This book is Yip-Williams's powerful farewell to her family, but it's also valuable for anyone considering meaning in their own life.

Anappara captures the myriad sights, sounds, smells—and complicated network of politics and power—in an impoverished Indian neighborhood.

This was creepy and smart and kept me hooked, wondering if the characters were who they said they were. Libby Jones was adopted as an...

I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy. Vern! What I love love loved about...

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight trilogy.

This is beautiful, powerful, illuminating, and heart-wrenching.

I found it interesting that Schwab doesn't make you feel especially sympathetic toward either Victor or Eli. This is the second in...

Vance shares his unlikely, circuitous route to an emotionally and financially stable adult life. In Hillbilly Elegy, Vance mainly shares...

This is a quick read that addresses serious matters—betrayal, loyalty, duty, trust, and love, with a little sleuthing and romance.

This one wasn't for me. I read half but didn't finish this second in the Monsters of Verity series. Look at that beautiful cover! I tried...

This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. I loved it. Oh, this book! In Other Lands is...

In Leaving the Witness, Amber Scorah takes the reader into her confidences and lays bare her sheltered experiences, religious...

Vera and Edith are such a complementary WWII partnership, and I loved spending time with these strong young friends.

Nazemian takes the reader to a powerful time in NYC through the experiences of characters that I cared about. Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love...

Wong’s reflections on growing up, the influence of her Asian culture, and starting out and making her way in comedy were the highlights for

Hoffman made me feel anchored to the characters and the emotions, concerns, and life-and-death decisions the three women grappled with....

This was the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading. I was totally hooked. This was the type of book I could’ve stayed up...

I love a peek at a secret world, and here Walder offers fascinating glimpses of her life as a CIA and an FBI agent.

Although the three interconnected women faced sometimes staggeringly tragic challenges, Spera injects moments of joy and wonderful...

Warren digs deeply into the realities of doubting his faith, God, his life’s work, and his vision of an afterlife. This book made me cry...