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Be Frank With Me: A Novel

By Julia Claiborne Johnson William Morrow, $25.99, 304 pages, Format: Hard (4 / 5) Delightfully comedic, smart, and endearing, Julia Claiborne Johnson’s novel Be Frank With Me is an enjoyable debut...

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Sweetgirl

By Travis Mulhauser Ecco, $26.99, 256 pages, Format: Hard (4 / 5) Travis Mulhauser’s brief debut novel Sweetgirl is a harrowing thriller that packs an emotional punch. In a small town in northwest...

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Sudden Death

By Álvaro Enrigue, trans. Natasha Wimmer Riverhead, $27.00, 272 pages, Format: Hard (5 / 5) The sudden death referred to in Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel is not the literal kind. Mystery and true crime...

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The Good Liar: A Novel

By Nicholas Searle Harper , $27.99, 352 pages, Format: Hard (5 / 5) The Good Liar is a fast-paced thriller that will attract readers instantly. This debut novel will automatically become every reader’s...

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The Children’s Home: A Novel 

By Charles Lambert Scribner, $24.00, 224 pages, Format: Hard (5 / 5) In Charles Lambert’s The Children’s Home, we’re introduced to a solitary, disfigured man with no family or friends, and only a...

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LaRose: A Novel

By Louise Erdrich Harper, $27.99, 384 pages, Format: Hard (4 / 5) Native Americans are disappointingly underrepresented in literature; however Louise Erdrich once again gives voice to Native Americans...

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The Way I Used to Be

By Amber Smith Margaret K. McElderry Books, $17.99, 384 pages, Format: Hard (2 / 5) The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith takes a long term look at the effect sexual assault has on a high school girl....

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Wilde Lake: A Novel

By Laura Lippman HarperLuxe, $26.99, 352 pages, Format: Hard (5 / 5) Wild Lake by Laura Lippman is one riveting novel. Readers everywhere will love reading this book. As a child, Luisa “Lu” Brant knew...

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Arcadia: A novel

By Iain Pears Knopf , $27.95, 528 pages, Format: Hard (5 / 5) In Arcadia, Iain Pears combines the genres of general fiction, fantasy, and science fiction into one, brilliant, cohesive whole. Professor...

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Burning Down the House: A novel

By Jane Mendelsohn Knopf, $26.95, 304 pages, Format: Hard (4 / 5) The Zanes are among New York City’s most powerful families, with a real estate empire and business tentacles that reach far and wide....

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