Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love (Gallery Books, 2021) I was sort of angry when I read the synopsis for To Sir, With Love by Lauren Layne....

As we approach the last full month of summer (and where did those last two months go?), we still have time for long, lazy days of...

Linda Browning, It Otter Be a Crime (Amazon, 2021) If you enjoyed the Emmy-award-winning The Golden Girls TV series back in the day, then...

Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (Henry Holt, 2021) I read Shadow and Bone after watching the fantasy Netflix series of the same name. It’s...

Chang-Rae Lee, My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) My Year Abroad is divided into chapters describing narrator Tiller Bardmon’s life...

Anne Louise Bannon, Death of the Zanjero (Healcroft House, 2018) It’s 1870, and Maddie Wilcox, a young widow supporting herself by...

Nina Bocci, The Ingredients of You and Me (Gallery Books, 2020) Miscommunication is a commonly used plot device in romance novels, and if...

Lots of good picks here, and—if you enjoy historical fiction set in a lesser-known time and place (sixteenth-century Russia), don’t miss...

Ilona Andrews, Emerald Blaze (Avon, 2020) Catalina Baylor is the titular Prime of House Baylor, where she and her crew, including her...

Rachael Bloome, The Secret in Sandcastles (Secret Garden Press, 2020) This novel, the third in Rachael Bloome's Poppy Creek series,...

Jennifer Ashley, Death below Stairs (Berkley, 2018) When Galit Gottlieb, the host of New Books in Literature and a mystery writer...

Books We Loved in October by Catriona Innes, Patricia Morrisroe, Eleanor Parker Sapia, and G. Willow Wilson.

Books We Loved in September 2020: Heather Bell Adams, Linda Kass, Madeline Miller, and Tea Obrecht

Books we loved in Aug. 2020: P.K. Adams, Emily Martin, Deb Olin Unferth, and Heather Webber

July picks: Eliot Pattison, Kate Quinn, Erika Rummel, and Sarah-Jane Stratford

Books we loved in June by C.W. Gortner, Kathleen Jennings, Toni Morrison, and Anne Tyler

Books we loved in May: Amy Brill, Colleen Hoover, Carolyn James

Book reviews: Ahern, Roar; Coates, Pelton Papers; Cummins, American Dirt; Lynch, Grace