HFBC Picks For Book #4
Six Thriller Books to Vote for: Holliday Farms Book Club (HFBC) Senior Session
When: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. (far away from the holidays!)
Location: Tentatively at Holliday Farms Social Club—Caldemeyer Room (Pete’s Annex next to family dinning)
We’ve navigated shipwrecks (A Marriage at Sea and technically Incredibly Bright Creatures) — now let’s dive into something faster, twistier, and full of secrets.
Choose our next fiction pick from these six thrillers everyone’s talking about.
Read the summaries, explore the authors, and cast your vote for the one you’d most like to devour next. Whether or not you attended the first three meetings, we want your input.
Voting will close on November 18, so please don’t wait!
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First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston (2025)
A Reese’s Book Club pick and runaway hit. A con artist, a mysterious boss, and a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing, and no one, are what it seems.
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave (2023)
A #1 New York Times bestseller and Apple TV series. A husband vanishes, leaving behind a cryptic note: “Protect her.” His wife and teenage daughter must uncover what he was hiding… and who he really was.
You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego (2025)
A 2025 release set at a luxurious writers’ retreat where ambition turns lethal. Six authors, one contract, and a murder before the welcome toast.
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson (2025)
From the author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder. A woman wakes up after an attack, technically dead for 13 minutes, and has seven days to solve her own attempted murder before her memory fades.
Upgrade by Blake Crouch (2022)
Crouch is one of my favorite American writers! This is a story where genetic engineering goes rogue. It combines science, family, and moral complexity. Reads like Michael Crichton with a heart.
Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza (2025)
Secrets, manipulation, and self-deception collide in this smart psychological thriller about what people hide, and how far they’ll go to keep it buried.
Did any of these titles catch your interest? They are all great picks for our HFBC next book club, so feel free to vote and add them all to your reading list!
