CLEVER APOCALYPTIC HORROR tale resonates with larger issues of racism, sexism, motherlessness, and family. B PLUS

REENU-YOU
Book Smugglers Publishing
2017

NOBODY DOYLES IT BETTER! Lyndsay Faye’s Sherlock Holmes short stories are intriguing and just delightful. B PLUS

THE WHOLE ART OF DETECTION: LOST MYSTERIES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (HARDCOVER)
Mysterious Press
2017

EXTRASENSORY PHENOMENA, GOVERNMENT-STYLE! Comprehensive history of the US’s ESP experiments is fascinating. B PLUS

PHENOMENA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT’S INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOKINESIS
LITTLE BROWN & CO
2017

AN ENGLISHWOMAN TURNED JIHADI finds life on the Islamic revolutionary front disenchanting. Fascinating novel. B PLUS

JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE (PAPERBACK)
Interlink Books
2016

INTENSE, CANDID MEMOIR of losing and finding love, family, Native heritage, and especially self. Raw, deep. B PLUS

ABANDON ME: MEMOIRS
Bloomsbury USA
2017

THE DOLLOP’S IRREVERENT, FUNNY takes on some of United States history’s weirdnesses. Stranger than fiction! B PLUS

THE UNITED STATES OF ABSURDITY : UNTOLD STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Ten Speed Press
2017

A LOVE LETTER TO FAMILY and food, with a candid exploration of coming out, and of living with mental illness. B PLUS

NOTES ON A BANANA : A MEMOIR OF FOOD, LOVE AND MANIC DEPRESSION
HarperCollins
2017

A FATHER’S BITTER OBSESSION, his sons’ desperation to escape the poverty of their Mumbai slum, and cricket. B PLUS

SELECTION DAY (HARDCOVER)
Scribner Book Company
2017

HARDBOILED AUSTRALIAN NOIR set on a seedy resort island, last-chance posting for a disgraced, addicted cop. B PLUS

DRAINLAND: TUNNEL ISLAND BOOK 1
Lamb House
2016

A DELICATE NIGHTMARE OF A NOVEL, weaving complex horrors from family and love and nature. B PLUS

FEVER DREAM (HARDCOVER)
Riverhead Books
2017