Shelf Awareness

3 weeks ago | shelf-awareness.com | Stephen Jones |Colum McCann |Emma Pattee |Lauren Willig

The Buffalo Hunter HunterShare with friends:Permanent Link:A long-hidden diary in which a Lutheran pastor records a strange confession reveals a mysterious horror with repercussions that span centuries in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, the chilling and original vampire novel from Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians; Don't Fear the Reaper).

1 month ago | shelf-awareness.com | Alice Jolly |Curtis Sittenfeld |Jojo Moyes |Elinor Lipman

Among the noteworthy reading recommendations in this week's issue, we spotlight Markus Zusak's moving and vulnerable memoir, Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth), about the canine members of his family and the challenge of writing about them. In the "lighthearted, humor-filled" Change of Heart, romance author Falon Ballard fabricates a whimsical small town where true love is crucial for one single-minded lawyer to get home to Manhattan. And YA author Emily J.

2 months ago | shelf-awareness.com | Caroline O'Donoghue

photo: Little Blue Canoe PhotographyNancy Reddy is the author of the poetry collections Pocket Universe and Double Jinx, a winner of the National Poetry Series. With Emily Pérez, she's co-editor of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. She also writes the newsletter Write More, Be Less Careful. Her most recent book is The Good Mother Myth (St. Martin's Press, January 21, 2025), which unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.

2 months ago | shelf-awareness.com | Olivia Wolfgang-Smith |Kira Jane Buxton |Ali Smith |Suzanne Nelson

One theme that stands out among many of today's excellent reading recommendations deals with the indelible bonds people form with each other and the places they love. In the poignant and gorgeous graphic memoir This Beautiful, Ridiculous City, Kay Sohini details her fixation on New York City and the allure it held for her, even during her youth in Calcutta.

2 months ago | shelf-awareness.com | Craig Childs

In an ominous indication of the new administration's approach to book censorship, on Friday the new leadership of the Department of Education announced that its Office for Civil Rights has "dismissed" 17 complaints and pending complaints "related to so-called 'book bans' " and said the idea that "local school districts' removal of age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene materials from their school libraries created a hostile environment for students" and constitutes a civil rights...