I was intrigued by the Chinese folklore influences and the story's feminist leanings, although I felt bogged down at times by...

This collection of previously published Sedaris works is a gold mine of discomforting, edgy, offbeat observations--with more heart than I...

Rooney plunges the reader into uncomfortably claustrophobic and microscopically examined moments in Conversations with Friends I listened...

Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate...

The Guncle is full of heart and humor, quirky family love, and fun references to musicals and movies--yet Rowley also offers poignancy,...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wiley Cash's upcoming Southern mystery, When Ghosts Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's...

The moments of redemption aren’t too easy, and I found the various threads building toward the amazing ending to be satisfying and...

Small moments in this young adult book ring true, and the story feels primarily about relationships, set against a witchy background. In...

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

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

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

Ta-da! My very favorite books from March! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month: a beautiful story of heartbreak...

Heard's young adult thriller was a lightning-fast read, and there's a yearning for connection between the two main protagonists that...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading three books that are about to be published: Cory Anderson's debut, a dark young adult novel about...

North provides intrigue, an exploration of gender and power roles, tales of unconventional friendship, and enough shoot-outs and danger...

Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...

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

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

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...