She spends substantial page time laying out the weaknesses of our country's health care system, and she Miller's view gets broad at times, and her focus occasionally seems to stretch beyond the scope of what

In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star

The book is a mix of inspirational stories and plant-focused recipes, many of which are sure to be kid-pleasers

But by the time Kurczy dug into some of the most alarming real-life characters from the Green Bank community

who authored Orphan Train (which I really liked) and A Piece of the World (which I loved), tells the story Kline writes a story of friendship, despair, and hope with a richly drawn Australian backdrop--while

Haig is also the author of the fiction titles The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time.

Wolk also wrote Beyond the Bright Sea, a middle-grade adventure story with sweet character development

I'm reading The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin, another debut novel, this time

The story is wonderfully interpersonally complicated. 03 One of Us Is Next by Karen M.

one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it even more fully, and I adore spending time

Now I'd like Miller to please write more books about varied topics, because I like spending time in her

These are shared as encounters in which she hears versions of life stories and imparts her condensed I felt more that I was being told things about Harper's life than that she was allowing me into her story

imagine it was difficult to manage how to address this topic without being able to give it the page time

What do I love more than a Tana French book, a retired detective story, or an Irish setting?

shares her own often-uncontrollable tendencies (eating most meals in bed and aiming to spend significant time

I loved being along for the ride as Harper's story unfolded, and I was all in for the main protagonist

adult rom-com Dungeons and Drama, about a young woman with Broadway aspirations and the nerdy game store without permission and gets grounded, she suddenly has to spend afternoons working at her father's game store

Silver offers a story with a missed-chances premise in which romance, drama, and an unwavering hope in

Green tells his funny, poignant, tech-focused story through characters' alternating viewpoints, and it

and weight of various factors on another person and their unique life, but I had somewhat of a hard time

After a terrible storm that took her mother's life, young Fable was abandoned by her father, who's a This is an immersive story, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying all of It's a wonderful opportunity for a romantic story involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope

I loved how much heart was in this story but found myself distracted by my disbelief.

wasn't sure Anna would provide parenting advice and hindsight-based tips to Emily at such a fraught time

I'm intrigued by stories of those who have left faith systems. Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

for writing, but I didn't much care about this potential issue because I loved every bit of Vivian's story

I had a really tough time with the purely evil bad guy who showed no possible redemption or depth of It was difficult to spend so much page time with such a character and in his thoughts.

Frances spends most of her page time in self-obsessed analysis and introspection or making sweeping,

This young adult science fiction story has an irresistible premise: teenaged Romy is the sole survivor

Bronwyn, Nate, Addy, and Cooper largely feel like stereotypes when the story begins, but as they become

There's extensive page time spent on ghastly monstrousness. It was really difficult to read a book with so much page time spent on abuse and violence.

I love an alternate reality story, and I thought this was a smart and lovely one.

I listened to the audiobook of this mystical fairy tale-folk story (and I loved the narrator Kathleen

irresistible Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal sidekick Sadie; Ruby, who is both a tender tie Various depraved and frighteningly cruel characters help drive the story of Things in Jars and add to

I just could not get anywhere near invested or interested in this story of years of unhappiness, relentless

Girl One reminded me at times of Body of Stars, but this book held together more successfully for me,

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank

The story involved a satisfying set of Reacher-figured-out-a-plan moments, along with somewhat of a commentary

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating

legitimately help us understand what motivates people's fanatical behaviors during this ever-restless era--a time

I have a high school senior, so maybe it's time to finally read the stack of college admissions-related

answering a few questions about your tolerance for violence, rough language, and adult content; desired time

mix of different genres I read concurrently are usually reactive--a result of my library hold list timing Are you a one-book-at-a-time reader, or do you dabble with reading different types of books at once?

This story was so much more than I expected. This story was so much more than I expected, but thankfully Napolitano didn’t rely solely on her book anything critical whatsoever about the protagonist or his plight or about anything to do with this story

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story nicely, but When a giant storm heads toward the Burlington, Vermont, boarding school do you think Stevie goes along

But when time goes by and Ada doesn't conceive a child, she is suspected of witchcraft, of causing trouble

Many issues have been raised regarding: Cummins's right and ability to tell this story as non-Latinx

I read Ford's memoir Somebody's Daughter around the same time I read the memoir Crying in H Mart by Michelle

“I suppose I could spend time theorizing how it is that people are not bad to each other, but that's

downs, her drinking-related missteps, and her failed loves (including, interestingly, a lot more page time

The story builds to show how individuals on opposite sides of the issue and of the wall are at heart The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political