Hopelessness is certainly a theme in We Are Not Like Them, but it’s ultimately about having grace when the people we love make mistakes—even terrible ones.
Readers will easily lose themselves in Rachel Smythe’s dark, often startlingly timely world of sex, lies and immortality.
Bubble explores a world where corporate-funded cities have sprung up as domes of safety, walling off humanity from a monster-ridden wilderness.
Humming with humanity, Ballad for Sophie is a moving portrait of the ways in which art can save us and doom us at the same time.
Weird and wonderful, Revelator is full of surprises both fascinating and stomach-clenching.
If you’re looking for a witchy ride that also has a philosophical soul, grab Slewfoot—and don’t put it down until you’ve finished it.
In Joanne Bischof’s novel, hope and friendship provide the strength to carry on, despite heartbreak and fear of the unknown.
Lauren Groff says she aims to create a sense of wonder and awe in her novels. In Matrix, the awe-filled moments are too many to count.
As in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the characters in Gordo are often poor in economic terms but lead richly complex lives.
Louise Nealon’s Snowflake is one of the most heartwarming, honest and brilliant coming-of-age novels you will read this year.
The sixth novel from award-winning Icelandic author Jón Kalman Stefánsson is the story of a seaside community and its open secrets.
Like Dante leading us through the levels of hell, Colson Whitehead exposes the levels of rottenness in New York City.
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