Fiction & Literature: Reader's Advisory

Wisconsin Author. Madison College instructor.
In the latest Bad Axe County series, Sheriff Heidi Kick struggles to prevent a radical religious sect from turning her county into the next Jonestown, all while a dark secret from her past puts her life in danger.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Short stories of Afghan characters both in their homeland and America grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. In this contemporary debut novel, Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband's infidelity and attends his twenty-year high school reunion.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her.

Wisconsin Author
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST. Graduating into an American recession, Sneha moves to Milwaukee for an entry-level job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door.

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus

Wisconsin Author
Offers a kaleidoscopic, highly entertaining portrait of a Chinese American family in Haven, Wisconsin grappling with the dark undercurrents of a seemingly pleasant small town.

Offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an Artificial Friend and explores the fundamental question of what it means to love.

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Follows the aftermath of a crime in a small, close-knit community

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they're both desperate to find

Wisconsin Author
From the acclaimed author of We Ride Upon Sticks comes a novel that moves across a windswept Mongolia, as estranged twin brothers make a journey.

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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.

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.