Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die.

Wisconsin Author
Collection of short stories about Polish Americans and the blue-collar community in Superior.

Wisconsin Author
Anna Marie Loy comes to Janesville in the late 1930s to flee from a scandal in Liverpool, England. Anna Marie may leave Liverpool for Janesville, but her demons drive her wherever she is.

Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state--called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo--a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.

A mysterious force causes teenage girls to have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death, and the world drastically resets.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often funny story about losing a sister and finding yourself amid the stereotypes of growing up in a Mexican-American home.

National Book Award for Fiction In Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, she uses the archetypal road novel to present an intimate portrait of a family and a journey through Mississippi's past and present, examining the ugly truths at the heart of the American story.

The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans.

Subverts teen detective archetypes like Scooby-Doo and delivers an entertaining celebration of horror, love, friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimensional demon spawn.

Wisconsin Author.
From the bestselling author of Shotgun Lovesongs, a sweeping, panoramic novel about good and evil, family and fidelity, and redemption.

Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined.