Bossy Favorites of the Month I've read a lot of books I've loved this month, in a range of genres. Here are my six favorites, although I...

Mandanna's is a fun magical story featuring an oddball cast of characters, satisfying justice, love, chosen family, funny dialogue, and...

Gary Shteyngart's story of an uncommonly intelligent fifth-grader, Vera, allows for a precocious child's point of view and observations...

Comedian Maria Bamford's memoir is unflinching in examining her own base impulses and personal challenges such as mental illness and...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gary Shteyngart's story of a precocious young girl finding her way in her complicated family and in...

I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie When I was compiling this list and double-checking page counts, I kept surprising myself with my own...

Sophie Elmhirst's A Marriage at Sea is the true story of a couple whose sailing trip to New Zealand becomes a fight for survival. This...

Claire Lynch's novel shapes two timelines separated by decades into an engrossing, complicated family story of forbidden love, secrets,...

This short novel explores an alternate-history, near-future, post-war San Francisco in which robots come online and create a noodle shop...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Marriage at Sea , Sophie Elmhirst's nonfiction that reads like a novel, about a couple whose...

The Time-Travel Books I love a time-travel book in any genre. Time-travel and time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never...

The shadowy, eerie tone of the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series gives way to heartwarming, sometimes funny moments as an...

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a missing-person storyline, an...

Nikki Erlick explores grief, loss, family conflicts, strangers' bonds, and sticky moral dilemmas related to a speculative-fiction...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Annalee Newitz's newest science fiction, Automatic Noodle , a novella about deactivated robots who...

Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have...

This story-within-a-story-within-a-story reveals a clever woman working within the 1920s confines of her sex to outsmart Wall Street...

Norlin draws the reader into the eerie heart of a small group living sequestered in the Swedish forest as they gradually fall into...

Bug Hollow tracks the Samuelson family from an idyllic mid-1970s Northern California summer through a tragedy that upends already-tenuous...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to literary fiction with a story within a story that's been on my to-read list for years; I'm...