Grab your umbrellas, weather radios, and ghost traps because, not only is there a deluge headed our way in this forecast, there is a ghost haunting us. Ghost author or ghost writer? Perhaps it’s better not to ask it as it lurks in this episode and brings a bonus novel it wrote. Catch the ghost before the rains finish falling in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

This podcast was not sponsored nor elicited. All books were selected by the host for inclusion in this podcast. URLS for the books in this episode will be included on www.readersforecast.com (soon — under construction).

Publishing Week: 5 May 2026

Major retailers:

• Barnes & Noble (all formats)
• Rakuten Kobo (ebook & audiobook)
• eBooks.com (ebooks only)
• Amazon.com (all formats)

Books included in this weeks forecast by Title & Author (* debut author)

1) Homebound by Portian Elan *

2) At Sea by Y. M. Abel-Magied

3) Good News by Alexa Yasemin Brahme *

4) John of John by Douglas Stuart

5) Shards of Silence by Brian Young Lee

6) The Girl with a Thousand Face by Sunyi Dean

7) The Young Will Remember by Eve J. Chung

8) Change of Plans by Sarah Dessen

9) Enormous Wings by Laurie Frankel

Bonus: a mystery novel written by a mysterious deceased author