Sandwich is another case of beautifully wrought complications and mutual adoration from Catherine Newman, with unapologetically...

Whitaker offers several interconnected storylines, and while each one individually appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to...

ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma to get the piano of an eccentric army surgeon up and working. A good piano tuner must have knowledge not only of his instrument but of “Physics, Philosophy, and Poetics,” so that Edgar, although he never attended university, reached his twentieth birthday with more education than many who had. In 1886 England, middle-aged, shy piano tuner Edgar Drake is asked to do somethin

This love story about an emotionally sensitive NFL player and his quirky, irresistible female agent is a sweet second-chance romance...

Katherine Center offers a writing-focused story in which forced proximity, past secrets, complicated life circumstances, and a fear of...

ICYMI: Towles's closed-door tale of a Russian aristocrat under house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel manages to be at times playful,...

ICYMI: The post-Depression-era city of New York is such a powerful presence in this story, it feels like a main character. I was taken by...

Grant's thriller is set in the wilds of Idaho, with a wilderness expert of a main character who has fought to trust others and be...

Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery to this steamy interspecies romance that has lots of heart and kept...

In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly...

Flawed main characters Jack and Elizabeth try to find their way back to an emotional connection in this literary fiction work. Wellness...

The Other Valley is literary fiction with a captivating setup: three adjacent valleys, each of which is a different timeline of the same...

Just for the Summer is another Jimenez story with wonderful banter and a romantic connection that's anchored in and shaped by incredibly...

Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in...

Sarah Grunder Ruiz serves up an irresistible rom-com with great banter and with interesting and difficult, complex issues of loss, grief,...

Lynn Painter delivers funny, charming banter and an opposites-attract tension in this heartwarming rom-com about divorce, trust, blended...

Elif Shafak's The Island of Missing Trees explores past Turkish-Greek conflicts in a small island community while illustrating the...

Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite authors, but this slim, early book of hers didn't offer the candid, thought-provoking, wise...

This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...

Quinn and Chang share an adventure- and danger-laden story of women artists, women of color, and women of various social classes in San...