VIVIDLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL captures the life of an Indian grad student in 1990s New York with heartbreaking precision. B PLUS

IMMIGRANT MONTANA A NOVEL
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
2018

THE VULNERABLE TURN VIOLENT in this exquisitely bleak, deeply insightful story of a cult based at an Ivy-esque college. A MINUS

THE INCENDIARIES (HARDCOVER)
Riverhead Books
2018

A POET’S FEARLESS MEMOIR, filled with fire and sadness, tells of a complicated Black British family bound by love and secrets. A MINUS

THE TERRIBLE (PAPERBACK)
Penguin Books
2018

ELEGANTLY SURREAL NOVEL explores grief and obsession through the eyes of a recent widow visiting Havana. B PLUS

THE THIRD HOTEL
FARRAR STRAUS & GIROUX
2018

A HERITAGE OF VIOLENCE, and its impact on one Black family and their community. Impassioned, insightful. B PLUS

MY BROTHER MOOCHIE (HARDCOVER)
Other Press
2018

COMPLEX PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER about a serial murderer and his onetime teenage accomplice. Deeply chilling. B PLUS

JAR OF HEARTS (HARDCOVER)
Minotaur Books
2018

TENSE, HIGH-ENERGY THRILLER set in a future where mind transplants are common, but not always easy. B PLUS

BETWEEN TWO MINDS: AWAKENING
Hammerstone Creative
2017

MYTHOLOGIZING MARTIN LUTHER: a witty, brilliant, admirably clear look at how people make history (in both senses of the phrase). A MINUS

1517 (HARDCOVER)
Oxford University Press
2017

SHARP, TERRIFYING DOMESTIC horror pits a very troubled, angry little girl against her parents. Compulsively readable! B PLUS

BABY TEETH
St. Martin’s Press
2018

WISTFUL, LUMINOUS NOVEL follows a girl’s unsettled 1980s childhood. Tiny heartbreaks painted in shimmering prose. A MINUS

THE BLURRY YEARS (PAPERBACK)
Two Dollar Radio
2018