Colin Jost retraces his journey toward and through his fifteen seasons at Saturday Night Live and offers insights that I found absorbing.

This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction e

Harper is appealingly centered despite upheaval in her life, but I didn't feel drawn into her admittedly interesting experiences.

The women's lifelong friendship felt like the heart of the story and was a fantastic element.

The title of the book feels like an important assertion from Lucy; she is finally owning who she is--her story, choices, and essence.

Lydia had planned to spend the rest of her life with her fiance; now she's coming to terms with his recent and tragic loss.

There are not many surprises here, but Center offers great escapism into a close-knit Galveston, TX, community.

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

A smart master thief who bends time and finds her loyalties dividded in turn-of-the-century New York.

In “Hard Cash Valley,” we spend page time with small-time drug dealers, cockfighting masterminds, Filipino gangsters, and crooked police.

Clavin's nonfiction book "Tombstone" traces the tensions and factors as they build to pivotal events that make Tombstone live on in infamy.

When old college friends are snowed in, truths begin to come out and uncomfortable confrontations erupt.

I loved the early twentieth century Arizona Territory setting and details, as well as Mary Pearl’s spirit, grit, and determination.

Fowler touches on some big, intriguing issues about guilt and innocence and race.

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Child's Jack Reacher eschews societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. Jack Reacher doesn’t follow...

Tallulah shifts from resenting her future and her obligations to taking charge of her life and how she intends to live it.

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...