The Summer Favorites These titles aren't light "summer reads," but they were my favorites from a summer past, and they all stand the test...

Stout's recently published middle-grade story is irresistibly strange, full of difficulties and a tough young heroine's gritty...

Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict, and a young, gay love forged in the intensely...

Juhea Kim's looping story of Korea, courtesans, pickpockets, and the powerful figures complicating and shaping all of their lives...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery series;...

My very favorite books from May! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, which include contemporary fiction, suspense,...

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother at her same age, inspiring...

In The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh offers a twisty contemporary fiction novel and psychological thriller centered around a fascinating...

Rachel Lynn Solomon crafts another sweet, quirky, funny, romantic young adult story that plays with time and is centered around...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading See You Yesterday, the recent young adult novel that plays with time from Rachel Lynn Solomon; One...

More Science Fiction Faves I love character-driven science fiction stories. Sci-fi books can be so lovely and weird and immersive, and...

Vaishnavi Patel's debut is a captivating retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main...

“In exposing our nation’s troubled roots, the 1619 Project challenges us to think about a country whose exceptionalism we treat as the...

Jimenez offers humor, spicy moments, and romance while incorporating weighty issues into her light fiction opposites-attract story Part...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading You Have a Friend in 10A, the upcoming collection of short stories (to be published tomorrow!) from...

Memoir Love! In case you haven’t noticed yet, I have a major thing for memoirs, and I especially love listening to an author read their...

In We Are Not Like Them, Pride and Piazza dig into a friendship of opposites, conflicts around race, and a police shooting, creating a...

Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of fourteen whose radiant visions led...

With intriguing questions about loyalties and motivations, gutsy skirmishes, deep friendships, familial duty, and a smoldering romance...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading First Time for Everything, the upcoming novel (to be published tomorrow!) from Henry Fry about a...