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...

01 The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda Arden Maynor was a small child when she sleepwalked into a storm and was washed away. Three...

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

01 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden This is an ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story that takes place within a small...

I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...

01 A Burning by Megha Majumdar “Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening? But now I am knowing that there is no use...

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

01 The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone...

This slim, intriguing book packs a punch, featuring revenge fantasies mixed with magical realism. Lucy and Jake are the parents of two...

01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...

A book I loved, in case you missed it! Jesuits in space find extraterrestrial life--and explore the limits of their faith. This is unlike...

Addie grapples with what it means to only be able to whisper in the world rather than shout. What is the value of a life that must be...

There's brutality and bravery in this spooky tale--and the atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town setting created an eerie,...

01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee, are coming home after fighting in...

Lu offers complex motivations, clashes between idealism and realism, editorialization about class and race, and futuristic advancements...

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine, a little romance, and lots of...

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...

01 Fable by Adrienne Young There's a freckle-faced young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne...

01 To Sleep in a Sea of Stars I'd like to mention up front that To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is 878 pages, so if you never hear from me...