Book Reviews – By Genre

Classic Literature

• Lady Susan – Jane Austen
• The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende

Fantasy

• The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge – M.T. Anderson (YA, Fantasy)
• Beware the Night – Jessika Fleck (YA, Fantasy)
• A Curse So Dark and Lonely – Brigid Kemmerer (YA, Fantasy, Retelling)
• Damsel – Elana K. Arnold (YA, Fantasy)
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess (YA, Fantasy, Retelling, Chinese Mythology)
• Descendant of the Crane – Joan He (YA, Fantasy)
• The Guinevere Deception – Kiersten White (YA, Fantasy, Arthurian Legend)
• Iron Cast – Destiny Soria (YA, Urban Fantasy)
• The Left-Handed Booksellers of London – Garth Nix (YA, Urban Fantasy, Historical Fiction)
• The Light Between Worlds – Laura E. Weymouth (YA, Historical Fiction)
• Song of Silver, Flame Like Night – Amelie Wen Zhao (YA, Fantasy)
• Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon – Mary Fan (YA, Fantasy)
• There Will Come a Darkness – Katy Rose Pool (YA, Fantasy)
• Wench – Maxine Kaplan (YA, Fantasy)

Graphic Novels

• Anya’s Ghost – Vera Brosgol (Mini Review, YA, Magical Realism)
• Pantheon – Hamish Steel (Egyptian Mythology)

Historical Fiction

• Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree – Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani (YA, Nigeria, 2014)
• The Downstairs Girl – Stacey Lee (YA, US, Woman’s Suffrage)
• If You Leave Me – Crystal Hana Kim (1950s Korea)
• Nectar in a Sieve – Kamala Markandaya (1900s India)
• Romanov – Nadine Brandes (YA, Early 1900s Russia)
• These Violent Delights – Chloe Gong (YA, 1920s Shanghai)

LGBTQIA+

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post – Emily M. Danforth (YA)

Literature

• All the Ever Afters – Danielle Teller (Fairytale Re-telling)
• The Bees – Laline Paull (Animalia)
• A Burning (Hot Take Review) – Megha Majumdar
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata (Contemporary, Mini Review)
• Diary of a Murderer – Young-Ha Kim (Contemporary Short Stories)
• Girls Burn Brighter (Hot Take Review) – Shobha Rao (Contemporary)
• Home Fire – Kamila Shamsie (Contemporary)
• If I Had Your Face – Frances Cha (Contemporary)
• Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel (Mexican Culture, Magical Realism)
• The Midnight Library (Hot Take Review) – Matt Haig (Contemporary, Magical Realism)
• My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell (Contemporary)
• Pachinko – Min Jin Lee (Historical Fiction)
• Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver (Realism, Nature)
• The Shakespeare Requirement – Julie Schumacher (Contemporary)
• The Water Cure – Sophie Mackintosh (Sci-Fi)
• Women Talking – Miriam Toews (Contemporary)

Middle Grade/Juvenile Fiction

• Amal Unbound – Aisha Saeed (Contemporary)
• Ancestor Approved – Cynthia Leitich Smith (Contemporary, Native American Culture)
• The Gallery – Laura Marx Fitzgerald (Historical Fiction)
• How I Became a Ghost – Tim Tingle (Indigenous Lit, Historical Fiction)
• Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus – Dusti Bowling (Contemporary)
• The Republic of Birds – Jessica Miller (Fantasy)
• The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera (#ownvoices)
• Zero Tolerance – Claudia Mills (School Life, Mini Review)

Mystery

• The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler (Noir)
• The Flight Attendant (Hot Take Review) – Chris Bohjalian (Contemporary, International)
• The Forest of Stolen Girls – June Hur (YA, Historical Fiction)
• How Quickly She Disappears – Raymond Fleischmann (Historical Fiction)
• The Liar’s Girl – Catherine Ryan Howard (Contemporary)
• Pride & Premeditation – Tirzah Price (YA, Historical Fiction)
• The Red Palace – June Hur (YA, 1700s Korea)
• The Silence of Bones – June Hur (YA, Historical Fiction)
• The Traitor in the Tunnel – Y.S. Lee (YA, Historical Fiction)

Non-Fiction

• Ask a Manager – Alison Green (Mini Review)
• Because We Are Bad – Lily Bailey (Memoir)
• Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian – Yusra Mardini (Memoir, Sports)
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Lee Israel (Memoir)
• H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald (Memoir)
• Hidden Figures – Margot Lee Shetterly (Space Exploration)
• Love Your Monsters – Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus (Environmentalism)
• The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong – Lady Hyegyong, translated by JaHyun Kim Haboush (Memoir)
• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – Barbara Demick (Journalism, North Korea)
• Prison Poems – Mahvash Sabet (Poetry Collection, Mini Review)
• Shakespeare Saved My Life (Hot Take Review) – Laura Bates (Memoir, Social Justice)
• They Called Us Enemy – George Takei (Graphic, Memoir, Mini-Review)
• The Things I Would Tell You – Sabrina Mafouz (Anthology-Religion)

Plays

• These Shining Lives – Melanie Marnich (Mini Review)

Romance

• The Bride Test – Helen Hoang (Contemporary)
• Butterfly Swords – Jeannie Lin (Historical, Tang Dynasty)
• The Ex-Talk – Rachel Lynn Solomon (Hot Take Review, Contemporary)
• The Heart Principle – Helen Hoang (Contemporary)
• The Unhoneymooners – Christina Lauren (Contemporary)

Science-Fiction

• The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – Suzanne Collins (YA, Dystopian)
• The Grace Year – Kim Liggett (YA, Romance)
• The Kingdom – Jess Rothenberg (YA, Future)
• The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick (Alternate-History)
• The Queen’s Shadow – E.K. Johnston (YA, Star Wars)
• The Testaments – Margaret Atwood (Future, Dystopia)
• Vita Nostra – Marina & Sergey Dyachenko (Dark Academia)

Short Stories

• Her Body & Other Parties – Carmen Maria Machado (Horror/Sci-Fi, LGBTQIA)
• Stories of Your Life and Others – Ted Chiang (Sci-Fi, Hot Take Review)
• A Thousand Beginnings and Endings – Ellen Oh, editor (Retellings, Diverse)

Young Adult

• 100 Days of Sunlight – Abbie Emmons (Contemporary, Disability Rep)
• Again, But Better – Christine Riccio (Contemporary, Romance)
• Angelfall – Susan Ee (Supernatural, Apocalyptic)
• Asking For It – Louise O’Neill (Contemporary)
• A Castle in the Clouds – Kerstin Gier (Contemporary, Romance)
• The Code to Love and Heartbreak – Jillian Cantor (Contemporary, Romance)
• Dear Martin – Nic Stone (Contemporary)
• Everything I Thought I Knew – Shannon Takaoka (Contemporary)
• Frankly in Love – David Yoon (Contemporary, Romance)
• Hart & Seoul – Kristen Burnham (Contemporary, Romance)
• His Hideous Heart – Dahlia Adler, editor (Short Stories, Compilation, Horror)
• How We Fall Apart – Katie Zhao (Contemporary)
• Moxie – Jennifer Mathieu (Contemporary, Feminism)
• Not Here to Be Liked – Michelle Quach (Contemporary, Feminism)
• The Ones We’re Meant to Find – Joan He (Dystopian, Future)
• A Pho Love Story – Loan Le (Contemporary, Romance)
• Pumpkinheads – Rainbow Rowell (Contemporary Graphic Novel; Mini Review)
• The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss – Amy Noelle Parks (Contemporary, Romance)
• Recommended For You – Laura Silverman (Contemporary)
• Sadie – Courtney Summers (Contemporary, Mystery)
• Yolk – Mary H.K. Choi (Contemporary)
• With the Fire On High (Hot Take Review) – Elizabeth Acevedo (Contemporary, Romance)