Today, we’re chatting about a necromancer trying to resurrect her sister who gets embroiled in bigger, world-ending plans instead; a thrill-seeking young woman who joins a radical theater troupe; three estranged high schoolers who are pulled into a video game to pursue the disappearance of their friend; and a professor who learns that an unflattering version […]
Tag: psychological fiction

Booklist Spring & Summer Book Club Picks Webinar Recap (1/15/25)
A big thank you to all who attended yesterday’s Booklist Spring and Summer Book Club Picks webinar! In case you missed it, check out the titles we talked about below, and click this link to watch the recording! HAPPINESS FOREVER by Adelaide Faith | 9780374608668 | 5/13/25 SPEAK TO ME OF HOME by Jeanine Cummins […]

The Debut Review: THE GIRLS OF SUMMER by Katie Bishop
With a dual timeline taking place over the course of one life-changing summer and over a decade later, Katie Bishop’s powerful and unsettling debut, THE GIRLS OF SUMMER, will have readers hooked with its intense atmosphere and electric storytelling. It’s been fifteen years since Rachel was seventeen and spent her summer partying, swimming, and falling […]

New Edelweiss E-galleys (10/5/22)
Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: LOCUST LANE by Stephen AmidonISBN 9781250844231 | on sale 1/17/23 On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, […]

New Edelweiss E-galleys (8/29/22)
Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure: KANTIKA by Elizabeth GraverISBN 9781250869845 | on sale 4/18/23 A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family’s displacement across four countries, KANTIKA—“song” in Ladino—follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. […]

Happy #BookBday (11/7/17 Edition)
Today we wish a happy #BookBday to: A SELFIE AS BIG AS THE RITZ by Lara Williams Pushcart Prize-nominated Lara Williams’ debut story collection is a candid, wry, and deeply moving examination of young women navigating the road map to contemporary adulthood and middle age. “A cleverly written, bracing, and so-readable navigation of modern matters […]