” writes Tommi Ferguson of the author who will be at BookPeople on Tuesday, Jan. 7, at 7pm. “What distinguishes her fiction is the sincerity and candor she allows her characters.”
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“We all know that Americans don’t vote — 51% turnout, what we saw for Bush-Gore in 2000, is about as good as we get, and in most elections (like the one on Tuesday, and certainly in Austin local races), we settle for far less,” writes Mike Clark-Madison in his review of Thomas Patterson’s The Vanishing Voter. But why?
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“Often enough in Man Walks Into a Room, you get a plot description and a lesson,” writes Clay Smith of Nicole Krauss’ beguiling and haunting debut novel, about a man who loses his memory and isn’t particularly interested in getting it back.
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Alice Sebold, who will be at BookPeople on Monday, Aug. 12, has received serious accolades for The Lovely Bones. But Amanda Eyre Ward writes “whether you’re willing to listen to a narrator who is telling her story from heaven will determine how quickly you fall into that story.”

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