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When Stef Penney’s The Tenderness of Wolves, opens, it’s 1867 and winter in Dove River,

The Personal Librarian tells the story of Belle da Costa Greene, hired by J. P. Morgan to serve as the curator and librarian of his newly-constructed Pierpont Morgan Library.

Beasts of a Little Land is an epic saga set during Korea’s tumultuous history of Japanese occupation and the fight for Korean independence.

Australian author, Trent Dalton, is back with another highly imaginative, beautiful yet gritty story full of memorable characters. 

Still Life by Sarah Winman is a love letter to the city of Florence, Italy, its art, and its inhabitants. An ode to chance encounters, love and found family. A delightful story of a tender-hearted English soldier and an eccentric art historian who serendipitously meet on the outskirts of Florence towards the end of WWII. Filled wi

What do you do when your whole world changes? That is the question Vasya must answer in Katherine Arden’s gorgeous story of Russian history and mythology.

Vasilisa Petrovna has always been a strange girl. Everyone in her village says so; her face looks like a frog’s, she runs around in the woods like some sort of wild thing, and she has a habit of talking to the air. What the villagers don’t know is Vasya has the sight and can speak with the chyruthi – spirits of nature and the home. And the chyruthi are afraid.

Brit Bennett‘s debut novel, The Mothers, earned well-deserved attention in 2016. 

Although novelist Mary Beth Keane received strong reviews for her previous publications, The Walking People (200

Written as an oral history of a fictional punk rock duo in the 70’s, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev draws a lot of comparisons to 

For those that are excited about the Shadow And Bone adaptation that is being brought to us by Netflix, we wanted to create a collection of books that you may enjoy if you enjoyed the Grishaverse series!

For curious minds who don’t know what The Grishaverse series consists of:

Kindred, by classic science fiction author Octavia Butler, is a novel about a Black woman from 1970s Los Angeles who finds herself repeatedly pulled back in time to pre-Civil War Maryland, where she must save the life of her white ancestor. While there, she experiences the horrors of slavery first-hand and is forced to make difficult choices in order to stay alive and return home.

Kathryn Stockett’s first historical fiction novel is amazing. It’s about the lives of African American maids/nannies who served white women in the 1960’s, particularly in Mississippi.