Havenfall by Sara Holland
★★★☆☆ Maddie wants nothing more than to be named the successor to Havenfall: the inn connecting our world to hundreds more. But when her beloved uncle falls ill, she’s thrust into the role too...
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All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins
★★★★☆ When Vetty Lake finally moves back to her home town after her mother’s death, she must learn how to reconnect with old friends while acknowledging they are all now different people. At the...
The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala
★★★☆☆ Split into a prism of countless fractured narratives, Marcial Gala’s The Black Cathedral pieces together the story of the religious Stuart family, who moves into the neighborhood of Cienfuegos, Cuba to begin construction...
The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
★★★★★ Set on an unforgiving island in Finmark, Norway, The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a chilling feminist thriller that happens to also be well-researched historical fiction, based on the real-life witch trials...
Indelicacy by Amina Cain
★★★★☆ There’s a terrific 1939 painting by Edward Hopper called “New York Movie.” It’s divided, though not quite halved, into two fields: on the left of the canvas, the shadowy elegance of a mid-century...
Abigail by Magda Szabó
★★★★★ Fourteen year-old Georgina Vitay feels her life is over: her father, a decorated General in Budapest, has decided to send her to boarding school. To Gina, the Bishop Matula Academy (a traditional, religious...
The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood
★★★☆☆ They call us the Dead. Inside the Ark, the survivalist cult in The Poison Garden, main character Romy and her siblings are taught that all outsiders will be killed in an imminent but...
Just Kids by Patti Smith (Illustrated Edition)
★★★★☆ On a sunny summer Monday in 1967, Patti Smith arrived via Greyhound in New York City. She took the subway from Port Authority in Manhattan to Dekalb Avenue in Brooklyn, where friends she...
The Gnome Stories by Ander Monson
★★★★☆ “Unless you’re a freak,” Ander Monson writes in his freakishly good short story “Our Song,” “you don’t remember books word for word. You remember what they were to you, what you brought to...
