The Nightingales
The art in Emil Wilson’s monumental graphic novel, The Nightingales, is as tender, messy and raw as the unresolvable feelings of its characters.
View ArticleMurder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
Lucy Foley’s authorized take on Miss Marple is electric, a tightly plotted mystery set firmly in the 1950s that somehow still feels modern.
View ArticleMazywood
A young woman with dreams of stardom makes a wish—and things go downhill from there in Tananarive Due’s terrific, complex Mazywood.
View ArticleAvalon, Rise
Madeline ffitch’s second novel, Avalon, Rise, is a humane and timely work about the turmoil incited when neo-Nazis start gaining power in a fading Appalachian town.
View ArticleCelebrate spooky season with a spine-tingling novel for your book club
Horrify your book club with Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory or Jennifer Thorne’s Diavola. Happy haunting!
View ArticleYou’re the One That I Haunt
A paranormal romance with the feel of a classic rom-com, You’re the One That I Haunt delivers full-throttle charm.
View ArticleTo Our Untamed Core
To Our Untamed Core by Sonido Reyes is both a page-turning adventure and a solemn reflection on power, choices and identity.
View ArticleThe Fantastic Floating Mr. Finnegan
The Fantastic Floating Mr. Finnegan is brimming with charming, clever illustrations that encourage readers to embrace their quirks and value those who celebrate them just as they are.
View ArticleMama Came Callin’
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s smoldering swamp noir takes off from the history of the despicable racist trope of Black children being used as alligator bait.
View ArticleI Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars
In this wrenching, heart-in-your-throat comics anthology, I Won’t Pretend These Missiles Are Stars, 15 cartoonists from Tehran describe living through the 2025 Israeli bombing.
View ArticleHow to Write a Murder
Fans of puzzles, meta storytelling and mysteries about mysteries will devour Jessica Brody’s love letter to classic crime fiction.
View ArticleHappy Snacking, Don’t Die!
Alexis Nikole Nelson, known on social media as Black Forager, pads practical advice and inventive recipes with humor in her vegan cookbook, Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!
View ArticleFemale Life on Planet Earth
It’s really difficult to deliver a complex blend of the personal and the political in fiction. In Female Life on Planet Earth, Laleh Khadivi does it gorgeously.
View ArticleWhat to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast
Caroline Chambers’ What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast is a cookbook for both foodies on the run and people who hate to cook—and everyone in between.
View ArticleThe Art of Fairy Tales
Joanna Ebenstein’s brilliant The Art of Fairy Tales goes much darker and deeper than typical cartoonish tropes.
View ArticleGrim Tidings
B.K. Borison’s grim reaper and guardian angel romance is delicious and will delight readers who want a dash of magic in their love stories.
View ArticleExit Party
Emily St. John Mandel’s Exit Party offers comfort, warmth and diverting strangeness through its unsettling vision of the near future.
View ArticleEnd Times Fascism
Penetrating and sobering, Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor’s End Times Fascism is sure to cause a stir—and that’s the point.
View ArticleShelf Life with John Green: He’s a sucker for cozy mysteries
Ahead of his adult fiction debut, Hollywood, Ending, the beloved YA author John Green lets BookPage in on the secrets of his home collection, and shares some bookstore and library memories.
View ArticleSophie, Standing There
Meg Mason’s vivid Sophie, Standing There is a tribute to literature, relationships and the power of owning one’s experiences.
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