Reading Alice Elliott Dark‘s second novel is a transportive experience, similar to spending several long, luxurious summers on the shores of a picturesque Maine peninsula.
With haunting prose and deeply atmospheric descriptions, Conner Habib‘s Hawk Mountain is a disturbing descent into the convulsions of the human mind and heart.
The complexity of Sister Mother Warrior suits the complicated, difficult history of the Haitian revolution, which Vanessa Riley brings to life through the stories of a soldier and a future empress.
Katherine J. Chen‘s Joan leaves behind the pious maiden, her visions and voices. This Joan of Arc is hungry, earthy and scrappy—a natural fighter.
There‘s joy to be found in the struggle, and Eleanor Brown‘s novel about an unusual adoptive family is a thoughtful exploration of this truth.
A quick read with irresistible charm, Margarita Montimore‘s Acts of Violet is a comfort book in every sense of the word.
The fifth novel from award-winning British novelist Ned Beauman is a mid-apocalyptic comic thriller ideally suited for a post-pandemic audience.
Within the bruised and bruising world of Christine Kandic Torres‘ novel, two girls find that being harassed, belittled or ignored is just part of life—until one of them can‘t take it anymore.
In her fierce debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan captures the exhausting trauma of being looked at but never seen, and the courage it takes to live loudly and take up space.
In Yerba Buena, her first novel for adult readers, Nina LaCour captures all the aches and hurts and betrayals and sensual delights of being in your 20s.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut novel, Woman of Light, retains a mythic quality while following a woman’s journey to claim her own life in the land occupied by her family for generations.
With a light touch, Tom Perrotta raises thoughtful questions about the true measure of success in Tracy Flick Can’t Win, his memorable return to the heroine of Election.
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