With literary finesse, the novel leaps through its wild moments with ease. Erica Abeel’s bright and brainy "Wild Girls" follows three friends from their 1950s days at “prestigious but offbeat” Foxleigh College, through the decades... Read More

This is a joyful and intelligent adventure, populated by honorable thieves and winsome misfits. André Alexis’s "The Hidden Keys" is set in the back alleys and concealed corners of Toronto, places populated by honorable thieves and... Read More

Gripping from beginning to end, "The White Devil" is an unforgettable novel by an author at the height of his powers. Domenic Stansberry’s thriller "The White Devil" shows a masterful touch for perspective and character, unspooling a... Read More

This sharp, chromatic elegy for childhood offers an insightful look at the complexities of inherited grief. "The Land South of the Clouds", by Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith, charts a lost son’s turbulent course from an immigrant neighborhood... Read More

This atmospheric novel is all about valuing women’s ideas, stories, art, and bodies. Pushcart Prize finalist Bev Jafek’s "The Sacred Beasts" is a fiercely feminist novel that makes space for women’s stories and art in the midst of... Read More

Raw, unfiltered humanity comes through this novel that draws upon Homer’s epic. Like the ancient tale of the great warrior Ulysses whose journey home from war was filled with twists and turns, "Ulysses Dream" is a bold, personal, and... Read More

For fans of Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum, "Disruption" is an absolute yes. Things that thriller novels are not: politically correct. Things that thriller novels are: fast-paced, sweat-inducing, heart-pumping. "Disruption", the latest... Read More

"Totem" is a solid work of science fiction and a creative take on the dystopian novel. In "Totem", Darin Bradley builds a future in which a city’s residents deal with the danger of ever-present radiation and the knowledge that their... Read More