Come for the multigenerational tale of an American family; stay for the refined, luminous prose.

Whitehead’s masterful storytelling, pacing, and plotting makes this harrowing tale based on true events a must-read.

If you love Greek mythology and hybrid genre literature, you’ll love this terrific novel-poem.

Limón invites you to love and notice this world’s delicious fleeting beauties.

Morrison’s stunning, immersive writing explores female friendship as a complex act of self-creation.

If you’re going through the “big stuff” – love, death, grief – pick up this gentle, fierce collection of poems.

This novel is a gothic romance, a haunting story of British colonialism, and a coming-of-age tale all in one.

Mirza explores spiritual trauma, family estrangement, and immigration with compassion and insight. I wept.

Ferrante’s characters feel like real people: she draws each one with a careful, almost biographical attention.

Groff’s dark, strange, delightful Florida speaks to the swamps, gators, and storms of my childhood.

I don’t think I’ll ever really stop thinking about this book.

I read this in early quarantine, March 2020, although it was published in 2017. Ma pulls off a satirical, compelling post-apocalyptic zombie pandemic novel with skill and humor.