Douglas Stuart’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain is a marvelous feat of storytelling, a mix of tender emotion and grisly violence.
With her debut novel, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry does the reader a great service, offering a peek behind the Iron Curtain and its veil of propaganda.
A young violinist searches for a priceless Stradivarius in Brendan Slocum’s fast-paced thriller.
Kai Harris’ young heroine’s presence glows and grows, like the fireflies she catches with her grandfather, like her understanding of the world around her.
Kalki isn’t the 10th human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, but few people know that.
Louise Nealon’s Snowflake is one of the most heartwarming, honest and brilliant coming-of-age novels you will read this year.
As a child, Vidya “wanted to be marked, altered, changed. Split open,” and by the end of Shruti Swamy’s novel, she is.
Rémy Ngamije’s narrator, Séraphin, is an incisive, funny and keen social observer, so inside his head is a fine place to be.
The ending of How to Find Your Way in the Dark is nothing short of brilliant, making a powerful statement about the need to fully address antisemitism.
Jumping between 1979 and 1999, Lady Sunshine unfolds with an artful combination of lyrical writing and twisting plot.
Monica West’s language is downright musical, pulling readers into this novel of religion, belief and transformation.
Mieko Kawakami’s novel is not a cruel story, but rather one that understands hurt and pain for what it is: universal, unjust and material for new life.
For fans of The Catcher in the Rye, the hero of J. William Lewis’ novel will ring true.
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