The emotions and drives of the story feel real, but the tone is darkly playful. I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he...

01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...

Johansen offers peeks at her characters' pasts as well as the forces that shaped the Tearling, and she plays with time and reality to...

There's enough injustice and crooked dealing in this captivating book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title...

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 Child Finder by Rene Denfeld This book is dark and beautiful, with such expansive descriptions of the mountains, the closed-in...

Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. The twists and turns here are excellent,...

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 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...

A book that fascinated me, in case you missed it! This was often brutal to read, but it was beautifully written, in a style that felt...

Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...

What if you woke up from a coma and felt differently about almost everything, including the person you're supposed to love? In Leavitt's...

01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...

A book I loved, in case you missed it! I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers....

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

Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing...

01 Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Oh, Olive! In Olive, Again, she ambles through town and reflects on aging, on her life, and...

A book I loved, in case you missed it: I loved the deep friendship; details of outdoorsy expertise and adventuring; and life-and-death...

Young Vivian's carousing in 1940s New York City is entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in the era. In...