Brown's signature immersive details and wonderfully imagined, rich characters bring Depression-era scenes to life against an irresistible...

In this nested story that spans centuries, Mandel explores a pandemic, moon colonization, the universal connection of music, the...

Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. These interconnected stories are odd, fascinating,...

King builds each story within Five Tuesdays in Winter to be full, rich, and full of pain and poignancy. I loved this collection. In Lily...

My very favorite books from October! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I included an immersive memoir...

Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land was a complex, heartbreaking, hope-filled, surprising, fascinating read. Forgetting, he is learning, is how the...

Riley has crafted a middle-grade fantasy book with humor, adventure, characters to root for, and heart and depth that surprised me. I'll...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The People We Keep, Allison Larkin's upcoming novel about a young protagonist shaping her life...

The Second-Chance Books I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again, redo...

Shipstead has created two independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time. I was hooked on both story lines and just...

The dark, seemingly bottomless water is the standout, creepy element here: a source of relentless, hungry power that straddles the worlds...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading three books that are about to be published: Cory Anderson's debut, a dark young adult novel about...

Characters cope with lost dreams and find ways to (often clumsily) come together through their shared pain. The vibrancy of Beirut is...

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...

01 Machinehood by S.B. Divya In her debut novel, Divya offers a society set in 2095. Humanity is reliant on homemade and commercially...

Johansen offers peeks at her characters' pasts as well as the forces that shaped the Tearling, and she plays with time and reality to...

Valpy's detailed Scottish setting and character development are wonderful, and I was equally invested in and engaged by both of the...

01 Skyhunter by Marie Lu My copy of the book unfortunately does not have this gorgeously mesmerizing cover. But I'm still excited to read...

I love an intersection of historical fiction and mystery, two genres I love. Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements.

This is a spooky, atmospheric, gothic Victorian ghost story perfect for the season.