Haydu’s wonderful adult debut (after the middle grade fantasy One Jar of Magic) explores the interwoven lives of two families. After free-spirited Joni Dyer moves from Manhattan to suburban Sommersette, Mass., with her husband and their three-year-old daughter, Mae, she becomes best friends... Continue reading »

Time-traveling archaeologist Robert “Rabbit” Ward embarks on a dangerous mission to ancient Israel to aid a mysterious ally in Ludington’s thrilling sequel to Splinter Effect. Helen, an enigmatic fellow treasure hunter whom Rabbit first encountered in ancient Constantinople, has been tasked... Continue reading »

The smart and exciting sequel to Blackgoose’s Nebula Award–winning debut, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath, digs into the colonialism and classism of magic academy and dragon rider tropes. Indigenous heroine Anequs’s Naquisit community on the island of Masquapaug faces increased surveillance from... Continue reading »

Ong debuts with a riveting queer sports romance that deserves a place in the subgenre’s canon. World champion wrestler Caleb Knight, aka the Ice Prince, known for being cold and ruthless, is pitted against cheerful, hardworking newcomer Asher Ross, aka the Dragon, who hopes to claim Caleb’s title an... Continue reading »

The informative and inspiring graphic nonfiction debut by Ukrainian researcher and podcaster Naiem assumes that most readers outside Ukraine know little of its history. In a framing device, a woman named Vika takes shelter from bomb blasts and finds solidarity with her fellow evacuees. From there, N... Continue reading »

The masterful second collection from Dzukogi (Your Crib, My Qibla) draws on the mythic and poetic traditions of northern Nigeria for a lyrical reimagining of the legend of Bayajidda, a prince whose exile from Baghdad leads to his founding of the Hausa States in what is today Nigeria’s predo... Continue reading »

In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »

Journalist Oppenheimer (Squirrel Hill) contends in this impressive biography that Judy Blume “rewired the English-speaking world’s expectations of what literature for young people could be.” Born into a progressive, Jewish family in New Jersey in 1938, Blume followed a traditional path to c... Continue reading »

Emergency medicine doctor Alker (Goodnight Grandma Angel) explores in this witty yet indispensable guide 99 of the “most terrifying, interesting, and unfortunate ways to die.” Drawing on her experience as a “board-certified death escapologist,” Alker assumes the role of a medical translator... Continue reading »

This impressive collection celebrates the life and thought of late progressive Christian author Rachel Held Evans (A Year of Biblical Womanhood). Arranged thematically, the entries critique the evangelical Christianity in which Evans was raised, including the tendency of some believers to v... Continue reading »

In a touching familial picture book from Leung (The Truth About Dragons) and Kang (Our Lake), a rainy evening sees a child considering two nighttime journeys—one past and one present. In a pre-GPS era, an unnamed narrator dutifully navigates their father’s takeout delivery route wi... Continue reading »