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Lee’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lee’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Lee Kelly
Goodreads Author
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August 2012
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City of Savages
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2015
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12 editions
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The Antiquity Affair
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2023
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4 editions
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A Criminal Magic
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2016
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5 editions
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The Starlets
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2024
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6 editions
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With Regrets
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2023
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8 editions
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My Fair Frauds
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The Midnight Show
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2026
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3 editions
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New Kelly & Thorne Book Announced – THE MIDNIGHT SHOW!
Been sitting on this for a while so I’m beyond thrilled to finally say, “It’s time for The Midnight Show!”
Our latest Lee Kelly and Jennifer Thorne collaboration hits sh...
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Lee Kelly
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The Verdant Cage
by Jess Lourey (Goodreads Author)
5 copies
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December 28, 2025
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction, Readers' Favorite Debut Novel, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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"My Fair Frauds is a dynamic historical fiction story about two women living in New York City during the time of the Gilded Age who happen to be attempting to pull off one of the biggest robberies of the time! What a unique scenario and storyline! I w"
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Lee Kelly
voted for
The Correspondent
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Readers' Favorite Debut Novel
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Final Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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"There are heists, and then there’s My Fair Frauds, which feels like someone dared The Gilded Age to go full girlboss and then said, “Bet you won’t do it in opera gloves.” This book is an elaborate con wrapped in tulle and vengeance, and the audiobook"
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"5 stars. Easiest five stars I've given in a long time. No hesitation. I knew a quarter of the way through it was a winner for me. In fact, could this be my favorite read of the year so far?
Ok, so sure, maybe I was heavily influenced by the fact that " Read more of this review » |
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“Our turn,” Joan whispers.
She sparks to life a small sphere of light, maybe the size of a globe, right above the audience’s heads. And then she breathes life into it, slowly expanding it, like she’s blowing up the world’s most brilliant, glimmering balloon.
I whisper beside her, “Incredible.” Because despite how dangerous magic can be—how it’s been used to hide murders, cover up robberies, send people spiraling into the throes of addiction—there’s just no denying that it is.”
― A Criminal Magic
She sparks to life a small sphere of light, maybe the size of a globe, right above the audience’s heads. And then she breathes life into it, slowly expanding it, like she’s blowing up the world’s most brilliant, glimmering balloon.
I whisper beside her, “Incredible.” Because despite how dangerous magic can be—how it’s been used to hide murders, cover up robberies, send people spiraling into the throes of addiction—there’s just no denying that it is.”
― A Criminal Magic
“Uncle Jed stopped sorcering manipulations around the time he lost himself to shine, but I remember this same awed feeling creeping over me and settling in, as I watched him conjure a lemon tree or shady oak in our yard. Creating something real from nothing, or protecting something with magic, or linking and binding things that have no business being linked: pure magic might only last a day, but its hold on you lasts far longer.”
― A Criminal Magic
― A Criminal Magic
“Back when the line between magic and reality was a lot more blurred, before this world started regarding sorcery with such fear and suspicion, magic was like a language among sorcerers. It was a thing to share, not a thing to hide. And for a long time, it was rumored that a worthy ring of seven sorcerers could unlock a magic within the magic. That seven was the key to strengthening gifts and surpassing weaknesses—and could even bend and flex the laws of magic itself.”
― A Criminal Magic
― A Criminal Magic
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“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
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“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
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“Uncle Jed stopped sorcering manipulations around the time he lost himself to shine, but I remember this same awed feeling creeping over me and settling in, as I watched him conjure a lemon tree or shady oak in our yard. Creating something real from nothing, or protecting something with magic, or linking and binding things that have no business being linked: pure magic might only last a day, but its hold on you lasts far longer.”
― A Criminal Magic
― A Criminal Magic
“Our turn,” Joan whispers.
She sparks to life a small sphere of light, maybe the size of a globe, right above the audience’s heads. And then she breathes life into it, slowly expanding it, like she’s blowing up the world’s most brilliant, glimmering balloon.
I whisper beside her, “Incredible.” Because despite how dangerous magic can be—how it’s been used to hide murders, cover up robberies, send people spiraling into the throes of addiction—there’s just no denying that it is.”
― A Criminal Magic
She sparks to life a small sphere of light, maybe the size of a globe, right above the audience’s heads. And then she breathes life into it, slowly expanding it, like she’s blowing up the world’s most brilliant, glimmering balloon.
I whisper beside her, “Incredible.” Because despite how dangerous magic can be—how it’s been used to hide murders, cover up robberies, send people spiraling into the throes of addiction—there’s just no denying that it is.”
― A Criminal Magic
“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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Stephanie wrote: "Hi Lee! Thanks for the friend request!! I look forward to hanging with you here on Goodreads!"Thanks Stephanie me too! ;)
Hi Lee! Thanks for the friend request!! I look forward to hanging with you here on Goodreads!
Beth wrote: "Hi Lee,Thanks for sending a friend request to this mystery author on Goodreads! I hope you will put my books,A Real Basket Case, To Hell in a Handbasket, Deadly Currents, and Wicked Eddies, on you..."
Thanks Beth! I just added your books to my list :) Looking forward to reading!
Hi Lee,Thanks for sending a friend request to this mystery author on Goodreads! I hope you will put my books,A Real Basket Case, To Hell in a Handbasket, Deadly Currents, and Wicked Eddies, on your to-read list. If you'd like to enter a contest for free mystery books, sign up for my email newsletter at: http://bethgroundwater.com/ . And, I'm giving away a copy of To Hell in a Handbasket today at: http://midnightwriters.blogspot.com/2...
- Beth
Hi Lee! I'll talk to you soon. I'm about to start Luxe too :-)
