01 Leaving the Witness In Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences...

Beach Read is a gem for your light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era reading list.

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

The playful and absurd are presented as everyday occurrences, and supernatural events are regularly intermingled with sassy detective work.

I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel--the first in a series--from Gail Carriger.

ear Emmie Blue is satisfying, heartwarming escapism without inspiring any irritation at too-convenient or outlandish events.

01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...

The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.

This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks have power; hobgoblins...

Six books in Nordic settings to knock your socks off.

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction in which bubbles of hope emerge.

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.

Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.

Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.

In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.

Mitchell expertly builds the band members into rich characters you're rooting for. More very welcome David Mitchell universe madness.

Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

In A Woman Is No Man, Rum explores the often powerless and voiceless status of her conservative Palestinian female characters.