Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a fascinating, disturbing, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful book.

Zelda has to figure out what it means to live her own legend. (I loved this book.)

A compelling Gothic suspense story that keeps you guessing.

Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.

Sloane is a perfectly imperfect heroine and things aren't entirely what they seem in Roth's first novel for adults.

Atlantic City before WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and hubbub, is the backdrop for this summer in the life of an extended family.

Macintyre presents a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and twists and turns.

Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist who finds herself entangled in a dangerous set of circumstances.

Carefully researched and documented by Farrow, with twists and turns that feel so disturbingly outlandish as to seem like fiction at times.

Murderbot shows a reluctant, grumpy ability to care for others and a desire to develop its own sense of duty and sense of self.

A mostly guileless look at stardom, motherhood, alcohol abuse, and finding herself.

Joanna and Gabe are inextricably drawn to each other and into Ursa's magically imagined world.

Brown kept me happily turning the pages to see who would get what was coming to them. Cross, double-cross! This book really hit the spot....

The issues Stevenson raises may make readers uncomfortable, but they're all worth looking at under a microscope and demanding change.

I loved the vivid setting and the strong women who find themselves in the middle of this early seventeenth century witch hunt.

Bea and her friends-like-family NYC network of loved ones, including her therapist Miriam, are endearing and wonderful.

Gideon’s speech is modern and biting, there are darkly funny moments, and the friendships and loyalty resonate in a lovely way. The tone...

This alternate-reality story is really about loyalty and devoted friendship, and it doesn't fall back on easy resolutions.