Book Review: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin published this in 1969, and it promptly won both the Hugo…
Book Review: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke’s debut took a decade to brew and arrived in 2004 like a fully…
Book Review: The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency by Mandy Morton
Mandy Morton’s Hettie Bagshot Mysteries live in a world entirely populated by cats—no humans, just…
Book Review: The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Eowyn Ivey’s debut (2012) arrived like a quiet snowfall that turns into a landscape—historical fiction…
Book Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
Trenton Lee Stewart’s middle-grade classic (2007) arrived with a charmingly old-fashioned confidence: what if saving…
Book Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Before he was the “guy whose books get turned into very tense TV,” Blake Crouch…
Book Review: Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Shelby Mahurin’s debut arrived with a promise I can never resist: a witch and a…
Book Review: Delirium by Lauren Oliver
Before the YA dystopia craze cooled, Lauren Oliver slipped something unusually lyrical into the mix….
Book Review: The Darkest Powers Series by Kelley Armstrong
Kelley Armstrong cut her teeth writing adult urban fantasy, then turned that experience loose on…
Book Review: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Maggie Stiefvater kicked off The Raven Cycle in 2012 with this strange, gorgeous opener—an Appalachian…
Book Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover’s breakout hit started life as a contemporary romance and became something heavier—a novel…
Book Review: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (1999) is one of those books that quietly rearranged YA. It…
Book Review: Our Fault by Mercedes Ron
Mercedes Ron closes her hyper-addictive Culpables trilogy with a finale that leans into everything the…
Book Review: Your Fault by Mercedes Ron
Mercedes Ron’s Culpables trilogy started life on Wattpad, and you can still feel the cliffhanger…
Book Review: The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Isabel Greenberg’s second book set in her mythic “Early Earth” is a fairy-tale matryoshka: stories…
Book Review: The Institute by Stephen King
Stephen King has a long, spooky history with extraordinary kids—think Carrie, The Shining, Firestarter—and The…