Aniana Del Mar Jumps In by Jasminne Mendez
Aniana Del Mar Jumps In is a touching middle grade novel written in verse by Jasminne Mendez that features a twelve-year-old Dominican American girl passionate about swimming. In The Author’s Note,...
Category: Fiction
My Friends by Hisham Matar
Let’s start with the cover of this 2024 National Book Award finalist which was longlisted for both the Booker Prize and The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, named Best...
The Furies by John Connolly
The title of this novel, The Furies, refers to the goddesses of vengeance in Greek mythology. Also known as the Erinyes they punished crimes against the natural order, particularly matricide and...
Held by Anne Michaels
Held achieved the Booker Prize shortlist in 2024 along with the novels: Creation Lake, Orbital, James, The Safekeep, and Stone Yard Devotional, with Orbital ultimately winning the Grand Prize. The Booker...
Lost Places by Sara Pinsker
Lost Places is Sara Pinsker’s second fiction short story collection. It earned finalist for Slate’s best of the year and Book Riot’s Best Fantasy Books of 2023, among other awards. Of...
A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry
If you’re very fortunate, all a fairy will ask of you will be to steal a bone from a grave. They need them to grow buildings for the Children’s Quarter in...
The Vaster Wilds: A Novel by Lauren Groff
Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff is a stunningly shocking fever dream, a narrative that “follows a girl’s escape from a nameless colonial settlement into the unforgiving terrain of America.” [NY Times]...
Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls
During her Politics and Prose presentation, Jeanette Walls states that she always thought of herself as a journalist and “truth teller,” in other words, a memoirist, biographer, or journalist. As time...
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes, in her new novel A Thousand Ships, explores the Trojan War through the experiences of the goddesses, princesses, Amazons, townswomen, and captives who in some cases drove it forward...
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
Eddie Robson has written four science fiction novels: a comedy conspiracy thriller called Tomorrow Never Knows (2015), Hearts Of Oak (2020), a weird tale of architecture, alienation and talking cats, Drunk...
