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Thin Girls by Diana Clarke deals with some heavy, important subjects all at once: eating disorders, body image issues/body dysmorphia [...]

I feel rather ambivalent about my reading of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Having read, and enjoyed, Ng’s debut novel Everything...

Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag is a short read that packs a punch. At once dealing with issues of class and feminism, there are many...

What do I really want? That's the question that the unnamed narrator of Chemistry by Weike Wang sets out to answer after she has a...

Sing, Unburied, Sing is Jesmyn Ward's senior novel. While I've had her Hurricane Katrina-related Salvage the Bones on my to-read list for...

Happy 2018, dear readers! As many of you might have done, or may be doing, I am reflecting on my favorite reads of 2017: Burial Rites...

“Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.” There are some books that...

Toni Morrison, born Chloe Anthony Wofford, has written over a dozen different fiction novels and over a half-dozen non-fiction novels in...

It was a plodding journey at times, but I made it through the entirety of Main Street by Sinclair Lewis. While this was a required text...

With a compelling narrative and realistic characters, Nadia Hashimi brings the harrowing experiences of refugees to life in the pages of...

“Family is family. Whether it’s the one you start out with… the one that you end up with… or the family that you gain along the way.” -...

I’m thinking of ending things. It's likely most of us have been in a relationship where we’ve had this exact thought. Maybe things...

After a garden party one hazy summer evening, where her mother had one glass of one too many, a girl goes looking for her older sister....

From the mortal world to the Otherworld, Roshani Chokshi's The Star-Touched Queen will take you on a magical adventure, full of exquisite...

As an ardent fan of murder mysteries, harboring an obsession for true crime TV shows (Snapped, Forensic Files, The First 48, etc.), I was...

Lucas is a seventeen-year-old gringo from Houston, who spends his summers in Puerto Rico with his father, a big-shot developer of...

A small indiscretion. Is there really such a thing? From the synopsis: “At nineteen, Annie Black trades a bleak future in a washed-out...

Angela Davis has been an inmate at Brunesfield, a juvenile detention facility, for three years. She’s a tough cookie who has led a hard...

Dreaming of Antigone is the story of Andria, the girl who dresses all in black; the girl who has a scary illness; the girl whose...

After a very long time, I read a book that I finished in less than 24 hours. That is how engaging The Girl on the Train was. The...