JD Scott’s "Moonflower, Nightshade, All the Hours of the Day" is a dazzling collection of stories—part dystopian, part fabulist, and wholly immersive. In the extraordinary novella “After the End Came the Mall, and the Mall Was... Read More

Two small-town lesbians embark on an old-fashioned courtship in Aurora Rey’s heartwarming romance, "The Last Place You Look". After her marriage implodes, Julia moves back to her hometown and goes to work in her parents’ winery,... Read More

Life-changing moments lost, reimagined, and regained form the backbone of John Elizabeth Stintzi’s meditative, lyrical "Vanishing Monuments". Alani is a nonbinary, Minneapolis-based art professor who is forced to return to their... Read More

The futuristic science fiction novel Gravity is Heartless is a fun trip through a climate-changed world. Sarah Lahey’s realistic science fiction novel Gravity is Heartless is set in the near future; it involves a mystery, political... Read More

An uplifting coming-of-age novel in which a high school senior figures out how to be himself, Kim Oclon’s "Man Up" finds David wondering how to come out to his baseball team. Heading into his final year, David is feeling good. He has a... Read More

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s novel "Starling Days" is a gentle treatise on the anatomy of sadness, wherein the many manifestations of modern melancholy raise questions about what it truly means to be “okay.” Mina wants to silence the... Read More

A family grapples with prejudice and impending loss in Carter Sickels’s historical novel "The Prettiest Star". In 1980, Brian ran away from his conservative hometown and arrived in New York City, where he could live openly as a gay... Read More

Hinging on the question of whether it is sometimes necessary to kill in order to stop evil, Walker’s Key is a satisfying and dramatic historical novel. Set in the Florida Keys, Frank B. Haddleton’s suspenseful historical novel... Read More