Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.

For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl.

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. But as they settle into a life together, Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit.

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.

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.

Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. If you were a fan of the TV series Mad Men, give it a try.

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.