Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened,...

ICYMI: Poet Elizabeth Alexander writes a gorgeous account of her love affair with her husband and the trauma of his sudden death in a...

ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces her Appalachian youth, offering...

Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir in which she explores her musical influences and...

Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes,...

Gillian McAllister offers a smart, intriguing, twisty story that plays with time and offers second chances, revelations, betrayals, deep...

ICYMI: Sittenfeld shapes fully realized, fascinating characters that stuck with me in the ten stories of You Think It, I'll Say It. I...

The transcripts of 200 audio files make up much of the novel, and I had difficulty feeling invested in this structure, which felt more...

White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island, with two women attempting to piece...

The premise and setting of The Secret Book of Flora Lea are captivating. I was distracted by what felt like overly dramatic dialogue and...

A former artist-in-residence at a hospice, MacNaughton distills the process of witnessing a loved one's end of life into a few elements...

Sutanto's Vera Wong is playful, brusque, bossy, and connects an unlikely cast of characters, all murder suspects, into a heartwarming...

Frazier offers an immersive story that morphs from a WPA-funded rural art commission to a leisurely country-wide search, an unlikely...

Read's debut novel is gorgeously written, with vivid details of mid-century Colorado, moments that change everything, impossible...

Mary Otis's debut novel explores the complicated mother-daughter relationship between alcoholic, erratic Charlotte and rigid,...

Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served as an...

I love a book about books, but I was confused as to why the characters would seek out and spend prolonged time with the verbally abusive,...

Six longtime friends gather for one last Maine vacation--but each of them has been keeping secrets that impact their relationships. The...

Holes's account of the dogged determination and attention to detail--as well as the cost to his personal life--involved in discovering...

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is...