ICYMI: This is a gloriously oddball book with lots of heart featuring unorthodox friendships, the frightening power of social media, the...

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...

My very favorite books from May! In no particular order, here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past month:...

This is captivating without being melodramatic, romantic without any overdone elements, and wonderfully steeped in legend. This is Pike's...

Adunni is a tough young woman determined to have a voice and emerge from her oppressive situation, and she's wonderfully dogged,...

There's enough strength, redemption, and beauty amid the World War II suffering to give you warm fuzzies. After recently pulling together...

Taylor's books exploring faith and life's meaning are delights: she is wise but unassuming, knowledgeable yet open to new experiences,...

Maud Dixon offers clever twists and turns and presents interesting gray areas about the roles of hero and villain. A twisty and turny,...

Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic details of the time. Bohjalian's newest book,...

The Civil War Books This painful, terrible time in our nation's history makes for some poignant, brutal, often beautiful storytelling....

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

It's time for the foooood books! The shout-out: this Greedy Reading List theme was suggested by my lovely longtime friend, fellow book...

Robuck shaped the real-life figure of Virginia Hall into a courageous, idealistic, determined, and imperfect heroine I was intrigued by....

I laughed out loud repeatedly at Fisher's good-natured, self-deprecating, and confidently oddball views and contemplations. The Princess...

My very favorite books from April! In no particular order, here's the gist of each of the books I most loved reading during the past...

The Book of Delights is a sunshiny set of thoughts and examinations, yet it's not overly earnest, and it's never corny. I just loved it....

This sci-fi thriller is about betrayal and revenge, but it's not the other-woman story you might expect. ...no matter how much Martine...

Who likes a little rock with their reading? My friend Deyna recently mentioned revisiting Daisy Jones and the Six. I was thinking about...

In this gothic Victorian tale, Waters offers a slow build to heartbreak, twists and double twists, hesitant attempts at love, and,...

This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. On the Tasmanian coast, characters explore loss and grief and the swirling mysteries...