An engrossing, imaginative novel set around an experimental hospital unit, "House of Open Wounds" explores weighty questions about the scars upon those who heal others. In a... Read More

In Sally Gardner’s fantastical novel "The Weather Woman", gender, societal recognition, and family inheritance lead to precarious circumstances in Victorian London. Neva,... Read More

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The City of Lost Chances is a gritty adventure fantasy of uncommon breadth, fashioning a universe brimming with magic and treachery. Illmar was recently... Read More

Four people will determine the fate of multiple worlds in A. G. Riddle’s "Quantum Radio". All Ty ever wanted was to use science to unlock the universe’s secrets. But after a... Read More

Defne Suman’s epic historical novel "The Silence of Scheherazade" chronicles the fall of the Ottoman Empire as experienced by four Turkish families. Dense with rich... Read More

Although science fiction imagines diverse, imaginative, and frightening futures, genre anthologies rarely achieve the brilliant range and diversity of voices of The Best of... Read More

A royal couple fights to preserve their magic and their way of life in Terry Goodkind’s fantasy epic The Children of D’Hara. The D’Haran Empire is finally at peace. Its... Read More

Dana Stabenow’s fifth book in the Liam Campbell series, "Spoils of the Dead", involves secrets from the past—and an inexplicable murder in the present. Liam hasn’t even... Read More

Kate Young’s cookbook addresses twinned appetites: for rich reading, and for seasonal flavors, from blood oranges in icy winters to vibrant rhubarbs at the first sign of... Read More

Cutting satire and humorous jeremiads expose the hypocrisies of keeping up with the Joneses in Erlend Loe’s novel "Doppler". After his father dies, Andreas Doppler suffers a... Read More

In Michael Fishwick’s "The White Hare", local legend has it that a woman who dies abandoned by her lover can return in rabbit form to seek revenge. Who this woman might be and... Read More

Suffering from Game of Thrones withdrawals? The latest book in A. J. Smith’s twisted fantasy series, "The Dark Blood", has enough renegade clerics, murderous assassins, and... Read More