The Time-Travel Books I love a time-travel book in any genre. Time-travel and time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never...

The shadowy, eerie tone of the first title in Gillig's Stonewater Kingdom series gives way to heartwarming, sometimes funny moments as an...

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a missing-person storyline, an...

Nikki Erlick explores grief, loss, family conflicts, strangers' bonds, and sticky moral dilemmas related to a speculative-fiction...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Annalee Newitz's newest science fiction, Automatic Noodle , a novella about deactivated robots who...

Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have...

This story-within-a-story-within-a-story reveals a clever woman working within the 1920s confines of her sex to outsmart Wall Street...

Norlin draws the reader into the eerie heart of a small group living sequestered in the Swedish forest as they gradually fall into...

Bug Hollow tracks the Samuelson family from an idyllic mid-1970s Northern California summer through a tragedy that upends already-tenuous...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to literary fiction with a story within a story that's been on my to-read list for years; I'm...

Bossy Favorites of the Month It's been a solid reading month for me. My favorite reads included several books from some of my very...

Death of the Author explores the connection of an author to her work--and how a story can take on a life of its own--in this novel...

I loved the love for books in this novel, but I ultimately couldn't get past my issue with the premise, in which an actress plays the...

I'm a huge Amy Bloom fan, and while I appreciated the strong main female character here and the World War II-era crises, for me, the...

The Books I'm Reading Now I've been reading several books that surprised me, turning societal norms on their head and exploring...

Bossy Favorites of 2025 So Far I love looking back on my reads of the year to date and taking stock of my favorites. These are six of my...

This wonderfully creepy lesbian vampire story is largely about female empowerment, but also about love, discovery, reinvention, and...

I love an astronaut story, and while Reid spent far more page time on relationships than on the astronaut or space aspects, there was...

In the second installment of the series, retired CIA agents build stronger bonds with each other in rural Maine while assisting (and...

The Books I'm Reading Now I've been having a wonderful beachy break, and these are the titles I've been reading: The Summer Guests , Tess...