To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, all happy villages are alike and all unhappy villages are unhappy […]
Thin Girls, by Diana Clarke
Trigger warning for depictions of eating disorders and domestic violence. Even if you’ve experienced mental […]
A Burning, by Megha Majumdar
In an unnamed Indian city, a teenaged girl becomes a scapegoat for a terrorist attack. […]
Homeland, by Fernando Aramburu
In 2012, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) announced a ceasefire that, so far, appears to have […]
The Yield, by Tara June Winch
Yield is one of the first words in one of the documents—a dictionary and family […]
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We can all agree that seeing people’s pets in online meetings is one of the […]
The Paris Library, by Janet Skeslien Charles
Being a teenager sucks. I certainly wasn’t fond of it. Like Lily, one of the […]
Keep Saying Their Names, by Simon Stranger
Trigger warning for torture and rape. In a narrative that strongly reminded me of HhHH, […]
The Sun Down Motel, by Simone St. James
For me, a big part of the attraction of true crime is seeing the killer […]
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The Librarian Shipwreck breaks the librarian code of silence (shh!) to reveal what’s really happening […]