Hard work, interest, and commitment are essential to achievement, and Duckworth traces her research and offers interviews with various...

I loved the idea of a relationship story told in reverse, but Out of Love touched on weighty topics that seemed to warrant deeper...

Hanan's 1980s Irish coming-of-age story is full of angst, secrets, life-and-death danger, youthful determination--and the feeling that...

In Admissions, Kendra James explores race, friendship, ambition, and the absurdities and rhythm of daily life during her time at a New...

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour of Hollywood, and it details the...

The wilderness and isolation of the story combined with the looming dangers posed by the outside world make These Silent Woods feel...

You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs in an immersive video game and...

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

Rooney plunges the reader into uncomfortably claustrophobic and microscopically examined moments in Conversations with Friends I listened...

Haig is vulnerable and specific in his short memoir about his own experiences with mental illness and depression--and he shares the small...

Miller outlines many of the frightening, difficult, relentless aspects of coping with a chronic illness. She lays a journalistic view...

Wilson's bubbly personality comes through in these essays, and her show business experiences were interesting, but I often couldn't...

The Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, atmosphere of Shoulder Season was a standout element, but the characters' interactions and some of the...

I enjoyed revisiting characters from Ink & Sigil, but I felt bogged down by recounted stories and detailed logistics, and I missed the...

More Memoirs I've Loved I love a good memoir, one that offers a glimpse or a deep dive into the life and pivotal experiences of another...

Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in the wild. Characters' careless...

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

Castillo's Amish setting is intriguing, I didn't see the resolution of the mystery coming, and I was kept engaged while listening to...

The various Sarahs of Cohen's stories take on frequently unorthodox searches for self and meaning--while coping with versions of the...

This is a fast, compelling read, and I tore through it at top speed to find out the Big Reveals. I predicted some of the story, but other...