In Chad Corrie’s dystopian novel "As the Sparrow Flies", people fight extinction in the face of a religious war. Elliott is a squire who aspires to knighthood. He hopes to join an army that believes Pyre is the main deity. He thinks... Read More

A girl in a whaling village investigates several disappearances in Crystal J. Bell’s mesmerizing historical novel "The Lamplighter". Even as self-reliant eighteen-year-old Temperance mourns her father, who was hanged, she takes up his... Read More

Two boys survive the world’s end while fighting for their growing romance in Paul Michael Winters’s post-apocalyptic novel "Together in a Broken World". Following global collapse, most of the population is either dead or zombified.... Read More

A girl comes of age via resistance, trespassing into a magical world, in the epic fantasy novel "The Last Refuge". In Christina Bacilieri’s fantasy novel "The Last Refuge", a damaged world is overseen by an autocratic government that... Read More

"The Fallen Within" is a nuanced and complex thriller in which there are no pure heroes or villains. A teenage spy is caught between his twin brother and the organization that raised him in "The Fallen Within", R. S. Twells’s witty and... Read More

"The Book of Daniel" is a unique coming-of-age story that’s steeped in the paranormal. Sean Ian’s imaginative novel "The Book of Daniel" incorporates Gothic horror and the paranormal into an old soul’s coming-of-age story. A New... Read More

Spurred forward by a whirlwind of fights and strange inventions, this climate change-inspired novel introduces its complex world with verve. A tyrannical megalomaniac instigates pollution and interplanetary environmental collapse in R.... Read More

A kingdom’s fate rests on the shoulders of a princess who deals with dragons in Ellen McGinty’s novel "Saints and Monsters". Meera’s back brace and blue hair draw the unjust denigration of others who consider her cursed. She is... Read More