Category Archives: Fiction

A classic coming-of-age story, from introvert Charlie’s perspective, about the ebb and flow of high school.

A crime thriller that is also a survey of struggles: between identities, families, cultures, and the groups we form.

2054 is a political sci-fi thriller, set a few decades in the future, after a war between the U.S. and China completely blows up the current political order.

The Rock Eaters is Brenda Peynado’s beautiful collection of short stories, and it spans a wide range of issues–immigration, class differences, xenophobia, debt and more–and often has a touch of magical realism.

The archetypal modern African novel that contrasts life in precolonial Africa with the colonialism that followed.

Still Alice is the story of a highly accomplished woman slowly sinking into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and how it affects her thoughts, feelings, and relationships with friends and family.

The unpredictable and remarkable life of chemist-turned-TV-star Elizabeth Zott, and how she confronts the 1960s perceptions of women.

An uncommon romance that illuminates the warmth of human relationships, with the Flint water crisis looming in the background.

The Order is a mystery book set in 16th century Europe that unfolds into a commentary on Christianity and what it truly seeks to accomplish.

A George Saunders short story about a fox who adores humans until he gets to know humans.