Books We Loved in April 2025, contemporary and historical fiction by Ashley Elston, Elise Hooper, and Alka Joshi

Spotlight Interview with historical romance writer Andrea Pickens, who also publishes mysteries as Andrea Penrose

Books We Loved in March 2025: historical and contemporary fiction by Elyse Durham, Rachel Kushner, and S. G. Maclean

Books We Loved in February 2025, by Ryan Graudin, Heather McBreen, and Andrea Pickens

Spotlight Interview with Claudia H. Long, whose contemporary mystery Murder without a Duck came out in November 2024

Books We Loved in Jan. 2025, by Fiona Davis, Claire Keegan, and Jodi Picoult co-writing with Jennifer Finney Boylan

Books We Loved in December 2024, by Diana R. Chambers, Claudia H. Long, and Breanne Randall

Joan Schweighardt conducts this Spotlight interview with Cynthia J. Sylvester, author of The Half-White Album

Books We Loved in November 2024, by Natalie Brianne, Sebastian Junger, and Julia Park Tracey

Books We Loved in October 2024, by Magda Alexander, Hernan Diaz, and Percival Everett

Spotlight on Minrose Gwin in this interview by Five Directions Press author Joan Schweighardt about Gwin's new novel "Beautiful Dreamers"

Books We Loved in September 2024, by Christina Dodd, Emily L. Finch, and Paul Murray

Books We Loved in August 2024, by Emilia Hart, Kristen Loesch, and the cowriting team of Lynn Morrison and Anne Radcliffe

Spotlight interview with Mary Fleming, whose third novel, Civilisation Francaise, appeared in July 2024

Books We Loved in July 2024, by Eve J. Chung, Kate Parker, and Ruth Reichl

Books We Loved in June, by Audrey Burges, Lauren Kate, and Amor Towles

Interview that shines a spotlight on Shannon Robinson, author of the short story collection The Ill-Fitted Skin

Books We Loved in May, by Cara Devlin, Rachel Joyce, and Curtis Sittenfeld

Books We Loved in April 2024, by Geraldine Brooks, Sandra Byrd, and Abraham Verghese

Spotlight Interview with the memoirist, children's novelist, and micro-fiction writer Faye Rapoport DesPres