We Used to Live Here is a masterfully crafted, labyrinthine, hallucinatory nightmare about a young queer couple, Eve and Charlie, who buy an old Victorian home in the gloomy Pacific Northwest with plans to flip it. The house has beautiful…
This novel-in-verse shares responses to a question asked to a middle school class - if your house was on fire, what is the one thing you'd save? Their answers make a linked poem that is funny, touching, sincere, and imaginative,…
An Iranian American young man - a poet and recovering addict - travels to New York City to recover information about his heritage and the meaning of a "good death." I enjoyed this book immensely. Every word was intentional, the…
The Burning Side, Sarah Damoff’s sophomore novel, is a deeply layered family drama that is tender, heartfelt, and devastating in the best of ways. Damoff has a unique ability to write characters who feel authentic and relatable. The storyline explores…
The fast-paced plot of this immersive fantasy is filled with twists that will keep you guessing until the very end of the novel. The characters are deeply complex, and often morally gray, which leaves the reader questioning their motives. The…
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, the newest novel by New York Times bestselling author Heather Fawcett, is sure to delight readers who fell in love with the magic and charm of her Emily Wilde series. Agnes Aubert has dedicated her…
This book is a gentle imagining of a future in which people and robots live separately and explores the question about what we need to live and live well. The world of this story is so interesting, the non-binary main…
A mystery fiction university club becomes the focus of their very own whodunnit when they take a group trip to an island which was the scene of a grisly unsolved murder six months earlier. Two mysteries are woven together in…
After the recent loss of her husband and the disappearance of her son thirty years prior, Tova Sullivan gets a job at the Sowell Bay Aquarium to keep herself occupied. She makes an unlikely friend in Marcellus, the aquarium's intelligent…
Leigh Bardugo crafted a spell-binding dark academia that explores the secret societies of Yale university through the imperfect protagonist Galaxy Stern. Alex's narrative snakes between the present and her past, which hounds her incessantly. I finished the book on a…