Like Family (2025) Erin O White "A tender portrait of how we claim, wound, and love one another. At turns heartwarming, funny, and even cutting, but always true - a lot like family."
Housemates (2024) Emma Copley Eisenberg "Warm and inviting . . . Eisenberg captures the complexity of both people and places with precision and generosity."
The Stone Home (2024) Crystal Hana Kim "Propulsive and unflinching, Crystal Hana Kim deftly balances the factual and emotional truths of a vivid setting and cast of characters. The Stone Home is a raw, authentic, and empathetic look at a little-known piece of history - everyone should read it."
Lucky Red (2023) Claudia Cravens "Lucky Red is the Western I never knew I needed-where all the most fascinating misfit characters usually pushed to the fringe take their rightful places center stage. Cravens strikes the perfect balance here-queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story."
Biography of X (2023) Catherine Lacey "A triumphant high-wire act: all the breadth of a 19th century classic with the propulsiveness of a psychological thriller. I stayed up too late, wishing to uncover X's secrets alongside the narrator."
Brotherless Night (2023) V V Ganeshananthan "Brotherless Night is my favorite kind of novel, one so rich and full of movement that it's only later I realize how much I have learned. V. V. Ganeshananthan drew me in from the very first line, and the intricacies of her characters' lives made it easy to stay."
Mercury Pictures Presents (2022) Anthony Marra "Smart, heartfelt, and sneaky funny, Mercury Pictures Presents has all the breadth and power of an epic, and the attention to detail of an intimate conversation. I read it in a state of admiration for the beauty Anthony Marra has wrung from the English language."
Don't Say We Didn't Warn You (2022) Ariel Delgado Dixon "A self-assured debut that explores complicated bonds of sisterhood, Don't Say I Didn't Warn You strikes the perfect balance of a story that feels both singular and universal. Dixon is a talented writer with a fresh voice that had me hooked from the first page."
Empire City (2020) Matt Gallagher "Empire City is a dark, nimble book that pulls no punches. While the novel tracks an alternate historical reality, time and again I found myself taken aback at just how prescient and applicable its insight is to our very real present. Gallagher once again establishes himself as a preeminent voice in American writing."
American Spy (2019) Lauren Wilkinson "American Spy is by turns suspenseful, tender, and funny, always smart and searingly honest. Lauren Wilkinson renders the world of spies with vivacity and depth, and shines a penetrating light on what it's like to be a black woman in America. But like all great novels, this one teaches us most about ourselves and our values."
