HIGH-ENERGY SUPERNATURAL THRILLER pits super-powered secret agents against creepy horrors. Lots of fun! B PLUS

STILETTO
Little, Brown and Company
2016

A VERY ENGLISH FANTASY blends the world of 1920s Oxford with the oldest legends of pre-Roman Britain. Wow! B PLUS

THE WOLF IN THE ATTIC
Solaris
2016

A LOVE LETTER TO LATIN, and to learning new things after fifty, is also a charmingly frank memoir. B PLUS

LIVING WITH A DEAD LANGUAGE: MY ROMANCE WITH LATIN
Penguin Publishing Group
2016

A HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELIC DRUG culture (and the larger counterculture) eccentrically orbits The Grateful Dead. B PLUS

HEADS
Da Capo Press
2016

A STINT IN “EX-GAY” THERAPY, described with wrenching honesty and a wealth of compassion. B PLUS

BOY ERASED
Penguin Publishing Group
2016

FASCINATING, THOUGHTFUL MEMOIR of a childhood spent in the Transcendental Meditation community in Iowa. B PLUS

GREETINGS FROM UTOPIA PARK: SURVIVING A TRANSCENDENT CHILDHOOD
HarperCollins
2016

WELL-CRAFTED HORROR tale centers on a house’s malign influence on a neighborhood. Clever premise, prose. B PLUS

HOLLOW HOUSE
Omnium Gatherum
2016

FAST-PACED PARANORMAL THRILLER with a wicked sense of humor mixes aliens, vampires, and a surfer heroine. B PLUS

DAY FOR NIGHT
Vagabondage Press
2016

DELIGHTFUL SUMMER READ stars a Gen X mom getting her groove back amid sandwich generation chaos. B PLUS #BeachReads

BY THE NUMBERS
Penguin Publishing Group
2016

INCISIVE YET LYRICAL novel captures Berlin and Chicago in the 1980s through the eyes of a gay Black writer. B PLUS

BLACK DEUTSCHLAND
Farrar
2016