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

The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series offers diverse characters, strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag...

Clever young Ruth survives the oppression and turmoil in colonial New England by using her wits. With rich detail about daily life and...

Betty is based on the author's family stories of difficulties, abuse, tragedies, and a hardscrabble life in the Appalachian foothills of...

Book club love! My book club has been together in some form for thirteen years, and for a good while I've been (surprise!) the Bossy...

This fast-paced suspense read is the ultimate "trouble in paradise" story, with twist and turns that kept me hooked throughout the...

Conley's book explores a mother's emotional struggle to care for her wild teenage sons and to cope in the wake of her husband's serious...

I was intrigued by the Chinese folklore influences and the story's feminist leanings, although I felt bogged down at times by...

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

Royalty, intrigue, and magically wonderful stories--even if no magic is involved (see number 1 below)! It's tough to fall in love with...

In The Distance from Four Points, Littell explores deep human connections, grief, womanhood, what strength means, the power of origins,...

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

Migrations features a tragic ecological setup of a world in which wild animals are largely nonexistent, a cold and relentless ocean...

The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The strongest aspect for me was Evans's ongoing...

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...

Leky's book is full of magical realism, friends who are like family, some absurd, fablelike elements, and an ongoing exploration of...

Klune's newest novel is heartwarming, earnest, light, and sweet, with a vision of an in-between afterlife that is surprisingly romantic,...

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

I love Elizabeth Strout's books, but I didn't feel connected to the character of Lucy or her ruminations in Oh William! the way I did in...

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