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

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

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...

I love Glennon's heart and her honesty, but many of these essays ended too soon for me. Doyle, the bestselling author of Carry On,...

A book I loved, in case you missed it: Wood's memoir is captivating and lovely, poignant, sweet without being overly sentimental, and...

01 With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt In Leavitt's novel, published by Algonquin Books late last summer, Simon and Stella have been...

Here For It is refreshing and playful yet thoughtful. I loved spending time with the uproariously funny Thomas. In Here for It: Or, How...

01 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled...

Crawford's memoir lays bare systemic lies, gross injustices, horrifying abuses of privilege and power, and longstanding patterns of...

Brown shares moments of reckoning, everyday evidence of yawning racial divides, and her insistent joy in embracing her black identity and...

01 Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford Crawford thought the trauma of her assault at St. Paul's boarding school decades...

This is my last book gift guide of the holiday season. I hope these lists (see links below) may have helped you find a book or two for...

Nothing happened in McMinn County unless the corrupt Machine profited by it...until the local GIs returned home from World War II and...

A Bossy book-buying note: Your local independent bookstore needs and appreciates your business now more than ever, and the staff will...

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

I would have liked more introspection, but I loved spending time in Kendrick's funny, honest, often wonderfully wacky point of view. In...

Pan is wonderfully honest, appealingly thoughtful, and often so so funny. I was so happy spending time in her point of view throughout...

Roberts reflects upon her identity and place in the world in a raw and genuine way that I found gripping. Keena Roberts grew up splitting...

01 The Exiles Christina Baker Kline, who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the...

Wizenberg struggles to reconcile her identity, sexuality, love, and duty into an honest lifestyle.