Shelf Awareness

4 weeks ago | shelf-awareness.com | Honor Jones |Domenica Ruta |Ocean Vuong |Garrett Carr

Sometimes I fantasize about getting away from it all. Grow a beard, don floral prints, and become a bartender in some hidden dive with a thatched roof and lounge music. And yet, Fever Beach is the first Carl Hiaasen novel I've ever read. Did I realize that he writes hilarious and engrossing crime novels about wacky Floridians and the state's breathtaking wildlife?

2 months ago | shelf-awareness.com | Kevin Nguyen |Kevin Nguyễn |John Kenney |Andy Anderegg |Annika Norlin

Tomorrow is the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day! The event began in 2014 as California Bookstore Day, and has since grown in popularity to be an international celebration. It's a perfect day to support local bookstores, even stores that aren't participating. Many avid readers visit as many indie bookstores as they can in a single day. While you're out partying with your favorite booksellers, be sure to look for exciting new releases like The Trees Are Speaking by Lynda V.

Mar 27, 2025 | 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).

Feb 28, 2025 | 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.

Feb 19, 2025 | 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.