BOOKLOVES

Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family is a genre-defying, darkly hilarious crime novel that doubles as a scorching critique of wealth, power, and the dysfunctions stitched into the fabric of family. Stylish, provocative, and disturbingly intimate, the novel masquerades as a confessional memoir from an imprisoned young woman who—ironically—is not guilty of the murder […]

Maxym M. Martineau’s House of Blight is a hauntingly immersive gothic fantasy that breathes new life into familiar tropes through its profound emotional stakes and exquisitely slow unraveling. The first novel in The Threadmender Chronicles duology, it presents a world where magic is both a blessing and a burden—and where healing might kill you faster […]

Morgan Dick’s debut novel “Favorite Daughter” is a riveting exploration of family dysfunction, addiction, and the possibility of redemption that manages to be both darkly humorous and deeply moving. With razor-sharp prose and unflinching honesty, Dick introduces us to half-sisters Mickey and Arlo, two women who’ve never met but are unwittingly thrown together by their […]

In Hell Bent, the second installment of Leigh Bardugo’s Alex Stern series, the gates of Hell are not merely metaphorical—they’re real, and Galaxy “Alex” Stern intends to walk through them. Set in the cloistered, elite, and arcane world of Yale’s secret societies, this sequel escalates everything Ninth House began: the mystery, the horror, the urgency—and […]

Funmi Fetto’s Hail Mary – Stories arrives as a fierce, necessary voice in contemporary literary fiction, mapping the emotional cartography of Nigerian womanhood with a clarity that stings and heals. In these ten interconnected but independent stories, Fetto refuses any neat resolution. Instead, she immerses readers into the inner and outer lives of women standing […]

In Andres Felipe Solano’s evocative novel Gloria, time doesn’t flow chronologically but rather pulses in waves of memory, carrying readers through five decades and across continents as a mother and son navigate lives connected by a shared city but separated by years. This is not simply a linear narrative but an impressionistic portrait of a […]

Heather McGowan’s Friends of the Museum is a dense, clever, and emotionally rich novel that captures the beautiful chaos of institutional failure. Set within a prestigious New York City museum on the brink of reinvention—or collapse—it follows a cast of characters whose personal and professional lives unravel over a single day. With sharp humor and […]

Melissa Arnot Reid’s debut memoir “Enough” offers readers something rare in mountaineering literature – a journey that extends far beyond the physical challenge of scaling Earth’s highest peaks. While the memoir certainly delivers breathtaking accounts of high-altitude climbing, its true elevation comes from Reid’s unflinching examination of her interior landscape. Here, she maps the treacherous […]