This story within a story is playful and satirical while providing deep issues to contemplate. It's different and captivating and silly...

Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage...

The past timeline explores creativity, love, betrayal, and unexpected loops of consequence--which are echoed hauntingly in the present...

Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...

Geraldine Brooks's Horse digs into issues of race across three timelines, linked by a special bond between an enslaved man and a horse in...

Through various doctors' and medical experts' points of view, Martin paints a picture of a worldwide pandemic, crises and impossible...

Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel offers a dual timeline, immersive Old Hollywood detail, a forbidden love, and revelations and long-held...

Juhea Kim's looping story of Korea, courtesans, pickpockets, and the powerful figures complicating and shaping all of their lives...

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...