Aren't young adult books just the best? Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. The main protagonists are...

What I'm Reading Now: Three Fun Fantasy Stories I'm reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases excellent dark humor within...

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books offers that very thing. Only...

Do you love memoirs like I do? I love digging into the story of someone's life--notable because of chance, circumstance, or choice--and...

Whitaker's story builds into a tale of heartbreak and desperate hopes for redemption that folds back upon itself with unexpected turns...

The emotions and drives of the story feel real, but the tone is darkly playful. I loved spending time with main protagonist Eli as he...

01 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy The Skylark's Secret has a dual timeline; the story is set in rural Scotland during World War II...

I loved this. Romy's soaring hopes, her vulnerability and then her growing doubts, her self-reliance and quick thinking, and the shifts...

Hart reliably offers character-driven mysteries with heartbreaking interpersonal complications. The twists and turns here are excellent,...

01 The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden This is an ancient-feeling, dark fairy tale of a story that takes place within a small...

I was especially taken with the sisters' complicated relationships and with the link Harrow draws between witching and the women's...

The kingdom's evils are intensely detailed and extensively explored; this motivates characters to seek change, but also made the book...

01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered, strong woman fighting for a...

Evaristo offers a set of twelve interconnected stories about Black women in contemporary Britain and their friendships, loves, struggles,...

01 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee In the early 1900s, a teenager falls for a silver-tongued stranger on the coast of Korea. But when the...

A book I loved, in case you missed it! I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers....

Gardner's brand-new character-driven mystery offers an imperfect, unassuming heroine obsessed with solving the cold cases of missing...

01 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019 for this novel, which I'm listening to as an audiobook...

Crawford's memoir lays bare systemic lies, gross injustices, horrifying abuses of privilege and power, and longstanding patterns of...

01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists, and I loved this book. Nina...