Our reviews
117 fiction books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
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Madeleine L'Engle
Best for: Readers aged 9 and up — and curious adults — who are drawn to ideas as much as adventure and want a young adult fantasy that treats cellular biology, classical theology, and cosmic ethics as equally serious narrative languages.
Melissa Roehrich
Best for: Romantasy readers who love dark, enemies-to-lovers series fiction — particularly fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses or Throne of Glass who want a fierce assassin-trained heroine, a possessive Fae love interest, and the promise of a sprawling six-book world to sink into.
James Swallow
Best for: Horus Heresy series readers who want a tighter, more personal story after the sweeping Legion-scale events of the opening trilogy, and who are invested in the long-term continuity of Warhammer 40,000 lore.
Rick Riordan
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged 9 and up who are already invested in the Percy Jackson series and want a quest-driven adventure that deepens the mythology, expands the ensemble cast, and raises the emotional stakes in ways the earlier installments don't.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Best for: Conan Doyle enthusiasts, classic science fiction and adventure readers, and anyone who wants to experience The Lost World as its 1912 audience did — with all 50 of Harry Rountree's original Strand Magazine illustrations integrated into the text.
George R. R. Martin
Best for: Existing fans of A Song of Ice and Fire who have already collected the earlier illustrated editions in the Random House Worlds series and want a visually enriched, permanent hardcover of the fourth book on their shelves.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Best for: Readers new to Sherlock Holmes — or returning fans — who want the most celebrated Holmes novel in an affordable, portable mass-market edition with a professional critical afterword by Anne Perry to frame its place in the mystery tradition.
Tui T. Sutherland
Best for: Middle-grade listeners (roughly ages 8–12) and families already invested in Wings of Fire's first two books, wanting a compact unabridged audio installment in which the series' most underestimated dragonet, Glory, takes center stage.
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
Best for: Book clubs and readers of issue-driven contemporary fiction who want a fast, dual-narrator story about how a police shooting fractures a lifelong cross-racial friendship — and a novel designed to be argued about afterward.
Ellen Marie Wiseman
Best for: Historical fiction readers — especially fans of Wiseman's earlier novels and book clubs — who want slow-burn immersion in an under-examined chapter of American history (Virginia's eugenics-era forced sterilizations) rather than a propulsive plot.
Elle Gray, K.S. Gray
Best for: Binge-readers of crime procedurals who want a new FBI agent to follow across a very long series and like their small-town thrillers fast, familiar, and delivered in volume.
C. B. Ash
Best for: Adventure-fantasy readers who want swashbuckling age-of-sail privateering fused with alchemical transformation magic, an ensemble five-person crew instead of a lone chosen one, and a setting well outside the medieval-European default.
Brad Carson
Best for: Still Standing series readers, or thriller fans willing to start at Book 1, who like conspiracies rooted in land, town politics and place rather than courtroom or espionage spectacle.
Ariel Lawhon
Best for: Readers of historical fiction who want a sweeping, action-forward epic anchored by a formidable real-life heroine — especially fans of The Frozen River curious about Grace O'Malley and sixteenth-century Ireland.
Leigh Bardugo
Best for: Teens and adults who want a morally gray, found-family heist fantasy — and especially listeners who enjoy ensemble audio, since the seven-narrator full-cast production matches the book's rotating viewpoints.
Amanda Skenandore
Best for: Book-club historical fiction readers who want a heroine-centered redemptive arc — a disgraced woman doctor reclaiming her vocation — set against richly researched turn-of-the-century medicine shows and the 1900 Galveston hurricane, in the vein of Kristin Hannah and Ellen Marie Wiseman.
Loreth Anne White
Best for: Readers of multi-POV domestic and psychological thrillers who want morally shaded suburban noir with thematic ambitions — nature versus nurture, redemption, buried family lies — woven through the whodunit, including existing fans of Loreth Anne White's bleaker recent work.
Tui T. Sutherland
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged 8–11 who are already invested in the Wings of Fire saga and want to follow Tsunami's underwater royal adventure in visually immersive graphic novel form.
Robert H. Lustig
Best for: Readers who want to understand the structural and biological mechanisms driving the chronic disease epidemic — not just what to eat, but how the food environment was shaped, who benefits, and what the science shows beneath layers of industry-influenced messaging.
Karen M. McManus
Best for: YA mystery-thriller fans aged 14 and up who loved the social dynamics of Bayview High in One of Us Is Lying and want a propulsive new story set in the same world with a fresh central trio.
Freida McFadden
Best for: Readers who are already fans of Freida McFadden's high-velocity domestic thrillers — or anyone who wants a fast, dark, morally compromised page-turner built around betrayal, suspected poisoning, and a triple unreliable-narrator structure that keeps suspicion in constant rotation.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Best for: Readers aged 12 and up who loved The Inheritance Games and want to dive straight back into Hawthorne Manor for more puzzle-driven intrigue, aspirational drama, and romance.
Terry Pratchett
Best for: Readers already invested in the Discworld City Watch sub-series — especially those who have finished Guards! Guards! — who want to see the Watch ensemble deepen with the introduction of Angua and the franchise's sharpest blend of police-procedural plotting and political satire.
Elle Gray
Best for: Fans of character-driven FBI procedurals who want a fast-moving thriller anchored by a protagonist whose personal grief — a murdered family and a missing sister — is as compelling as the case itself.
