A. HARROWING MEMOIR OF OCD and recovery captures a terrified, lonely childhood, finding solace in treatment and support groups. B PLUS

BECAUSE WE ARE BAD: OCD AND A GIRL LOST IN THOUGHT|HARDCOVER
HarperCollins Publishers
2018

SPICY SF ROMANCE with a clever setting: a future world run by powerful artificial intelligences inspired by the Ancient Greek gods. Fun and explicit! B PLUS

ADMIN PRIVILEGE (ARTIFICIAL GODS BOOK 1)
Elizabeth Tarington
2017

A BRILLIANT, BITTER TWIST on Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad. Wildly inventive and thoroughly heartbreaking. A MINUS

FRANKENSTEIN IN BAGHDAD (PAPERBACK)
Penguin Books
2018

BEAUTIFUL, SURREAL, POETIC novel from one of Argentina’s greats tells a story of love, outer space, and the preciousness of dreams. B PLUS

THE BOTTOM OF THE SKY
Open Letter Books
2018

A WONDERFUL INTERGALACTIC ROMP stars washed-up British glampunks competing in a universe-wide music competition. So much fun! B PLUS

SPACE OPERA
Gallery / Saga Press
2018

A FAMILY HAUNTED BY MAGIC, generations of women with eerie powers, and a mystical wood add up to a complex fantasy tale. SOLID B

WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (HARDCOVER)
Harper
2018

SHIMMERING, BEAUTIFUL ESSAYS tell stories of love, loss, travel, and the impossible but necessary challenges of translation. A MINUS

FOR SINGLE MOTHERS WORKING AS TRAIN CONDUCTORS (THE IOWA PRIZE IN LITERARY NONFICTION) (PAPERBACK)
University Of Iowa Press
2018

A WONDERFULLY CRAFTED MEMOIR from a Salish Indian writer speaks her anger and grief at personal, family, and cultural suffering. B PLUS

HEART BERRIES|HARDCOVER
Counterpoint Press
2018

A LITANY OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES becomes a joyous though bittersweet hymn to the beauty of life and love. A MINUS

I AM, I AM, I AM (HARDCOVER)
Knopf
2018

KOWLOON WALLED CITY is the center of a near-future work of speculative horror. Great premise marred by unpolished prose. B MINUS

DESPAIR: SHADOWS UNDER KOWLOOON
S.R. Ravencroft
2018