Liese O’Halloran Schwarz’s novel juggles a complex story and structure, creating believable characters in its portrait of a family shattered by loss.
Jane Johnson’s latest novel is beautiful story of love, loss and pain, bouncing between wartime memories of the 1940s and present day.
Viola Ardone’s novel will appeal to fans of Elena Ferrante, but it stands on its own as a fictionalized account of a complicated social experiment.
An abandoned English manor house sets the stage for a cracking mystery involving a missing friend and a long-lost diamond necklace.
Through vivid and emotional imagery, Waiting for the Night Song speaks to the power that a place and its people can have over your life.
Ashley Audrain’s gripping debut is proof that in the hands of the right storyteller, even the most compact novels can be works of great complexity.
Like James Baldwin or Toni Morrison, Robert Jones Jr. gets to the root of some of our culture’s thorniest problems through specific, accurate storytelling.
If you’re the type of reader who self-soothes by losing yourself in a book, French author Cathy Bonidan’s novel is just what the doctor ordered.
Two lexicographers employed by the same company and separated by a century are at the heart of this imaginative, funny, intriguing novel by Eley Williams.
In perfectly Austenesque style, Molly Greeley imagines a backstory of the Pride and Prejudice character Anne de Bourgh, and it’s a perfectly joyful read.
Like a wise and imaginative teacher, Kristin Hannah imbues past events with relevance and significance in her novel The Four Winds.
Reading The Center of Everything is like traveling further and further into a dream, spiraling around fragments toward a point of love and wonder.
One must wonder while reading Fiona King Foster’s first novel, who is truly the captive? There is no easy answer, which makes the novel so beguiling.
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