DEEP-SPACE ADVENTURE: A REVOLUTION on a “generation ship” fuses spacefarers and intelligent machines. Exciting! B PLUS

MEDUSA UPLOADED
Tor Books
2018

WHIMSICAL, SERIOUS PARABLE about a sudden change in the animal world. Charming and thought-provoking. B PLUS

DOWNDRIFT (PAPERBACK)
Three Rooms Press
2018

A FATHER AND SON STRUGGLE with the same demons (racism, toxic masculinity, alcohol, depression) in different ways. Clearsighted poet’s memoir. B PLUS

AIR TRAFFIC : A MEMOIR OF AMBITION AND MANHOOD IN AMERICA
Knopf Publishing Group
2018

A WRITER AND HIS BROTHER, bonded by a rough childhood, connect despite very different adulthoods. Lovely, loving memoir. B PLUS

WHAT DROWNS THE FLOWERS IN YOUR MOUTH (HARDCOVER)
University of Wisconsin Press
2018

A WILD FEVER DREAM of a novel takes on revenge, racism, love and hate between women, all in an alternate, apocalyptic America. B PLUS

HEARTLAND (PAPERBACK)
Restless Books
2018

A LIFE DISFIGURED BY FAME: shimmeringly lovely novel tells the story of a celebrated painter’s son. A MINUS

THE ITALIAN TEACHER
Viking
2018

LANGUID, RAW GEM of a novel tells the story of a lost girl and her equally untethered mother in spellbinding prose. B PLUS

GUN LOVE|HARDCOVER
Crown/Archetype
2018

HAUNTING, HEARTSTOPPING SHORT novel about a man lost at sea tells a simple story in spare but luminous prose. A MINUS

COVE (HARDCOVER)
Catapult
2018

FLIPPING THE SCRIPT on “everything happens for a reason”: a divinity school professor’s cancer diagnosis teaches her the inscrutable nature of suffering. B PLUS

EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON (HARDCOVER)
Random House
2018

A HEARTBREAKING, BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR of life on the US/Mexico border by a former Border Patrol agent with deep roots on both sides. A MINUS

THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER
Penguin Random House
2018