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

The Paper Palace is atmospheric and often disturbing. I didn't understand many of the characters' motivations or reasoning so didn't feel...

Main protagonist Gifty's journey was full of challenges and not too easy or complete, and her voice had me hooked throughout Yaa Gyasi's...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller's novel about a middle-aged woman exploring other...

Summers's young adult fiction begins with a fascinating premise--sisters are torn apart by tragedy and then further separated by a...

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

I was intrigued by the wolves, and I was interested in McConaghy's exploration of the tensions between wilderness and civilization, but I...

Lange's Irish family story centers around Sunday Brennan, who has returned home to her New York hometown where her own secrets--and...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Once There Were Wolves, Charlotte McConaghy's novel about a biologist fighting to reintroduce...

Now You Say Yes is beautiful. Harley's middle-grade story about love, duty, self-discovery, disappointment, and pushing through the...

I had fun reading about the glamorous modeling-surfing-photography-music star family pedigree. But I felt as though the last hundred...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The People We Keep, Allison Larkin's upcoming novel about a young protagonist shaping her life...

Ursula unknowingly lives her life over and over again as Atkinson explores how choices large and small cause enormous repercussions for a...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm...

Krueger's writing is lovely, and while the adult characters sometimes feel like caricatures of evil villains, his young characters and...

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating, and frequently disturbing; the...

This is a great, character-driven sequel to McManus’s young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying. Last year, in McManus's great young adult...

This summer read makes you feel like you’re in safe hands, and you can be confident that nothing here will go seriously awry. The vivid...

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

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...