Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

Wisconsin Author
Two women board a plane, one on a business trip and one fleeing an abusive relationship. After a few days, they text their friends the same strange exact messages about the same man. Then the two women vanish.

Wisconsin Author
An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a Hodag.

Campus police at the UW-Madison are baffled by the discovery of human remains in the attic of the administration building. Visiting professor Nora Barnes connects the bones to the Vietnam-era bombing of Sterling Hall.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

A novel of love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia

Follows a family living on the Texas Mexico border and a curse that reverberates across generations.

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists and kings, embarks on a search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín's most popular work in twenty years.

About a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope curates this anthology of all-new stories of Black horror.

Echoes Frankenstein in this novel of a young woman freeing herself from the confines of the suffocating Victorian society she was created to serve.

Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.

Wisconsin Author
Sheriff Lew Ferris knows how to land a sweet brook trout-but can she catch a cold-blooded killer in the thrilling second instalmentin the Lew Ferris mysteries.