Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah mashes up “Orange Is the New Black,” The Running Man, Gladiator and mixed martial arts into a brutal prognostication of what could be next year’s worst “reality” show.
Some books have the power to wake you up, shake you out of the old and push you toward something new and exciting and a little scary. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself is one of those books.
In his fast-paced debut novel, Zac Topping, who has served two tours in Iraq, focuses on the impact that unrelenting pain and helplessness have on a human’s soul’and how the thirst for power can corrupt the best of intentions.
The fifth novel from award-winning British novelist Ned Beauman is a mid-apocalyptic comic thriller ideally suited for a post-pandemic audience.
Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk is both a dystopian thriller chilled to perfection and an often-touching exploration of the enduring power of parental and filial love.
In her striking multigenerational epic, Vauhini Vara combines three distinct stories into a genre-bending, kaleidoscopic spiral of a tale.
There is no shortage of parenting books on how to be a good mother. Jessamine Chan’s first novel will make you want to throw them all out the window.
In Laura Maylene Walter’s debut novel, palpable anger at injustice is met with love—a fierce, familial and able challenger.
This ain’t no Louis L’Amour tale. Outlawed is a gender-bending, genre-hopping yarn that’s part frontier novel and part Handmaid’s Tale.
One must wonder while reading Fiona King Foster’s first novel, who is truly the captive? There is no easy answer, which makes the novel so beguiling.
Catherine Hernandez’s sharp-eyed, queer dystopian fantasy is no gentle wake-up call. It is a blaring fire alarm against authoritarianism, and transphobia.
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