A.G. Riddle's time-travel story centers around reconciling the inability to change what has already occurred, but the necessity of doing...

The second book in Marske's series is an irresistible queer magical mystery thriller with Edwardian England details, racy encounters,...

I wished for more of a focus on the character of Tess and her personal story--and less on political strategies, power plays, and the many...

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, is a complex, fascinating, gruesome story full of action and shifts in...

Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining the status quo might open...

In Nethercott's Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine and Isaac Yaga find their way back to each other within this odd, dark story...

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic and dystopian books, and I think it's for the same reason I'm...

The first book in Blanchet's Neath trilogy offers a bizarre dark underworld; cruelty and revenge; an unlikely hero; and heartwarming...

The Humans is about mathematics, aliens, and shape shifters, but at its heart it's about a hurting family and an unimaginable, shocking,...

The second installment in Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series is satisfying and comfortable, as Bree becomes more powerful,...

Main protagonist Logan was hard for me to emotionally connect to, but I was hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined...

The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue and banter, and...

Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends like family, and reimagining one's place in...

More Science Fiction Faves I love character-driven science fiction stories. Sci-fi books can be so lovely and weird and immersive, and...

Vaishnavi Patel's debut is a captivating retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main...

With intriguing questions about loyalties and motivations, gutsy skirmishes, deep friendships, familial duty, and a smoldering romance...

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

In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a...

Rachel Hartman's young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender...

Science Fiction Faves I've been giving book talks lately about stories I've loved and upcoming titles I'm excited about, and I've seen...