Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

Wisconsin Author (Madison College instructor)
A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric mystery.

Wisconsin Author
Reese's Book Club Pick
Emily is having the time of her life in the mountains of Chile with her friend when something terrible happens, something that happened before.

2021 National Book Award Winner
The stories of an African American author out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his novel, a young Black boy named Soot living in a rural town in the recent past, and a possibly imaginary child named The Kid all converge.

Wisconsin Author
Three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, Cloud Cuckoo Land is set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now.

Wisconsin Author
In 1945 sixteen-year-old ruffian Milo Egerson is shipped to his great-uncle Ham's farm in rural northwestern Wisconsin, where he has to deal with his his just-released from prison stepfather.

Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease.

Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award, a poignant novel about a woman searching for her place in the world and finding it in the daily rhythms of life in rural Indiana.

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.

Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. During the tournament, Samuel receives news from home: A civil war is raging across South Sudan, and rebel troops have ran­sacked his village.

YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange.

A young woman's crush on a privileged former classmate becomes a story of love, lies, and dark obsession, offering stark insights into the immigrant experience.

Wisconsin Author
For Sabrina Monroe, moving back home to the Wisconsin Dells means returning to the family curse: spirits who come to them for help with unfinished business.

Wisconsin Author
Set in Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers High School field hockey team will do anything to make it to state--even if it means tapping into devilishly dark powers.

Wisconsin Author
Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is studying for a biochem degree.

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities.