A sincere self-help guide, "Be Who You Came to Be" is flush with morale-boosting advice. Tara Renze’s encouraging self-help book "Be Who You Came to Be" guides women toward becoming their most authentic and fulfilling selves. Asserting... Read More

The notion that all creatures have the capacity to do either harm or good is exemplified in the ecoconscious novel "Uplift". In Jessica Mann’s delicate allegorical novel "Uplift", a bird living in the Anthropocene comes of age and... Read More

Mysterious out-of-towners help a mourning young woman embrace her inner adventurer in "The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace", Megan Okonsky’s joyous novel about coming out and coming of age. Pinky, who was boxed into returning... Read More

A sheltered princess is forced into the spotlight when an ancient enemy resurfaces in Samantha Shannon’s epic fantasy novel "Among the Burning Flowers". A sound like thunder rolls through Cárscaro, the seat of Yscalin. Draconic beasts... Read More

Gigi Little’s novel "Who Killed One the Gun?" is both a hard-boiled detective story and a whimsical, existential meditation on destiny, self-determination, and forgiveness. One the Gun is a private eye tasked with finding the killer of... Read More

In Hiromi Kawakami’s transfixing novel "The Third Love", a Tokyo woman evades unhappy realities through her complex, sensual dreams. Even as a child, Riko was drawn to charming Naa-chan. While the “enfolding warmth” that she felt... Read More

In Grace Chan’s incisive speculative novel "Every Version of You", people seek eternal virtual life, hoping to abandon the physical world for good. In the near future, Earth is increasingly uninhabitable. People who can afford to do so... Read More

Vanessa F. Penney’s magical novel "The Witch of Willow Sound" is about rural prejudice, the wounds of the past, and forgiveness. Pulled from her perambulatory routines by an emergency phone call from her mother, Phaedra travels to... Read More