The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an uncle caring for his young niece...

My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. The list skews toward light fiction,...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting to reintroduce...

More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...

Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in the wild. Characters' careless...

Walker offers a terrifying, disturbing premise--but I was fascinated with the character depth, explorations of grief, and the twist I...

Teenaged April has been dealt a difficult hand in life, and watching her struggle to make her way and connect with others in Allison...

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...

This is a brutally violent story shadowed with heartbreaking regret. It's a fast read, and after my love of Blacktop Wasteland last year,...

Young adult Josie's origins--specifically her immaculate conception--have overshadowed everything else in her life. Now she must delve...

Lee shapes a lovely, tragic, wonderfully detailed story around the forgotten, real-life figure of Andrew Green and his essential...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a romantic book about aspiring musicians with intertwined pasts; the rich fictional history of an...

ICYMI: MacArthur's stories, set in rural Vermont, are tragic, beautiful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. MacArthur, who is from Vermont...

I love Young's tone and her characters. Namesake was fantastic, and I wish more books were coming in this series. Namesake is the second...

Axelrod offers a light fiction romance that's heavy on engaging passages about making music, band life, and tricky interpersonal...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a...

Coates took his time building the story, and I felt as though he deliberately kept us in a plodding pace to emphasize the unwavering,...

This is a fast, compelling read, and I tore through it at top speed to find out the Big Reveals. I predicted some of the story, but other...

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

ACOTAR often read like a romance novel featuring fairies; I listened to this as an audiobook and admit that at times I shrieked when I...