Killers of a Certain Age was darkly funny, action-packed, feminist, and friend-focused. I love the second installment's return to my...

I love Peter Heller's books, and Burn offers a wonderfully complicated friendship, meaningful connections to nature, momentous secrets,...

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other in the trenches serves as...

Sarah Grunder Ruiz serves up an irresistible rom-com with great banter and with interesting and difficult, complex issues of loss, grief,...

This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...

LaValle mixes a Western setting with strong feminist messages, magical realism, haunting elements, and the terrifying, freeing truth in...

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E. Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of...

This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery with a neurodivergent main protagonist, small-town...

Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative peek into a gritty period, as her main protagonist escapes a bad...

Despite the many outlandish details of Iris's situation and ongoing secrets, I was taken with the sweet family relationships and the...

In the second installment in Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series, Alex is as brave, scowling, and unapologetic as ever--and Darlington will...

Caroline O'Donoghue's coming-of-age story celebrates friendship, young love, and life-changing decisions and missteps that shape the...

Rowley brings humor to this heartwarming--but never cloying--exploration of friendship, connection, messy relationships, heartbreak, and...

Summertime is the backdrop to Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake, light fiction with an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes,...

Sutanto's Vera Wong is playful, brusque, bossy, and connects an unlikely cast of characters, all murder suspects, into a heartwarming...

Newman offers a heartbreaking and heartwarming tribute to friendship that centers around witty dialogue, unconventional arrangements,...

Zamora's memoir of his grueling journey from El Salvador to the United States without family at age nine keeps the reader within each...

Addison Allen's magical realism story is set on an island off the coast of South Carolina and offers lots of heart, interactive ghosts,...

Chakrabarti offers characters with complex struggles, hopes, and haunting memories who work to form deep, heartwarming connections in...