AN 18TH-CENTURY MEDICAL MARVEL, transformed into not just a masterful historical novel, but a timely parable about the limits of enlightenment. A MINUS

MARY TOFT; OR, THE RABBIT QUEEN
Pantheon
2019

BRILLIANTLY HUMDRUM EXISTENTIAL fable about women with boring jobs and unsatisfying lives, with incisive humor and spot-on observation to add some spice. B PLUS

THE NEW ME
Penguin Books
2019

WARM-HEARTED STEAMPUNK SUPERNATURAL creates an alternate England with little refuge for a traumatized veteran of an imagined war to end all wars. Lovely, compassionate writing. A MINUS

THE APPLE-TREE THRONE
Premee Mohamed
2018