A CROSS-COUNTRY HORROR TALE, rich with spooky detail, and with a beautiful love story at its heart. B PLUS

ALICE ISN’T DEAD
Harper Perennial
2021

CLEVER, DISTURBING FABLE of celebrity culture and romantic obsession. Thoughtful and precise prose redeems any hint of soap opera in the plot. B PLUS

DREAM SEQUENCE
Farrar
2019

FIGHTING GODS AND MONSTERS and saving the world: a big task for an odd assortment of blessed and cursed entities. Wildly entertaining fantasy! B PLUS

THE LAST SUPPER BEFORE RAGNAROK (GODS AND MONSTERS #5)
Abaddon
2019

NEAR-FUTURE DREAM TECHNOLOGY offers powers that can be used to help—or to harm. Spooky SF thriller with heartbreaks along the way. B PLUS

THE DREAM MAKER: A SCI-FI THRILLER NOVEL
Igor Bedê
2019

A WRITER WITH SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER shares her challenges and joys in navigating a world where schizophrenia and psychosis are brutally misunderstood. A MINUS

THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS
Graywolf Press
2019

THE MARVEL OF PRIMATE EMOTIONS, as shown in observation and behavioral experiments, recounted by distinguished scientist and master storyteller Frans de Waal. Fascinating! A MINUS

MAMA'S LAST HUG (HARDCOVER)
W. W. Norton & Company
2019

HAPLESS INTERDIMENSIONAL DETECTIVES try to solve mysteries and mend rifts between multiverses without losing their sanity or friendship. Fun comic SF! B PLUS

DUCKETT & DYER: DICKS FOR HIRE
dSdF
2019

A HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES combines scholarly depth and breadth with an engaging, readable style, and points out some unsettling trends. B PLUS

CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES (HARDCOVER)
University of Chicago Press
2019

AN INCARCERATED WOMAN’S STRUGGLES, both unique and sadly familiar, are at the center of this delicate, heartbreaking English novel. B PLUS

ALL THE GOOD THINGS (PAPERBACK)
Europa Editions
2019

A SPACE CARNIVAL’S “FREAKS” go to battle in rebellion against an intergalactic megacorporation. Imaginative, thought-provoking, epic. B PLUS

JACK JETSTARK’S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW
World Weaver Press
2018