A widowed scientist and her two daughters find the frozen body of a wholly mammoth.

Maternal ✨ Isolated ✨ Genetic

Has the plot of a Wes Anderson movie

A fictional retelling of Ted Bundy‘s murders from the perspective of survivors.

Speculative ✨ Retrospect ✨ Reclaiming

Had no idea this book was about Ted Bundy until I was halfway through. I wonder if that was intentional or if I‘m just oblivious.

The Price family follows their fanatical father on a religious mission to Congo during a time of political and emotional upheaval.

Post Colonial ✨ Hardened ✨ Absolution

A heavy family saga that is incredibly well written. A cross between Heart of Darkness and Hello Beautiful.

Piglet learns devastating news weeks before her wedding.

Hollow ✨ Unraveling ✨Ravenous

For fans of Milk Fed

One of the best book covers I‘ve seen in a long time!

Desperate to support her brother and the young boy next store, Kiara turns to prostitution and ends up entangled in a scandal.

Oakland ✨ Survival ✨ Moon

A book with an incredible ending.

Violet enters her second year at Basgiath college.

Inconsistent ✨ Pining ✨ Juvenile

Such a disappointing follow up to a fun first book. Violet and Xaden are insufferable. Most of their problems feel self inflicted. None of their decisions make any sense, especially when they sacrifice logic (and keeping everyone else alive!) for their own romantic plot. Overall terrible writing that could‘ve benefited from some editing guidance.

A marginalized town of Jews and blacks band together to save a young boy.

Community ✨ Unity ✨ Chain Reaction

The classic graphic novel providing a darker take on the superhero genre through the lens of political and nuclear turmoil.

Alternate History ✨ Nihilism ✨ Doom

For fans of The Boys and the darker DC comics

Alison Bechdel‘s coming out story is intertwined with revelations about her father.

Shame ✨ Closeted ✨ Paternity

Jack and Elizabeth reevaluate their marriage in the face of modern love and childhood trauma.

Placebo ✨ Happiness ✨ Marriage

Evie Porter gets sent on a job that might be her last.

Cat and Mouse ✨ Alias ✨ Betrayal

An average thriller that is overhyped.

Susannah Breslin‘s memoir about her life as an emerging writer, and reflections on being part of UC Berkely‘s Block Study.

Musings ✨ Aimless ✨ Eugenics

A memoir that is more about writers‘ block than the Block Study.

Jean M Twenge, PhD reviews year-over-year data to better understand what makes each generation unique.

Culture ✨ Technology ✨ Impact

An interesting concept that felt bogged down by personal opinion and self fulfilling conclusions.

June Hayward steals her friend‘s posthumous manuscript, and poses it as her own work.

Fraud ✨ Moral Authority ✨ Authorship

A clever, meta portrayal of cancel culture, race, and the publishing industry.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real life “final girl.” Years later, she and the members of her Final Girl Support Group find themselves hunted once again.

80s Core ✨ Slasher ✨ Visceral

For fans of classic horror films and WTF moments

Yayoi sets out to find her flighty aunt, and returns with memories of her past.

Family ✨ Loneliness ✨ Lost

This book was meandering and I didn‘t feel like it had a point. I also think part of the story was distorted or lost in its Japanese to English translation.

TFTOP is supposedly the first book in a new series, but about 50 pages in I realized it‘s actually a continuation of The Shades of Magic trilogy. As someone who didn‘t read the original books, I felt lost. The book is probably more entertaining if you read the prior stories first.

World Building ✨ Political ✨ Abilities

A critical overview of Latin America‘s history, and the foreign interference that has negatively impacted its development.

Like The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying, this book is meant to spark discussion and for the reader to derive their own meaning.

Dense ✨ Economics ✨ Socialist

A woman seeks to escape her depression in the desert.

Fever Dream ✨ Meta ✨ Spiritual

Violet Sorrengail joins hundreds of students training to become dragon riders.

Exciting ✨ Tropes ✨ Steamy

Mia‘s father is missing, and only her nonspeaking brother, Eugene, knows what happened.

Voice ✨ Neurodivergent ✨ Analytical

Despite breaking up five months prior, Harriet and Wyn pretend they are still a couple in order to salvage a week long getaway with close friends.

Summer ✨ Pining ✨ Found Family

For fans of Friends (the show) and every Emily Henry book written

A wife reflects on her marriage, chronicling the wayward steps she takes to maintain her husband‘s interest.

Possessive✨ Neurotic ✨ Toxic

A retelling of Charles Dickens‘ David Copperfield against the setting of rural West Virginia

Appalachia ✨ Rise and Fall ✨ Cycles of Abuse

The story of Andrew Bevel and his wife, Mildred Bevel, told from 4 different points of view.

Literary ✨ Fabrication ✨ Story Within a Story

A group of four friends with different backgrounds join Babel (Oxford‘s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation), but are soon torn apart by war.

Academia ✨ Appropriation ✨Moral Qaundry

Alex drifts from home to home in the Hamptons plotting her next move.

Transient ✨ Leech ✨ Drifter

Despite having Red Blood, Mare Barrow discovers she has Silver Blood powers.

Young Adult ✨ Love Triangle ✨ Royal

The story of the Padavano sisters and William Waters

Family ✨ Grief ✨ Generations

For fans of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A wife, a husband, and the wife‘s best friend destructively navigate their ever changing dynamic over the course of 24 hours.

Jealousy ✨ Perspective✨ Short

Five years after their mother‘s disappearance, Zadie and Finn set out to discover what happened to her.

Mystical ✨ Migration ✨ Memory

Leah Kempler moves to Wisconsin to begin her MFA, and falls in love with a recovering heroine addict.

Codependency ✨ Addiction ✨ Perception

A prequel to the Hunger Game trilogy, following Coriolanus Snow and his transformation from ambitious student to murderous villain.

Ambition ✨ Human Nature✨ Origin

Comedy writer, Sally Milz, catches the eye of a pop music superstar.

SNL ✨ Pandemic Setting ✨ Simple

Budding author, Isabelle Manning, learns her late mother ghost wrote her father‘s best selling novels.

Ambition✨ Legacy ✨ Deception

Interconnected lives grapple with the invention of a new app that uploads memories.

Authenticity ✨ Isolation vs Connectivity ✨ Vignettes

A memoir by Dolly Alderton in which she reflects on love, friendships, and growing up in her late teens, twenties, and early thirties.

Friendship ✨ Intimacy ✨ Self Realization

After finally moving out of her childhood home, Maddie must learn how to reconcile her identity as both a twenty-something in the UK and an obedient second generation Ghanaian daughter.

Slice of Life ✨ Growing Pains ✨ Womanhood

Two Puerto Rican sisters from Staten Island think they have spotted their missing third sister on a trashy reality show years after her disappearance.

Family ✨ Snarky✨ Startling

For fans of The Jersey Shore (and shocking endings)

An interwoven story centering on the residents of an affordable housing unit in Vaca Vale, Indiana and a shocking act of violence that pulls them all into each other‘s orbit.

Weird ✨ Classism ✨ Loneliness

For fans of the Bell Jar…but honestly, I don‘t think I‘ve ever read or watched anything like this.

Jamaica Kincaid‘s short, but powerful reflection on her home country of Antigua.

Literary ✨ Corruption ✨ Cynical

For fans of Toni Morrison, and the books you analyzed in college/high school (hopefully)

Two lonely and bored teens befriend each other for a summer and accidentally cause one of the country‘s biggest panics.

Nostalgia ✨ Domino Effect ✨ Summer

For fans of That 90s Show

A moving story of a 12 year old girl trying to find meaning in the unexpected death of her best friend.

Friendship ✨ Loss ✨ Loneliness

For fans of Eight Grade (the movie)

A group of young girls grapple with the disappearance of the local preacher‘s daughter.

Lurking ✨ Loss of Innocence ✨ Blurry

For fans of The Diary of a Teenage Girl

This isn‘t a book I can review in the conventional sense. It‘s meant for the reader alone to interpret and make their own meaning.

Emotional ✨ Connected ✨ Legacy

The heartbreaking finale to the Beartown Series.

For fans of Friday Night Lights…and crying.

Elizabeth Zott masters chemistry and home economics to prove women are anything but average.

Feminist ✨ Quirky ✨ Feel Good

For fans of WandaVision

Sneha, a young twenty something, navigates love, friendship, family, and self discovery in 2008 Milwaukee.

Aimlessness ✨ Millennial ✨LGBTQ

For fans of books about the regular-ness of life (I.e. Writers and Lovers)

An expose on the secretive Sackler family and their decisive role in the opioid crisis.

Corruption ✨ Avarice ✨ Investigative

For fans of Succession

Three individuals struggling to adjust to life after traumatic events find purpose in beekeeping.

Rustic ✨ Healing ✨ Function

For fans of Remarkably Bright Creatures