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S. A. Cosby
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 • New York Public Library’s Best Books of the Year • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee • Book of the Month’s Book of the Year Finalist
“Provocative, violent — beautiful and moving, too.” —Washington Post
“Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly
“A tour de force – poignant, action-packed, and profound.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.
Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.
Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed of his father's criminal record. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.
Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.
Provocative and fast-paced, S. A. Cosby's Razorblade Tears is a story of bloody retribution, heartfelt change — and maybe even redemption.
“A visceral full-body experience, a sharp jolt to the heart, and a treat for the senses…Cosby's moody southern thriller marries the skillful action and plotting of Lee Child with the atmosphere and insight of Attica Locke.” —NPR
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About 40-50% of the books I read are thrillers, so it’s about time I finally make a video of recommendations!! I got together a list of 15 thrillers that I was hooked from the start, hopefully they can help you keep reading and enjoy what you read.
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Sunny's Book Truck\ \ CJ\ \ • Aug 15 2025
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[Poll:\ \ Are any of these on your TBR?\ \ Hi nerds,\ \ Last night we held our second installment of the Sunny's Salon—a monthly addition to our event programming that is like a book club with no assigned reading. We kicked off the night by doing a 15 minute reading sprint with some lofi music playing in the background and then went into a larger discussion centered around or Last, Now, and Next. It was so fun hearing about what people were reading or had on their radar (weirdly three people wanted to read Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh next) and seeing where reading taste overlapped and differed. Below you will find 50 (!) book recommendations gathered from the Yuma community.\ \ \ \
- Endling: Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of the marriage industry to find their activist mother. As Russia invades, they embark on a wild journey with kidnapped bachelors and a last-of-its-kind snail. This darkly comic novel explores survival, love, and hope in times of encroaching darkness.\ \
- Hot Girls with Balls: In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year.\ \
- Mayra: An eerie, hypnotic debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida’s swamplands.\ \
- Empire of Pain: A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin.\ \
- Say Hello to my Little Friend: Scarface meets Moby Dick in Say Hello to My Little Friend following a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic.\ \
- I'll Make a Spectacle of You: This heart-pounding horror debut from Beatrice Winifred Iker takes listeners to Bricksbury University, the oldest and most storied HBCUs in the nation. But as one student is about to find out, a long history comes with a legacy of secrets.\ \ \ \ \
- Before Elvis: In this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley's music finally receive recognition and praise.\ \
- Nineteen Minutes: Jodi Picoult pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.\ \
- Pageboy: With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world.\ \
- Follow My Voice: This spellbinding #BookTok sensation from internationally bestselling author Ariana Godoy follows a nineteen-year-old battling agoraphobia as she forms an unexpected connection with the host of her favorite college radio show.\ \
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- The Possession of Alba Díaz: When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn’t trust…from bestselling author Isabel Cañas.\ \ \ \ \
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- Tropic of Orange: Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway.\ \
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- Lapvona: In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test.\ \
- Smothermoss: A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that threaten them and their rural mountain community.\ \
- Everything is Tuberculosis: A deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.\ \ \ \ \
- City of Quartz: In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs L.A.’s shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy.\ \
- The Coin: A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind.\ \
- How to Read a Book: A heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories.\ \
- Razorblade Tears: A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.\ \
- All the Dangerous Things: A totally gripping thriller about a desperate mother with a troubled past.\ \
- Lock Every Door: A young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays.\ \ \ \ \
- Compound Fracture: A queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.\ \
- This is Me Trying: Inevitably drawn back together by circumstance and history, Beatriz and Santiago navigate grief, love, mental illness, forgiveness, and what it means to try to build a future after unfathomable loss.\ \
- You Weren't Meant to be Human: Alien meets Midsommar in this chilling debut adult novel from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White about identity, survival, and transformation amidst an alien invasion in rural West Virginia.\ \
- Bright Young Women: Don’t miss this “breakneck thriller” that examines “our culture’s obsession with serial killers and true crime” ( Harper’s Bazaar) as it follows two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds.\ \
- The Changeling: With a new introduction by Karen Russell, the 40th anniversary edition of The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale and a work of mythic genius by one of our best writers.\ \
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Madisoncanread\ \ Madison\ \ • Jul 11 2025
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It was a weird reading year, but this is a good top 10. Join me over on Bindery! http://mareas.binderybooks.com
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2:12 - 5:18 What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61399125-what-happened-to-ruthy-ramirez cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/3a80ed5e-f331-4940-b446-2f12880e8a68/content\_warnings
5:19 - 9:00 Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canes goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63892214-vampires-of-el-norte cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8828d690-3095-4494-b522-ad74b6181fe7/content\_warnings
9:01 - 10:53 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54860585-razorblade-tears cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6fb4d85-f8fd-4ee8-aa9a-8710c4747c2a/content\_warnings
10:54 - 14:14 Swordheart by T. Kingfisher goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42747739-swordheart cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/74dc9e39-6751-404a-a597-e9850c122981/content\_warnings
14:15 - 18:56 Happy Place by Emily Henry goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61718053-happy-place cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/084df628-75a9-4357-a928-b0547027122d/content\_warnings
18:57 - 24:29 Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42036538-gideon-the-ninth cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ca07b067-8c64-4b8e-985c-52efc4b94f3e/content\_warnings
24:30 - 25:26 How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55643287-how-the-word-is-passed cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/972c00b3-593f-429e-b306-7e791aa07107/content\_warnings
25:27 - 27:58 How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59808037-how-not-to-drown-in-a-glass-of-water cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ea9c3b31-47c2-4c95-981d-58922acebfe5/content\_warnings
27:59 - 31:39 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52045757-minor-detail cw: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/02f1e0b2-3244-471a-b916-a18f1fe83c44/content\_warnings
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