My very favorite November reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: Renaissance-set historical fiction, two historical...

ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, with compelling past and present...

McCracken straddles the line between novel and memoir in a work whose heart is a love letter to her extraordinary mother. The author...

Kevin Wilson's wonderfully odd 1990s coming-of-age novel centers around teens Frankie and Zeke, their mysterious artistic creation, and...

Book club love! These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. We also read Betty, We Are Not Like Them, All Her Little...

ICYMI: Graham Moore tells a historical fiction tale based on real events surrounding the rise of the light bulb--with compelling...

I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia, and richly developed major...

This first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery series offers not only an irresistible heroine, but a...

Geraldine Brooks's Horse digs into issues of race across three timelines, linked by a special bond between an enslaved man and a horse in...

Marcellus the octopus is the very deserving star of the show here, and being able to predict much of where the story was headed didn't...

Filled with sometimes playful, often weighty questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect makes considering ethics and morality...

Hawker offers irresistible details of daily life and historical elements that add vivid layers to this story of Utah Territory,...

Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter. It's magical and...

In and among Sedaris's oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal...

ICYMI: I loved being along for the ride with Moyes's five strong women characters as they traveled through the wilds of Kentucky in...

Former child actress McCurdy's account of her mother's narcissistic, harmful, abusive behavior and how it has shaped the author's life is...

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, is a complex, fascinating, gruesome story full of action and shifts in...

Chambers's slim book explores a man's search for meaning--and how a robot's simple questions about maintaining the status quo might open...

Carley Fortune offers a satisfying story of coming home, young love, mistakes and redemption, romance, lake life, and some past and...

In Lucy by the Sea, familiar Strout characters Lucy Barton and her ex-husband William flee New York City for rural Maine during the...